READING+STRATEGIES


 * __Reading Strategies __**

19. __Reader’s Theatre (Coach Melodrama__)

a. Make a novel/text/lecture come to life by adding actors and props! Students follow along novel/text with their finger and pause to enjoy the student actors. b. One variation is to have students take a either a live ‘snapshot’ or a photograph of a moment in the novel/lecture to reference and use as a talking point later on. c. I like to tell my students they are on a soap opera and have to over act everything. At times I’ll whisper direction in their ear, for example, ‘get down on one knee!’. For students not ready to talk on speaking roles, we lip-sync! I stand behind them and tap their shoulder, at which point they begin mouthing words while I say them from behind.



20. __Running Dictation*__

 a. Pull sentences from a text, history quotes, math formulas, etc. write them down on poster paper and hang them in the hallway outside your classroom. In pairs, one student will stay in the room and be the scribe, the other person will run outside, read one of the posters, run back inside and dictate to the partner. Switch. //(Props to Meredith Richmond)//



__21. Thought Bubbles, Dialogue Bubbles * __

 a. Just like you see in the cartoons, create thought or dialogue bubbles for your students to hold up in class. Use common expressions, famous quotes, or specific target vocab. Students hold up the thought or dialogue bubble when appropriate during class. //(Props to Jason Fritze)//



 22. __Who Said that? *__

a. Following a story/novel/lecture create sentences that specific characters/famous people would say along with a list of the characters/famous people. Read each line and ask the kids, ‘who said that?’ Place the one-liner next to the characters names as they are identified. //(Props to Jason Fritze)//

//* denotes a strategy that could be applied to almost all content areas. //