The Reading Activity Handbook: engaging responses to text

A new and updated edition of this essential teacher resource book filled with activities to engage students when responding to a wide range of texts. It includes purposeful activities that focus on reading comprehension, critical thinking and developing vocabulary to help students make personal connections with texts, develop independence and a positive self-image as a reader. An extensive range of blackline masters to support student learning and save teacher's time is available from the eBook.

Providing students with opportunities to engage in purposeful reading responses has many benefits including:

• allowing teachers to work with individuals and small groups
• creating opportunities to observe and monitor students’ comprehension
• providing authentic reading, writing, talking and creative experiences for students
• producing quality work that students value.

The responses in this book will benefit your students by:

• providing opportunities for student choice, which increases student motivation and engagement
• deepening levels of comprehension by requiring them to return to the text for different purposes
• enabling them to make personal connections with literature
• developing independence and positive self-image as a reader.

The Reading Activity Handbook is an essential reference to teachers when planning literacy sessions. Suitable for teachers of all primary levels and lower secondary.