Below is a selection of activities to help students develop various non fiction and fiction reading strategies. All of these tasks are based on the First steps reading resource.
These can be used as stand alone whole class lessons or as individual, differentiated tasks.
Click on the links to view a description of the task and downloadable task sheets and scaffolds.
| Predicting | Crystal Ball |
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| Connecting |
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| Comparing | Just like | Double Entry Journal | Venn Diagram |
| Inferring | DIRDS |
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| Synthesising | Turning on the lights | ||
| Creating images | |||
| Self questioning | BDA Questions | Clouds of wonder | |
| Skimming |
Sneak Preview |
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| Scanning |
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| Determining importance | |||
| Summarising | Famous 5 key word search | 66 Word Summary | |
| Locating Information | Google Quest (2 periods-great for subs) |
Literature Circles/Cooperative Reading Groups
There are a number of different roles students may take on during reading group lessons. Descriptions for each of these roles and downloadable task cards can be found below:
- Discussion Director
- Text analyst
- Summariser
- Connector
- Passage master
- Word Wizard
- Questioner
- Illustrator
Ready made lessons:
- Skimming, Scanning, Speed Reading, and Narrative reading: – What are these four types of reading? When do we use these, and why?
Ms Favilli's G5 Digital Desk 