by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
In this activity students will preview a text and develop questions they think might be answered in the text. They will then see if the text answers their questions. The purpose of this activity is for students to anticipate what they will read and to generate...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Prewrite Questions In this activity students survey the text and create questions they think the text was designed to answer. During reading, students will try to answer their questions. The questions help set a purpose for reading. This activity works particularly...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
Draw-Label-Caption This activity, where students draw and label a key scene in a text, works well as a pre-writing activity, and also as a reading comprehension activity. It helps students to develop a detailed visualization of a setting, and to attach words to the...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
This activity, adapted from Barton and Heidema’s Teaching Reading In Mathematics (2009), helps to lead students through the process of solving a mathematical word problem. Using a written guide, students focus on thinking about the problem at three levels: first...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2020
In this activity students will preview a text and develop questions they think might be answered in the text. They will then see if the text answers their questions. The purpose of this activity is for students to anticipate what they will read and to generate...
