Reader activity ideas???
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Reader activity ideas???
For my 8-10 yo class, my school uses a low level story book reader (Hello Reader by Scholastic, Level 1). I have to use this reader 2-3 times a week, for 3 months... yes, 3 MONTHS! It's very basic ("Sam has a pet crab. Her name is Star.") The kids have it down by the 2nd or 3rd week, so I'm running out of ideas on how to incorporate it into my lessons. Any ideas for games, activities, etc...? They hate BINGO, and are sick of Hangman. The goal is for them to memorize the entire book. Right now I've been using word flashcards to have them make sentences out of the book, but they are quickly getting sick of that too.
Activities
Hello,
You could try to copy a few pages of the book. White out a few selected words per paragraph. Put these words on slips of paper and split the kids into groups of fours. Each group gets a copy of the pages with the select words whited out. Their job is to place the slips of papers with the words in the correct position in the sentence. It takes some work to get this together, but I have found it to be a great activity. Good luck!
Andrew
http://drewseslfluencylessons.com
You could try to copy a few pages of the book. White out a few selected words per paragraph. Put these words on slips of paper and split the kids into groups of fours. Each group gets a copy of the pages with the select words whited out. Their job is to place the slips of papers with the words in the correct position in the sentence. It takes some work to get this together, but I have found it to be a great activity. Good luck!
Andrew
http://drewseslfluencylessons.com
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You must be on month 3 by now. Please tell us what you did with the book during this time. That is a marathon.
If you are still on it or are on the next three month cycle, you could have the students write their own books based on the format. "Sally has a pet. It is a cat." and illustrate it, pass it around and let the others read their story. At least you would have 25? more books in the classroom.
You could than concentrate on the animals and study more about their habitats, food, habits and so on to extend the story.
You could put the interesting words up on your Word Wall.
You could colour code the words in the story to parts of speech - red for nouns, green for verbs, pink for adjectives, blue for adverbs and so on and start columns for parts of speech. Some words can go in other columns of course.
You can make dialogue for the book and act it out as a play or video it and make a movie. Sam said, "I have a crab."
The students can make posters from the book on their animals, post those around the room and explain about their animal to the others as half the class circulates and half explains.
You can dictate the book, page by page and they write in a half and half exercise book so they can draw pictures above the dictations. Then get them to experiment with how Sam looks and how the crab can look - show them pictures of many kinds of crabs.
Make a Flat Sam (see the Flat Stanley books) and take him to the aquarium or the beech along with the students to see the crabs.
Make up columns of rhyming words with the words you have the in book - Sam, ham, dam, slam, bam, etc.
Talk about Sam, his clothes, his room, his house and whatever else the illustrations show and name everything in the pictures and then get the children to change his clothes so he is wearing something else in their dictation story or the weather changes or change the design of his room or the number of people in his family, his friends, etc.
Make up a tune to sing the story of Sam and use different homemade instruments to provide the percussion - shakers made from water bottles and beans, pot lids for symbols.
Make a path game for the crab to travel with a difficult word from the book on each step of the path. Make obstacles for the crab - a big fish comes by and the crab has to hide, lose one turn. The fishermen put out a trap with chicken, lose two turns. The crab finally gets to Sam's aquarium as the goal.
Talk to the children about Sam taking the crab back to the beech and letting him free and then write a story about his life in the sea, meeting other crabs, finding a mate and having baby crabs.
Talk to your boss and see if you can get the curriculum changed so that you can get more realistic goals and more books into the classroom.
If you are still on it or are on the next three month cycle, you could have the students write their own books based on the format. "Sally has a pet. It is a cat." and illustrate it, pass it around and let the others read their story. At least you would have 25? more books in the classroom.
You could than concentrate on the animals and study more about their habitats, food, habits and so on to extend the story.
You could put the interesting words up on your Word Wall.
You could colour code the words in the story to parts of speech - red for nouns, green for verbs, pink for adjectives, blue for adverbs and so on and start columns for parts of speech. Some words can go in other columns of course.
You can make dialogue for the book and act it out as a play or video it and make a movie. Sam said, "I have a crab."
The students can make posters from the book on their animals, post those around the room and explain about their animal to the others as half the class circulates and half explains.
You can dictate the book, page by page and they write in a half and half exercise book so they can draw pictures above the dictations. Then get them to experiment with how Sam looks and how the crab can look - show them pictures of many kinds of crabs.
Make a Flat Sam (see the Flat Stanley books) and take him to the aquarium or the beech along with the students to see the crabs.
Make up columns of rhyming words with the words you have the in book - Sam, ham, dam, slam, bam, etc.
Talk about Sam, his clothes, his room, his house and whatever else the illustrations show and name everything in the pictures and then get the children to change his clothes so he is wearing something else in their dictation story or the weather changes or change the design of his room or the number of people in his family, his friends, etc.
Make up a tune to sing the story of Sam and use different homemade instruments to provide the percussion - shakers made from water bottles and beans, pot lids for symbols.
Make a path game for the crab to travel with a difficult word from the book on each step of the path. Make obstacles for the crab - a big fish comes by and the crab has to hide, lose one turn. The fishermen put out a trap with chicken, lose two turns. The crab finally gets to Sam's aquarium as the goal.
Talk to the children about Sam taking the crab back to the beech and letting him free and then write a story about his life in the sea, meeting other crabs, finding a mate and having baby crabs.
Talk to your boss and see if you can get the curriculum changed so that you can get more realistic goals and more books into the classroom.