Independent Reading-Resources

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7 Independent reading activities to increase literacy

 

Scholastic-teaching content

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Reading Rockets- 103 things to do during or after reading

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Epic- Log in

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DEAR Time/Literacy Ideas

 

Ways to access books

• Google

• LEAP Website (virtual books)

• NHFPL

• www.freechildrenstories.com

• Audiobooks

• Youtube

• National Geographic Website

• Counselor record themselves reading books for kids

• EPIC

• New Haven Reads

• you can tape yourself on screencastify so students can have bedtime stories or whenever they choose to hear stories 

 

Fun ways to ensure they are reading

• Read the same book (Reciprocal teaching strategies)

• Questioning (favorite part, characters)

• Draw out their favorite part of the story and share

• Popcorn Reading

• Vocab Word Games

• Vocab Activities based on text

• Book Talk- Share their book (Persuade other kids to read the book)

• Make a flipgrid about your book

• Write about book - Make real world connections

• Literature Circles 

• Bookclubs

• Write an alternative ending to the book

• Comparing and contrasting books and movies

• Counselors read too!!!

• Breakout rooms

 

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