Ready to Ready Gold Level Reading Comprehension Activities
Description
Save your time and know that your students are completing follow-up activities featuring a range of reading skills and higher-order thinking. This resource provides follow-up activities for the Ready to Read Gold Level readers found in New Zealand schools. An engaging “Must Do, Choose Two” format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and choice.
Please note, to use this resource, you need to have access to the Gold Level Ready to Read readers, found in New Zealand primary schools.
In this Ready to Ready Gold Level reading comprehension pack you will receive:
1. 14 engaging follow-up activities – one for each of the current Gold level Ready to Read series.
2. A range of engaging activities. Each activity sheet features seven activities and a range of higher-order thinking skills, including analysing, evaluating and creating.
Reading Comprehension Strategies and Higher-Order Thinking included:
- Making inferences
- Making connections
- Creating
- Evaluating
- Visualising
- Using vocabulary (nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, synonyms, similes, alternatives to said)
- Identifying text features
- Comparing and contrasting
- Sequencing
- Analysing characters
- Thinking critically
- Considering the author’s purpose
3. Two Activity Templates
- Clipboard
- Venn Diagram
4. Non-Fiction Text Structures and Non-Fiction Text Features posters.
5. Two Teacher Guide pages with ways to use this resource in your classroom.
The readers included in this resource are:
- A Gift for Aunty Ngā
- Blue Eggs
- Greedy Cat at the Market
- Night is a Blanket
- The Thief
- Wheke
- Extraordinary Earthworms
- Matariki
- Red Rattlers
- The Greatest Race on Earth
- The Impossible Bridge
- The White-tailed Spider
- Undersea Gardens
