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Get them Graphing! |
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Encourage students to make a chart of their fluency scores and take ownership in how to improve their accuracy. Emphasize that score reflects accuracy, not just speed. (Editable Chart) |
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Podcasting! |
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Using a free program like "Audacity" can get kids involved in their own reading expression and accuracy. (See Audacity Tutorial for more info!) |
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Book Reviews |
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Remember those clips on Reading Rainbow that made you want to read those books? Encourage kids to create their own Book Reviews where they summarize the book and recommend it to others. Reviews could be given orally in front of a group, as a podcast online, or even use Microsoft PhotoStory. |
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Read It Again, but this time as... |
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Ask students to get into character, change their accents, impersonate a historical figure, and jazz up their reading for a small group or partner. |
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Friendly Competition |
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Provide students with stopwatches and let them score each other on practice probes. (You could even incorporate math by having them find the mean, median, mode, and range of their own data!) |
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Record it! |
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Invite students to read and record stories to share with other students. Other students can listen and practice their own reading skills. |
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Stretch-Your-Vocabulary! |
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Provide students with a place to write "new" words they come accross. It's not just important to know the definitions, but how the words relate to each other, what they mean, what they don't mean, and any roots involved. Don't just provide students with a list of words, let them discover new ones on their own. |
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Tell Me a Story |
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Provide each student in the class with 3 index cards. Ask them to write down a setting on one, a character description on another, and a prop on the last one. Example: They may write..
Setting: "The desert on a dark night."
Character: "A tiny alien just arrived from Mars. He is purple, small, and has a loud voice."
Prop: "A piece of celery."
Collect each card group separately and make a "Setting" stack, "Character" Stack, and "Prop" Stack. Have partners or small groups draw one of each card, set the timer for 5 minutes and have them create a story that includes all three elements.
Super challenge: Have students draw more than one character card or more than one prop card! |
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Dare To Compare! |
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Pick two random, unrelated nouns. Ask students to take 3 minutes to write down everything they have in common. Students can also partner up and take turns saying what the items have in common, the first partner that can't come up with one is "out". Example: Tree and Shark: Both are pointy, both need water to survive, both can die. |
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Analogies |
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Ask kids to solve them and ask kids to write their own! Some resources for analogies here. |
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Beat Poetry |
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Students select poems or write their own to perform for each other. Set up a Poetry Cafe like Mrs. Newingham and have a poetry performance. |
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Reader's Theatre |
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Create Your Own: Provide students with a story and ask students to create a Reader's Theater with it. Partners or small groups will need to decide on characters, summarize the story into a "smaller" version, and create each line in the script. (Tips and Getting Started with Scripting) |
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Scripts Online |
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Free Scripts and Teacher's Guide |
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Timeless Teacher Stuff |
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Scripts and Plays |
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Aaron's RT Page |
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