Active Reading Strategies Activity Distance Learning Digital | Print | Good Egg

Improve your students' reading comprehension and lay the foundation for close reading and annotation with this EDITABLE Active Reading Strategies GOOGLE SLIDES presentation and activity. Guide your students through the 7 active reading strategies with this NO PREP presentation, which includes modeled examples, practice activities, a graphic organizer for note-taking, and a final reflection to review and close out the lesson.

What's the Activity?

The presentation includes a "main slide" with key details and guiding questions for each strategy. Teachers can guide students through the modeled examples of the strategy in action and students can use the graphic organizer to take notes and to record their practice with each strategy. At the end of the lesson, students reflect on what they've learned about active reading.

**Interested in learning stations? Use this resource to set up "active reading stations" around your room. The class reads the same text, but each group applies a different reading strategy based on the station they're currently at. This makes a great activity for helping students engage more deeply with a poem, short story, article, or chapter.

What is included in this resource?

Table of Contents: Provides the slide number and a brief explanation for each component of the resource

Teacher Guide: Clear, step by step directions for teachers facilitating this activity. 

Graphic Organizer: Students use the graphic organizer to record their learning during the activity and discussion.

Presentation: Slides providing key details, a modeled example, and an opportunity for practice for each of the 7 active reading strategies.

Active Reading Strategies covered include:

• Review
• Predict
• Visualize
• Question
• Connect
• Infer
• Condense

You and your students will need access to the text, The Good Egg in order to use this activity. If you have limited access to the book, I recommend checking YouTube for a read aloud video of the book or checking out a library copy to read to the whole class during circle time or with a doc cam.  

If you prefer to use a presentation that does not require an accompanying text or if your students need additional practice, you can find another version of this presentation using excerpts from To Kill a Mockingbird.

Activity Duration:

This activity will last 1-2 hours, depending on variables such as class size and the amount of time spent writing, sharing, and discussing. 

Final Notes and Details:

**All slides are EDITABLE so that you can edit them to meet the needs of your unique classroom

**These resources are in Google Slides. However, they can also be downloaded from Google Slides as POWERPOINT files or PDF files if you prefer (file, download as, choose your format)

**Use this activity with Zoom Breakout Groups for Virtual Learning or Distance Learning OR for in-person learning!

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