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	Reading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reading (technical), an activity performed by a computer
		Reading (activity), an activity performed by a human
		Reading Abbey, a mediaeval abbey in Reading in England
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reading (197 words)

	Summer Reading Activity
		The activity would be a reading program that would span any 7 weeks of the summer.
		Upon completion of the reading, they would log on their "passport" the title of the material read, and number of pages read for that week (which must be 80 or more), and the continent they are landing on.
		Much concern in professional literature is given to the need to maintain the reading and comprehension skills of students over the summer months when school is out of session.
	www.albany.edu /~dj2930/summerreading.html (669 words)

	ESL Reading Activity
		ACTIVITY: Students will sit at a table which has a video camera mounted so that it can record their eye movements as they read a passage.
		This activity will help make them aware of its vital role and teach them techniques they can use to become a better reader regardless of their current level.
		The next two paragraphs are to read while they use their finger as a pointer to guide them as they read the words.
	personal.ecu.edu /mahbooba/reading_turk.htm (647 words)

	Help with School: Child Reading, Reading Cmprehension, Guided Reading, Online Tutoring Made Fun and Simple
		Many people think of reading as a solitary activity only, but when your child is learning, it can be a social event.
		Reading circles and groups in school can be your child's greatest pleasure-or their worst nightmare-depending on whether or not your child feels confident with their reading skills.
		Phonics is the mechanical process of reading and, as such, it's a fundamental part of learning how to become a good reader.
	www.helpwithschool.org /Reading%20Help.html (378 words)

	Guided Reading through Children's Literature
		Reading a piece of material as a group and then gleaning meaning from that selection together is a helpful reading activity for many.
		We started these activities with the defense of an abused dog and we end with the killing of a different dog while uncovering the motivations and justification for both actions within good reading material.
		Another reading strategy that helps with comprehension is the ability to visualize, turning words into images.
	www.carolhurst.com /profsubjects/reading/guided.html (2130 words)

	Directed Reading
		The following model utilizes the directed reading activity format which is suggested for use in the teacher's manual of most basal reading series.
		Building empathy for characters, critical reading skills, appropriate literary skills (but not asking for the moral of the story), "realness" of characters and so would be developed at this point.
		The model is recognized by many reading authorities as a highly effective approach for reading instruction.
	www.bustersbookshelf.com /directed_reading.htm (870 words)

	Past Issues - July/August 1999
		Pre-reading activity requires considerable time, but that time is a wise and critical investment, for it prepares students to actively engage with the text.
		Depending on the purpose of the reading (and it is important to be explicit to students about purposes), the teacher might have students brainstorm individually about what they already know about a national capital that is more familiar to them: Washington, DC.
		By knowing what students bring to their reading, teachers can provide them with bridges, or scaffolds, between the given and the new-clarifying unfamiliar vocabulary and concepts, and offering other necessary information in the process.
	www.edletter.org /past/issues/1999-ja/secondary.shtml (1187 words)

	Akgün - A Fun Reading Comprehension Activity (I-TESL-J)
		You may do this activity for 10 minutes at the end of the class time which allows you to finish up with something fun and wholesome or you may spend one complete class hour on it for a full-length reading class.
		Akgün - A Fun Reading Comprehension Activity (I-TESL-J) The Internet TESL Journal
		Many EFL teachers are familiar with the type of reading comprehension exercise in which students are required to read the passage and then answer a set of multiple-choice questions.
	iteslj.org /Lessons/Akgun-ReadingComp.html (662 words)

	ESL Reading Activity
		The students will read with a purpose (intensive reading) and they will have reviewed aspects of grammar when generating the 10 questions since these have to be well formulated for the other student to understand and answer them.
		Adaptations can be made by grading the level of the books to read but the structure of the activity can remain exactly the same.
		Once they are done with this stage, they will have to share their questions with another student that read the same particular book, and will have to answer those questions on paper which in turn could be turned in to the teacher as evaluation.
	personal.ecu.edu /mahbooba/reading_Henriquez.htm (373 words)

	TEACHING OF COMPREHENSION WITH A DIFFERENCE Language Arts Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Reading or Writing Teaching Idea
		The class is given instructions regarding silent reading of whatever passage they get.
		Students are going to read newspapers, books and journals all through their life and that was what we had to teach them to read and comprehend.
		It is a Herculean task on the part of the teacher to read each passage which is different from the other and read all the question paper set by the children and also scrutinize each answer paper written by the children.
	www.lessonplanspage.com /LATeachingComprehension-Method57.htm (1028 words)

	School-Home Links Reading Kit: Third Grade Activities Table of Contents
		The activities are organized by reading and literacy skills appropriate to this grade.
		Learning to notice and learn new words while reading
		Under each specific skill, there are varying numbers of activities to help children develop their ability to read and write.
	www.ed.gov /pubs/CompactforReading/table3.html (637 words)

	Activity Comprehension Kid Reading
		reading 161 first grade reading activity 158 activity fun reading 154 activity comprehension free reading 152 reading activity for kid 132 activity help reading...
		Use as a kid activity to improve reading comprehension for...
		activity leap year 1456 youth activity 1440 activity kid printable 1422 kindergarten math activity 1418 reading comprehension activity 1413 activity...
	www.atikokanarts.com /kids_activities/1/activity-comprehension-kid-reading.asp (164 words)

	English Language Arts 20: Teaching and Learning
		A pre-reading activity with the focus on arousing interest in a text and getting students started reading will be different from one with the focus on establishing a common understanding about the main idea or technique employed in a text.
		Active reading requires students to bring their backgrounds into the reading, to interact with the selections, to become imaginatively and intellectually involved, and to share and shape their responses within the classroom setting.
		Independent reading time (30-40 minutes), where students keep a journal and respond to the literature in terms of what they think or how they feel about what they are reading.
	www.sasked.gov.sk.ca /docs/ela20/teach5.html (9596 words)

	Reading activity
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	www.speedread.org /products/readingactivity.php (277 words)

	Guided Reading in the Primary Classroom
		Guided reading is one component of the shared reading block during which the teacher provides support for small, flexible groups of beginning readers.
		Guided reading is one component of a four-block reading program, developed by Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall, which consists of self-selected reading, shared reading, writing, and working with words.
		The teacher helps students learn to use reading strategies, such as context clues, letter and sound knowledge, and syntax or word structure, as they read a text or book that is unfamiliar to them.
	teacher.scholastic.com /professional/teachstrat/guidedreading.htm (498 words)

	Reading Activity
		Teaching/Learning Objectives: To teach reading comprehension, focusing on the five steps of effective reading: pre-reading, scanning, intensive reading, and comprehension.
		Analysis: I find this exercise highly beneficial because it provides practice and information than this, however, it provides exposure to grammar and sentence structure; the idea of ‘input’ is in effect here, meaning that by reading properly written Spanish, students will gain a better understanding of how to write it properly.
		This activity will be used for my class activity presentation on 10/14/04
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/k/r/kro121/reading.htm (481 words)

	Lanuage Arts: Strategies for Teaching Reading
		Reading aloud provides children the opportunity to experience active reading when we stop to discuss how the character may feel and what the character might do, but most importantly, it allows for prediction of how the story may end.
		Reading is done left to right with space between words, punctuation for direction, and meaning connected to each word and word group.
		When reading is completed, children should be able to retell the story or arrange pictures from the story in correct order.
	www.state.tn.us /education/ci/cistandards2001/la/cilarstratteachread.htm (4420 words)

	Reading Comprehension
		This fun sheet helps students review the basic points of reading comprehension by means of a "hopscotch" board.
		This unit helps students with vocabulary and reading comprehension skills to go with this seasonal installment of Marc Brown's popular Arthur series.
		This one-page reading comprehension follows a standardized testing format.
	abcteach.com /directory/reading_comprehension (701 words)

	Edwardsville Intelligencer - Intelligencer Today - 12/26/2005 - Library plans centennial celebration
		The "Read to a Bear Book Buddy" children's reading activity will also be in January.
		On Feb. 6, the Warm Up with a Good Book Adult Reading Program begins, with a celebratory twist.
		Participants who read books from a list of Illinois authors will be eligible to win a basket of library memorabilia in a special drawing.
	www.goedwardsville.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15819095&BRD=2291&PAG=461&dept_id=473648& (587 words)

	Compact for Reading and School-Home Links Index
		A Compact for Reading is a written agreement among families, teachers, principals, and students to work together to help improve the reading skills of kindergarten through third grade children.
		The School-Home Links Reading Kits are a collection of research-based activities designed to help families reinforce the reading and language arts skills that their children are learning at school.
		The principal authors of the Compact for Reading Guide are Mary Russo, Director of the Boston Annenberg Challenge; Gary Kosman of Northwestern University; and Alan Ginsburg, Susan Thompson-Hoffman, and Julie Pederson of the U.S. Department of Education.
	www.ed.gov /pubs/CompactforReading (415 words)

	Activities
		This is a great reading and writing activity to welcome the new ESL students to the United States and to our local communities, and engaging for the other first year students.
		Activity: I played this game as a child with playing cards, but was recently reminded of it by a member of our ESL class.
		This activity is also for beginning ESL students and provides students with the opportunity to learn that many languages have a variation of the same name.
	ksumail.kennesaw.edu /~djohnson/activities2003summer.html (12594 words)

	Manuscript Reading Activity
		These documents were written long ago, at a time when handwriting and spelling were different from ours in many ways.
		See if you can read them and write out what they say...
		Choose a document below and then try to read the old handwriting.
	www.memorialhall.mass.edu /activities/readthis/index.jsp (80 words)

	Learning Disabilities OnLine - Kidzone : Celebrity Quiz
		When he was 12 years- old, he could not read, and he remained deficient in reading all his life.
		This young man had much difficulty reading and throughout his life was unable to read well.
		However, he was the governor of the state of New York for four terms and later won congressional approval to be appointed vice president of the United States.
	www.ldonline.org /kidzone/inter_act/celebrity_quiz.html (358 words)

	ESL Reading Activity
		Your won’t see a kangaroo reading a book.”
		Discuss the rhyming words in the story (ex: cook and book, cars and jars, shop and mop) and how the story is written in an ABB rhyming pattern.
		After they write their sentences, they may illustrate a picture to go with what they have written.
	personal.ecu.edu /mahbooba/reading_cyrus.htm (248 words)

	second grade reading activity
		This type of activity requires reading a recipe and...
		After reading about Stanley, a boy who was flattened by a...
		The activity satisfied a curriculum requisite to learn...
	grade.10-best-deals.info /second-grade-reading-activity (295 words)

	Readers' Theater or Reader's Theatre--A Great Reading Activity
		This is a reading activity, and students are not asked to memorize their lines.
		Readers' Theater (also spelled "Reader's Theatre" or "Readers Theater") 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.
		Reading A-Z Reader’s Theater Scripts are adapted from the their own downloadable leveled books.
	www.literacyconnections.com /ReadersTheater.html (835 words)

	Educational Resources, Coloring Pages, Puzzles, Sudoku for Kids and Printables for Kids at Activity Village!
		We aim to provide parents and teachers of the under-10s with ideas, inspiration, and all sorts of kids activities - many printable - as well as advice and help with all aspects of looking after children.
		We have a selection of sizes which you can print out here.
		Hang the Better Behavior Wheel on your kitchen wall, and the atmosphere in your home will change overnight.
	www.activityvillage.co.uk (220 words)

	Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
		Have the child read aloud (or you read to the child for a Directed Reading-Listening Activity) through to the first stopping point, through the story's initiating event.
		For more information, see Stauffer, Russell G. Directing Reading Maturity as a Cognitive Process.
		The DR-TA begins with very open-ended or divergent responses and moves toward more accurate predictions and text based inferences as the reader acquires information from reading.
	www.deafed.net /PublishedDocs/sub/961007k.htm (330 words)

	Gilbert schools show 'a love for reading'
		At Boulder Creek Elementary, kids will be allowed to wear hats to school today as part of a "Hats off to Reading" activity.
		If a child is caught reading this week, he could be handed a "reading ticket" that can be used to win prizes.
		The celebration is part of the National Education Association's Read Across America Day, a nationwide initiative to promote children's literacy.
	www.azcentral.com /community/gilbert/articles/0303gr-readZ12.html (418 words)

	independent reading
		is one of the most important activities for reading development of students of all ages.
		While independent reading is so important to reading growth, studies show that many students do not read on their own at all.
		In fact some students think that reading is something that is done only in school and with their textbooks.
	www.oswego.org /staff/bcolabel/web/inread.htm (276 words)

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