Reading Activities

Reading Activities (由台北市立中正高中李壹明 Joe 老師提供)

Pre-reading (lead-in) activities 

1. Speed chatting 

2. Topic-based discussion/Conversation

3. Information Gap

4. Give one, Get one

5. KWL chart

6. pre-reading quiz/Survey

7. English songs

8. News in levels

9. Prior knowledge map (Keywords brainstorming/Mind mapping)

10. Video Viewing

11. 4-P Chart (Preview-Predict-Prior Knowledge-Purpose)

12. Making Predictions Chart

13. Entry ticket

While-reading activities (bottom-up: sentence pattern)

1. Creative writing

2. Scenarios

3. Information gap

4. Kahoot!

5. Tic Tac Toe

6. Rotation

7. Make sentences until you drop

8. Make a sentence and sign your name

9. Using Dixit/Picwits to make sentences

10. Sentence pattern interview

11. Shoot for points

12. Board games (Snakes and ladders)

13. Find the missing piece

14. Jeopardy

15. Who wants to be a millionaire?

16. Are you smarter than a primary school student?

17. Sentence race

18. Words to sentences

19. Unscramble the sentences

20. Fold and Pass

While-reading activities (bottom-up: vocabulary)

1. Using Dixit/Picwits to make sentences

2. Vocabulary/Phrase/Interview hot seat

3. Tic Tac Toe

4. Rotation

5. Make sentences until you drop

6. Make a sentence and sign your name.

7. Quizlet (APP)

8. Two-sentence definition

9. Four Square (Frayer model)

10. Kahoot!

11. Taboo

12. Scrabble

13. Bananagrams

14. Hangman

15. Word Wheel

16. Vocabulary photo album

17. Word sneak

18. Comic strip

19. Creative writing

20. Information gap

21. Shoot for points

22. Board games (Snakes and ladders)

23. Jeopardy

24. Who wants to be a millionaire?

25. Are you smarter than a primary school student?

26. Story cubes 

While-reading activities (top-down) (1)

1. Retelling a notification passage

2. Four square plus one

3. Think marks

4. 6 thinking hats

5. SOAPStone

6. Fish Bone (Graphic Organizer: cause and effect)

7. Venn diagram (Graphic Organizer: comparison and contrast)

8. Question creation chart

9. Sum-it-up

10. Outline (Topic sentence-Supporting sentences-Concluding sentence)

11. Semantic Web (Topic sentence-Supporting sentences-Concluding sentence)

12. Making inferences

13. Creating headlines for paragraphs

14. Question-Answer Relationship (QAR)

While-reading activities (top-down) (2)

1. Differentiating fact from opinion (Facts or opinions)

2. Jigsaw reading (Unscrambling the sentences/paragraphs)

3. Think-Pair-Share (TD)

4. See-Think-Wonder-Connect

5. See-Think-Do-Care

6. Reciprocal learning

7. Literature circle

8. SQ3R/SQ4R

9. Interrupted conversations

10. Reading lines-Reading between lines-Reading beyond lines

11. Making text connections

12. Kahoot! 

13. Comic strips

14. Running dictation

Post-reading activities 

1. Writing a 60-word essay/reflection

2. Writing a travel blog

3. Discussion and reflection (speaking)

4. Recasting the text

5. Responding to the text

6. Just the facts, Ma’am.

7. Dear classmate (Writing a letter/an email/a postcard)

8. Dear Diary

9. Interview questions

10. Creating a billboard/an ad

11. Creating a comic strip

12. Creating a scrapbook

13. Role-playing (skit) 

14. Exit slip (Exit ticket)

15. Chalk talk

16. News reporting