During+Reading

//This page contains links to ideas and information for during reading/listening/viewing activities.//toc

=Purposes of During Reading Activities:=


 * **A**pply reading strategies
 * **B**reak up (scaffold) the text
 * **C**ritically process the content/meaning of the text (literally and in connection to students' personal lives)
 * **D**iscuss academic content of the text (develop interpersonal communication skills)
 * **E**valuate comprehension

= **During Reading/Listening/Viewing Activity Ideas:** =
 * **Checklists** - Mark off items from a list when you hear them during the text


 * **Choral Repetition** - Chant a repeated phrase each time it comes up in the text


 * **Cloze Passages** - Fill in missing words while listening to or viewing a text (usually with targeted grammatical structures or vocabulary topics)


 * **[|Compare & Contrast]** - Students compare and contrast how two characters, situations, or texts are similar and different


 * ** Dramatize ** - Act out passages from the text


 * **Drawing** - Color or draw a picture according to the description in the text


 * **Graphic Organizers** - Synthesize or summarize the text using a graphic organizers


 * **Highlight** - Mark unknown words/segments as they read, then after reading, pair up and guess meaning from context


 * **Illustrate** - Illustrate an assigned chapter or segment from a text. Class then summarizes/retells the events which occurred using the illustrations as prompts


 * **Journals** - Jot down meaningful quotes from the text and react to them in journals; keep a journal from the perspective of one of the characters/speakers, write an explanation of an event from the point of view of another character, write letters among characters at critical points in the story


 * **Manipulatives** - Move items according to the action in the text (paper dolls, scenes, etc.)


 * **Make Connections** - Make connections between prior knowledge and content of the text


 * **Maps** - Draw a map as described in the text, map the story, trace a character's journey on a map


 * ** [|Opinion/Proof] ** - Students make assertions or list personal opinions about a topic or text, then search the text for "proof" they can use to support their assertions


 * **Paraphrase** - Paraphrase sections of the text


 * ** [|QAR] **


 * **Questions** - Generate questions about the text


 * **[|Reading Comprehension Strategies]**


 * **[|Responding to Non-fiction Template]**


 * **[|Scavenger Hunt]** - Locate key ideas, words, or evidence for a particular argument in the text


 * ** [|Selective Underlining] ** - Teach students to read purposefully and strategically using this strategy


 * ** [|Semantic Feature Analysis] ** - Students complete a chart with +/- to indicate whether or not the characteristics on the list are present for each character or text


 * **Sequence** - Sequence images or events from the text as they appear


 * **Signal Cards** - Hold up relevant images, objects, or words when they are described in the text


 * **[|Sound Effects Read Aloud Activity]** - From the Comprehensible Classroom (See also [|Auditions for Sound Effects Read Aloud])


 * ** [|SQ4R] ** - Students survey the text, ask questions about it, read, recite, relate the text to themselves, and review


 * **Subtitles** - Divide the text into structural segments and create a subtitle for each


 * [|**Text Rendering Protocol**]- Students identify the sentence that means the most to them, then their favorite phrase, then their favorite word


 * **[|Think-Pair-Share]** - Good for periodically processing the text


 * **[|Three-minute Pause]** - Summarize, add own thoughts, generate clarifying questions


 * **[|Venn Diagram]** ([|2], [|3], [|with summary]) - Compare and contrast textual elements


 * **Visualize** - Visualize or illustrate portions of the text


 * ** [|Vocabulary Word Map] **