Reading Activities for Your Classroom

welcome back educational rockstars in today's video we are going to dive into

some activities you can implement in your classroom to create Rock and

readers and foster a love of reading stay tuned

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welcome back rockstars I'm Farrah and here at missions classroom we strive to

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amazing community reading is a vital part of Education we hear it all the

time every teacher is a reading teacher no matter what subject you are teaching

if you are looking through scientific facts you're reading learning about the

first person to walk on the moon you're reading discovering whodunit and a Hardy

Boys story you're reading reading is everywhere so we have to make sure we

are turning our students into Rock and readers a great way to do that is

through the use of reading activities whenever we are reading in the class we

are reading teachers therefore every time we read in class we as educators

have the opportunity to transform our little readers into Rock and readers

there are so many reading activities out there but here are a few activities you

can do with your students to make the most out of reading every time to begin

you want to make sure you're starting at the very beginning according to Julie

Andrews that's a very good place to start when you start reading with your

students you want to begin with the basics when you're learning your ABCs

learn it to a classic tune or find some rockin music that sets a beat to the

ABCs in fact one of my favorite ways to practice the ABC song is not the

traditional way that we learned it as children if you do a really quick

youtube search and learn the ABC songs the way that we teach our ESL students

in a VIP kid classroom you'll see that we changed the tune in the beat up a

little bit so that when students get to the part where they say LM and o P

they're not saying LMNOP once you have learned the basic letters take time to

look at phonics spending time on these basic skills is so important to your

young readers if you know students struggle with sounds like CH or

th make sure you focus on these phonetic sounds when you read there are so many

phonics games available in Miss Shipley's classroom online store that

will give your students the practice on the phonics skills that they are

struggling with another way to enhance reading is by introducing sustained

silent reading into your classroom sustained silent reading is taking a

certain amount of time out of your day to work with a few students two or three

who need extra help and while you're working with these students the others

are reading silently how do you make sure your students are actually reading

when they're supposed to be using reading response sheets in your

classroom when students do have sustained silent reading time provide

you with a system in place to make sure they are staying on task check out the

link below to check out our reading response sheets in our shop if you have

students who struggle with reading guided reading is a great activity to

protec in guided reading looks like this one pick up a piece of text that relates

to what you are reading or pick a class novel that you're going to read with

your students write up the questions on the board or project them so students

can see them read the story out loud and stopping to discuss the questions you've

displayed or to discuss the difficult idea or concept guided reading is a

great way to make sure your students understand the text and it creates so

many teachable moments if you're looking for guided reading activities you can

find our guided reading with total physical response in our free resource

library at Misha pleased classroom I'll leave the link down below one of the

best reading activities or reading strategies I have used in my classroom

is the idea of close reading in a close reading you ask the students to

experience the text at least three different times when I use this in my

classroom I followed this process I have my students read first for basic

comprehension and unknown vocabulary then second during the second reading I

ask them to take note of a certain concept we are covering whether that's a

character development theme or another literary element finally the third time

I have them analyze the text explaining why they believe this is the theme or

how the character developed throughout the story using close reading in my

classroom was a game-changer for my students they became more thoughtful

while they were reading and didn't hesitate to go back and

reread when necessary you can use close readings in a variety of ways for a

variety of topics if you want to just implement close reading in your

classroom check out our year-long close reading bundle over in our shop where

you're going to get ten units of ten different titles each that are

differentiated to three different reading levels I'll leave the link below

in the description sometimes we get so caught up in identifying all the points

of the plot and the character development we forget that reading

should be fun therefore I encourage you to choose a

read aloud that's fun or novel that's fun to share with your students sure you

can and should talk about the different elements of the text but make fun the

focus while you're reading this class novel having a shared reading experience

will really help you later when students are reading their own books because

you'll have a reference point I have found that finding a good series and

only reading the first one to your students sparks the need to know what

happens next this need can turn a non reader into a

reader even if just for one little bit there are so many fun reading activities

out there for you to use in your classroom the most important thing you

can do as an educator is read with your students read to your students and

encourage your students to read to themselves and with their parents

reading is one of those vital educational tools that students will use

whether they're going to be carpenters or professional speakers so make sure

your students rock at it thank you so much for joining us here at mischievous

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time keep being educational rock stars

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