Reading Strategy Activities
Reading Strategy Activities:
ABC Summarizing
Instructor: Nancy Willard
MED/552
September 14, 2014
Reading Strategy Activities
Reading activities for emergent readers can be challenging and fun at the same time. The reading activities can be used before, during and after the story. There are many resources and ideas to make reading fun: word sort, KWL Charts, pictures, story wheels, PowerPoint presentation, graphic organizers, discussion Prompters, whiteboard retelling, readers theater, journaling and draw your favorite part of the story.
Since I am a kindergarten teacher, most of my readers are emergent and I need to use non-writing strategies to help foster interest in literacy—one of my favorite is “abc summarizing.” Reading Strategy Activity: ABC Summarizing
Materials
A list of alphabet written vertically
IPad/Apple TV.
A list of questions
Pencils
Crayons
Blank journaling paper
Procedure:
This activity is used as an assessment and to summarize after the story is read to the students
Have a typed alphabet list, vertically leaving space to write down the student’s answers.
Compile questions that follow the alphabet.
Project the list on the IPad/Apple TV.
Review the story with the students.
Ask students the “B” answer question. It can be a phrase of sentence beginning with that letter of the word that is related to the topic.
Then one with a “C” answers and so on, except for the vowels.
First group breakout session: When the group has completed all the consonants, divide the students into groups of 5. In the groups they are to illustrate the words associated with the story that starts with the vowels: A,E,I,O,U. You may need to help with the “U”
As the student start to discuss the story, they will find more than one answer for each letter.
Some letters are difficult, be creative: Xtraordinary, for example.
When the alphabet list is completed, bring the students back in the circle and have them discuss
ABC Summarizing
Instructor: Nancy Willard
MED/552
September 14, 2014
Reading Strategy Activities
Reading activities for emergent readers can be challenging and fun at the same time. The reading activities can be used before, during and after the story. There are many resources and ideas to make reading fun: word sort, KWL Charts, pictures, story wheels, PowerPoint presentation, graphic organizers, discussion Prompters, whiteboard retelling, readers theater, journaling and draw your favorite part of the story.
Since I am a kindergarten teacher, most of my readers are emergent and I need to use non-writing strategies to help foster interest in literacy—one of my favorite is “abc summarizing.” Reading Strategy Activity: ABC Summarizing
Materials
A list of alphabet written vertically
IPad/Apple TV.
A list of questions
Pencils
Crayons
Blank journaling paper
Procedure:
This activity is used as an assessment and to summarize after the story is read to the students
Have a typed alphabet list, vertically leaving space to write down the student’s answers.
Compile questions that follow the alphabet.
Project the list on the IPad/Apple TV.
Review the story with the students.
Ask students the “B” answer question. It can be a phrase of sentence beginning with that letter of the word that is related to the topic.
Then one with a “C” answers and so on, except for the vowels.
First group breakout session: When the group has completed all the consonants, divide the students into groups of 5. In the groups they are to illustrate the words associated with the story that starts with the vowels: A,E,I,O,U. You may need to help with the “U”
As the student start to discuss the story, they will find more than one answer for each letter.
Some letters are difficult, be creative: Xtraordinary, for example.
When the alphabet list is completed, bring the students back in the circle and have them discuss