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User's
Guide for Reading Activities
Overview
This User's Guide
is intended to help you make full use of the Reading Activities.
The guide has three parts: This Overview, Objectives
and Standards, and Resources
for Teachers with Reading Adventures.
Note that each
activity has its own teacher's guide with specific information
and instructions for the activity. Students
may do the Reading Activities individually, in pairs, or in
small groups. The activities may be used as an extension of
SuccessMaker's Reading Adventures, but you don't need to have
Reading Adventures to make full use of the activities. Teachers
who do have Reading Adventures should review Resources
for Teachers with Reading Adventures.
Grade
Levels
The Reading Activities are designed for students in grades
3 through 5. Although each activity has a target grade level
(indicated in the teacher's guide), many activities can be
used successfully by students in adjacent grade levels.
Learning
Objectives
The learning objectives for each activity are listed, along
with the applicable national standards, in Objectives
and Standards. Each activity has a featured skill, which
is identified in the teacher's guide for the activity.
Time
Required
An activity takes approximately 30 to 45 minutes to complete,
depending on students' reading speed and computer proficiency.
Each activity has five parts. Students may need two or three
sessions to complete the entire activity.
Materials
The activities require the following materials and equipment:
- At
least one computer with a Web browser and Internet access
- Printer
(If access to printing is limited, have students copy materials
onto a sheet of paper or into a notebook.)
- Copier
(optional)
Activity
Parts
Each activity is a reading lesson that focuses on a skill
or strategy (such as main idea and details or sequence). An
activity has five parts, described in the table below.
| Part |
Description |
| Words
To Know |
An
interactive, multiple-choice activity that helps students
become familiar with vocabulary words from the reading
passage
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| Before
You Read |
An
activity that helps students access prior knowledge and
build background in preparation for reading the passage,
with a link to the printable worksheet for the reading
passage |
| Reading
Passage |
The
fiction or nonfiction reading passage upon which the lesson
is based |
| Rate
Yourself |
A
self-assessment that lets students evaluate their own
performance on the activity |
| Take-Home
Activity |
A
printable activity to be completed at home |
Preparation
Select an activity appropriate to your grade level and curriculum.
Review the teacher's guide for the activity, and familiarize
yourself with each part. Before students begin work, you may
wish to print out and make copies of the activity worksheet,
as well as the Rate Yourself assessment sheet and the Take-Home
Activity.
Assessment
All activities have a worksheet and a self-assessment (Rate
Yourself). You may wish to evaluate the worksheets, using
the answer keys provided in the teacher's guides. You may
also wish to respond to or discuss self-assessments with students.
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