Adjusting Reading Rate

Adjusting Reading Rate

Adjusting Reading Rate This activity teaches students to monitor the relative difficulty of text, and to adjust their reading rate to support comprehension of text at various levels of difficulty. The activity allows students to practice metacognition and...
Adjusting Reading Rate

Movie Poster

Movie Poster Movie Poster is an activity where students create a poster about a text that includes a main graphic image, a tagline, and a quote from a critical review. Each element of the movie poster should be selected carefully and deliberately to accurately...
Adjusting Reading Rate

Acronym Mnemonics

Acronym Mnemonics Through this activity students create acronyms to assist in remembering a process, list, or set of facts. This process develops students’ metacognition, and helps them to become more mindful and effective in their studying. CONTENT AREA ELA, Math,...
Adjusting Reading Rate

Sketch to Sketch

Sketch to Sketch In this activity, adapted from Kelley’s Comprehension Shouldn’t Be Silent (2007), students will draw an image from a story the teacher reads aloud. The purpose of this activity is to help build listening comprehension and improve visualizing and...
Adjusting Reading Rate

Most Valuable Idea

Most Valuable Idea In this activity, adapted from Gallagher’s Deeper Reading (2004), students will identify the most valuable idea in a reading, find an article that relates to that idea, and make a connection between the text, the article, and the student’s own life....