Summer Reading Toolkit
RED 534Summer 2010
Mary Ann Bartle
VOCABULARY
Vocabulary PinballHow to Play
Click on the red flipper buttons to keep the ball in play. Try to hit all of the letters with the ball to spell a word. Next, choose the correct definition for the word. A correct answer gives a free ball and an incorrect takes a ball away. Hold down and release the green button to launch the ball!
Good Luck!!!Vocabulary Pinball
Extreme WordsWord Analysis
Objective Identify the relationship among words
Materials Sorting board Large word cards Small word cards Envelopes Activity Sheet Pencils
Activity• Place the sorting board and envelopes
containing the word card sets at the center.• Provide each player with an activity sheet.• Taking turns, students open one of the
envelopes, scatter cards, and place larger cards on either end of the sorting board.
• Read the other word cards. Talk about the words and what they mean to determine the order. Place on sorting board.
• Record the information on the activity sheet.• Continue until each activity sheet is complete.
Purpose Students determine relationships among words by placing them on a continuum.
Prefix and Suffix WarGOAL: The object of the game is to win all the cards.
SET UP: Deal out all the cards, so that each player has the same number.Players do not look at their cards, but keep them in a packet face down.
PLAY: Both players now turn their top card face up and put them on the table.Whoever turned the card over with the prefix or the suffix takes both cards and adds them (face down) to the bottom of their packet. Then both players turn up their next card and so on. If neither card has a prefix or suffix, nobody gets the cards.
What if both players turn over a card with a prefix or suffix?If the turned up cards BOTH have a prefix or a suffix there is a war. The tied cards stay on the table and both players play the next card of their pile face down and then another card face-up. Whoever has the card with a prefix or a suffix of the new face-up cards wins the war and adds all six cards face-down to the bottom of their packet. If the new face-up cards are equal as well, the war continues. The war goes on like this as long as the face-up cards continue to both have prefixes or suffixes. As soon as they are different, the player of the higher card wins all of the cards in the war.
DirectionsFor one person:
Lay out all of the word tags and match the synonym pairs. Complete the activity sheet. For two people:
Mix up all of the word cards and spread them out face down on the table. Taking turns, turn over two cards. If the two words are synonyms, you get to keep the cards. If not, turn the cards back face down, and the other person takes a turn. The player with the most synonym pairs at the end of the game is the winner.
Synonyms for Sale
collectionanthology
sequenceorder
squirmed wiggled
Affix MatchMorphemic Elements
Objective Identify the meaning of affixes.Materials Affix and meaning cards
Activity• Place the affix and meaning cards face down
in rows on a flat surface.• Taking turns, students select two cards and
read them.• Determine if cards show an affix and its
meaning (e.g., re-, again).• If there is a match, pick up cards and place
to the side.• If cards do not match, return cards to their
original position.• Continue until all matches are formed.
PurposeStudents match affixes to their meanings by playing a memory game.
COMPREHENSION
Newspaper ActivityLocating specific information from the sports section of a newspaper
1. Title of Article2. Name of Sport3. Team Names4. Final Scores5. Something
interesting or unusual about the game or event
• Label a sheet of paper as shown.• Select three articles.• Locate the information• Write the information on your
paper. and report this to a friend or family member.
Story Element Sort
Objective Identify story elements.
Materials Story element header cards Story element cards
Activity• Place header cards face up in a row at the center. Shuffle the
story element cards and place face down in a stack.• Taking turns, players select the top card from the stack and read
it aloud.• Identify what story element it is and place in column with
matching header card. • Continue until all cards are sorted.
Purpose Identify story elements by sorting them into appropriate categories.
Check the Phone BookUse the telephone book to locate specific information
1. Questions will be provided on index cards and bound together with a metal ring.
2. Using the phone book, locate the answer to each of the questions.3. This can be done independently or it can be a competition between
people, provided each person has their own phone book.
Sample Questions Your family wants to go out for dinner. Choose a
restaurant. Write its name, location, and serving hours.
Where can you take karate lessons? Which location is closest to your home? What is the name of the place? What is the phone number? What is the address?
Context Clues Board GameMaterials Game Board 1 die Context Clues Cards Friend
Directions1. Roll the die to see who goes first.
Highest roll goes first.2. Player 1 rolls the die and draws a
card. If player 1 answers the question, he/she may move the number of spaces rolled. If Player 1 does not answer correctly, he/she may not move.
3. First player to the finish line wins.
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Take theShortcut Pass
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Your plan looks good. I hope it will really work. It’s time to implement it and see if its as brilliant as you claim. a. Instrumentb. Take apartc. Changed. Carry out
Incredible InferencesObjective Identify inferencesMaterials Inference triangles Inference cards Answer key Game pieces
Activity• Place inference cards face down in a stack at the center.• Provide each player with an inference triangle and game
pieces.• Taking turns, players draw a card from the stack and read
it.• Look for phrase on triangle that answers the question. • Read phrase and place game piece on that spot.• Place inference card in discard pile. • If no phrase is found which matches clues, place trivia
card at the bottom of the stack.• Continue until all matches are made.
PurposeIdentify inferences by reading clues.
SequencingClick on the link to sequence a three panel comic strip and answer questions about the comic.
Have fun!
Reading Ring and Professor Garfield
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Inferring Board GameMaterialsGame Board1 dieInferencing Cards
Directions1. Roll the die to figure out order of
turns. Highest roll goes first.2. First player rolls the die and draws a
card. If player correctly answers the question, he may move the number of spaces rolled. If player does not answer correctly, he may not move.
3. First player to the finish line wins.
When I woke up, there were branches and leaves all over the yard.
VisualizingStory Wheel
Purpose To help students visualize story elements and practice summarizing.
1. Students read a story.2. After completing the story, the students list the important events in the story. Reminder (events should be chosen from the beginning, middle
and end of the story).3. Divide the list of important events into a list of 6
– 8 most important events.4. Write the events on the pie segments. 5. Next the students should illustrate their events
on the corresponding pie segments.6. Have students write the story title and the
author’s name in the center circle.7. Share story wheels with family members.
ComprehensionThis website contains various comprehension
activities and games are listed by skill.
Main Idea: What's the Big Idea?
Click on the link below to play.
SummarizingFortune TellersPurpose
To organize and summarize the events in a storyUse this activity after reading or listening to a story. Use the Fortune Teller handout to fold and make your own fortune teller.Using the fortune teller, summarize the story
Student 1 (holding fortune teller) Student 2 (responding to questions)
“Choose a word (Get, Into, the, Book).” Hold fortune teller closed.
“Into.”
“I..N..T..O.” (spelling out word, and opening the fortune teller one way on “I”, the other way on “N”, etc.
“Choose a word.” (continuing to hold the game open on the four words visible when the last letter “O” was spelled.)
“You!”
“Y..O..U.” (as done above)
“Choose a word.”
“Share!”
Fold open the flap with the word Share! On it, and read out the question underneath the flap.
Student responds to the question
BiographyTimelines
Read Coming Home a Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter and create a timeline depicting the major events of his life. Using a timeline helps students make connections and understand complex relationships and interrelationships.
After reading Satchel Paige, The Best Arm in Baseball, find baseball history in our local community. Our town has a minor league stadium, famous athletes whose stories are worth telling. Locate some other information about these athletes and their importance to our local history.
Do you know where Satchel Paige Drive is located?
FLUENCY
Multisyllabic WordsFlash Cards
between
be-tween
Used the way we use other reading fluency flash cards, each high frequency multisyllabic word is divided by syllable structure for easy decoding. The advanced code for difficult vowel patterns is bolded as well to provide even more support for proper decoding practice.
Materials multisyllabic words
PurposeThese cards offer an effective way to teach those all-so-difficult multisyllabic words.
Readers’ Theatre is an activity in which students, while reading directly from scripts, are able to tell a story in a most entertaining form, without props, costumes, or sets. This is a reading activity, and students are not asked to memorize their lines. They are, however, encouraged to "ham it up" and use intonation and gestures appropriate to their characters and their characters’ words.Readers’ Theater serves many useful functions: It provides repeated reading practice—an important factor in building fluency. Repeated reading practice also improves students’ confidence in, and enthusiasm for reading. It’s an enjoyable change of pace from everyday practice sessions.
Reader’s TheaterPractice reading scripts with your brother and sister and then
perform for your parents at the end of the week.
"Select a portion of a book on tape or CD (or a portion that you read aloud). Have the child follow along as he listens to the selection being read. Then let him try to read aloud along with you or the recording. Then, listen to his reading the passage aloud by himself.”
Audio Books
Silent-Letter Word FluencyWhat to do!
Assemble a stack of around 12 index cards with silent-letter words printed on them. (Once students are comfortable with silent-letter words, you might include in the pack some words the students already know.) Now let's play a game. We're going to try to go through this stack of cards as fast as we can, saying the word on each card. Let's see how fast we can go. Remember, some letters stay silent when you read the word. My turn first. Next, model taking the top card off the stack, showing it to the students, and saying the word after a pause. Continue through the stack. Do you think you can go faster than I did? Call on a single student in the group, starting with a student you think may be slower. Show the first card: What's the word? If the student is incorrect, correct him, have him repeat your answer, and move tothe next card. Praise correct answers. Okay, now let's go faster. Shuffle the stack of cards and repeat with students in the same order, but encourage them togo faster. If time and focus allow, shuffle and repeat at an even faster pace.
Read: Silent Letters Loud and Clear
Storyline Online
Choose one of the following activities and share with your parents.• Discuss and then write about someone who has made a difference in your
life.• Discuss and then write about something that you have been teased about.• Discuss and then write about the talent that saved Trisha in the book.• Discuss and then write about a talent that has saved you.• Write a thank you letter to a person that has made a difference in your life.
STORYLINE ...PRESENTS“Thank you, Mr. Falker"
By Patricia Polacco
PHONICS
Word Ladders
Word ladders actively involves the learner in analyzing the structure and meaning of words. To play, students begin with one word and then make a series of other words by changing or rearranging the letters in the word before.
PurposeDevelop students’ decoding and vocabulary skills
Have the child read a book of his or her choosing and present an oral advertisement for the book. The goal of this activity is to convince the audience to read the book he or she has just finished. This is also a good activity to use when teaching the art of persuasive writing. This activity can be completed as a group with follow-up discussions about the similarities and differences between each ad. He may want to practice several times, recording himself, and then perform the advertisement for family members.
Promote Conversations About Reading
Creating Ads:
After reading and learning about volcanoes, try writing an Acrostic Poem.
Use the KWL chart to activate prior knowledge, set a purpose for reading, and to evaluate what you have learned.
K W L
Reading/Writing Connection
Compare & ContrastVenn Diagram
After reading Snap! A Book About Alligators and Crocodiles, complete a Venn Diagram using information that you learned from your reading.
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