Objective: Teachers have students answer questions about the character, setting, summary, problem, and solution. This activity promotes independent reading skills through a fun self selected reading list that strengthens independent reading skills.
Materials: Teachers can alter the readopoly board to their discretion
Activity/Procedure: Directions are labeled on the boards for students to follow. Students must read 4 books 3 from the same color on the board and 1 free choice. The books can be fiction, non-fiction, mystery etc.
Differentiate Options: Teachers can change space on the game board to fit the area of independent reading skills for age appropriation and grade level.
Assessment Options: This game can be modified to replace book reports
Age Span: 2nd-4th grade
Justification of Choice: This activity was a fun way to get students to talk about what they read. I love the fact that this game offers students incentive to read as well.
Materials: Teachers can alter the readopoly board to their discretion
Activity/Procedure: Directions are labeled on the boards for students to follow. Students must read 4 books 3 from the same color on the board and 1 free choice. The books can be fiction, non-fiction, mystery etc.
Differentiate Options: Teachers can change space on the game board to fit the area of independent reading skills for age appropriation and grade level.
Assessment Options: This game can be modified to replace book reports
Age Span: 2nd-4th grade
Justification of Choice: This activity was a fun way to get students to talk about what they read. I love the fact that this game offers students incentive to read as well.
Objective: Students will gain critical reading confidence skills along with practice to responding to text. This game promotes small group book discussions, and independent learning.
Materials: Jenga wood blocks, blocks can vary in color and size
Activity/Procedure: Teachers create generic comprehension questions from stories or text that focus on main characters, climax, and other important factors and important details of the story. Wood blocks should be placed face up for the students not to see the questions like a tower before pulling the block out of position. Note: not all block need to have questions this can be sporadic. Students play by pulling pieces from the tower of wood block with a question to be answered. The student with the most questions answered wins
Differentiate Options: This activity can be applied to reinforce many different skills of reading and math. It can be tweaked to include important details students should know for test and future reference. It can be colored coded to identify different levels of comprehension
Assessment Options: This activity is a good assessment tool to gauge a students knowledge and understanding as well as comprehension as to what the student has read or what the student's struggles are. The students may not realize that the fun has a form of trivia implied as well.
Age Span: 5-10 yr old
Justification of Choice: This is a great game activity to play for teachers to look beyond worksheets and use other interactive classroom tools.
Materials: Jenga wood blocks, blocks can vary in color and size
Activity/Procedure: Teachers create generic comprehension questions from stories or text that focus on main characters, climax, and other important factors and important details of the story. Wood blocks should be placed face up for the students not to see the questions like a tower before pulling the block out of position. Note: not all block need to have questions this can be sporadic. Students play by pulling pieces from the tower of wood block with a question to be answered. The student with the most questions answered wins
Differentiate Options: This activity can be applied to reinforce many different skills of reading and math. It can be tweaked to include important details students should know for test and future reference. It can be colored coded to identify different levels of comprehension
Assessment Options: This activity is a good assessment tool to gauge a students knowledge and understanding as well as comprehension as to what the student has read or what the student's struggles are. The students may not realize that the fun has a form of trivia implied as well.
Age Span: 5-10 yr old
Justification of Choice: This is a great game activity to play for teachers to look beyond worksheets and use other interactive classroom tools.