Reading Engagement Activities by Sarah Rodriguez

Write and Perform

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Students write their own short stories or plays, then perform them for the class. Use simple costumes or props to make the performances more engaging.

Reading Bingo

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Create a bingo card with different types of books or literary elements ( like animals, adventures, fairy tales). Students mark off a square each time they read a book that fits the criteria. Reward completed bingos with extra reading time, a book, or a class party.

Literary Journals

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Encourage students to keep a journal where they draw or write about their favorite part of each book they read. This activity helps with comprehension and expression, offering a personal connection to the stories.

Pen Pal Letters

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Connect your class with another class from a different school, state, or country. Students can practice writing by exchanging letters with their pen pals, learning about different cultures and perspectives.

Book Character Parade

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Organize a parade where students dress up as their favorite book character. They can give a short presentation to the class about their character and why they chose them, encouraging public speaking and engagement with literature.

Poetry Picnic

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Host a poetry picnic where students can bring in their favorite poems to read aloud to the class. You can hold it outdoors or create a picnic-like setting in the classroom. This activity encourages appreciation for poetry and public speaking skills.

Vocabulary Fashion Show

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Sound scavenger hunt

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Go for a walk around the school and look for things that start or end with any given sound, or share a medial vowel sound.

I-Spy Sounds

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Play phonemic awareness I-Spy. For example, “I spy something that starts with the sound /t/” .

Segmenting Catch

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Throw a ball back and forth, saying the sound for each phoneme or syllable each time you catch the ball.

Segmenting Pop it, Smash it

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Use playdough or a pop it to smash each syllable or sound in a word.

Segmenting Hop Scotch

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Blending Beads

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https://www.facebook.com/watch/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v&v=358498586425908

Segment- Double Decker Elkonin Box

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Blending String

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Hotwheel Blending

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HearBuilder

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HearBuilder helps strengthen following directions,
phonological awareness, auditory memory, and sequencing skills.

Magnet Tile Decoding

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Use square magnet tiles and write letters on them. Students say the first tile’s letter sound, then bring the magnet tile together, while students say that sound, and so on. Then quickly blend them together.

Musical Dots

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Use UFLI Roll & Reads to play a game of Musical Dots!

Jump and Blend

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Play Jump and Blend with hula-hoops!

Arm Stretching

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Use this kinesthetic strategy to blend sounds!

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Let students borrow a finger light or a finger nail pointer to “point” to the letters/ words as they read.

Read and Build

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Use the UFLI “Word List” and write words on cups. Have students stack them and see who can build the tallest cup-tower!

Pattern Search

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Use this chart to find the black and white “Geodes” book (in the bookroom) that matches your UFLI lesson. Have students highlight words with that pattern in the book!

Roll, Read, Dab

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Let students use a bingo dauber to “dab” the words on the UFLI Roll & Reads.

Slinky Blending

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Let students borrow a mini slinky and pull it apart as they continuously blend the letter sounds, then snap it together to quickly blend the sounds.

Roll, Read, Race!

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Cut up the Roll & Read words. Students use place them on the UFLI board game when read correctly, and race to the finish!

UFLI Word Games

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UFLI aligned partner games: LuckySquares or HoneycombRace

Decoding KABOOM!

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Write the UFLI “Word List” words on popsicle sticks and have student partners play KABOOM!

Blending Strategies that are fun because they WORK!

srodriguez2_106 — 2024-05-10 03:55:22 UTC

Practice successive blending and continuous blending (try these Continuous Blending Cards). These are evidence based strategies that allow students to feel successful and engaged!

UFLI Boggle

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Have students use these UFLI Boggle games to write as many words as they can with the given letters.

UFLI Word Puzzles

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As a class, use these UFLI Wordle Puzzles to have students guess letters to make a word that matches the skill you’re working on.

Shaving Cream Spelling

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Let students use shaving cream (this isn’t as messy as it sounds, and cleans desks too!), Squishy sensory bags, or Sand Trays to get multisensory practice.

UFLI encoding and decoding headbands

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Use UFLI sentences to play this cute headband game to practice encoding (spelling) AND decoding (reading).

Choose a Pen

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Let students write words using rainbow pencils, erasable pens , or a fun pen.

Say, Segment, and Write

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Segment and write activity for encoding- the student: 1)says the word, 2)pushes the beads across a pipe cleaner to segment the sounds, 3)pushes an object for each sound using Elkonin Boxes, then 4)writes letter(s) to match each sound.

Sparkle! Spelling

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Play a game of Sparkle using the UFLI “Word List” words (at the end of each lesson).

Chalk it up

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Have students use sidewalk chalk and bricks on the outdoor wall as Elkonin Boxes to divide sounds or syllables.

Phonics Fashion!

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Have each student choose a phonics pattern they’ve learned, and create a paper bag vest that’s decorated with words and pictures that include that pattern. Then have them perform a Phonics Fashion Show !

What do I need...? Word Chaining Fun

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Try this engaging word chaining strategy!

UFLI Word Wall Activities

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Teach your Monster

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This is a free and fun online phonics game!

Virtual Blending Board

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UFLI Decodable Readers Theater

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UFLI Decodable Reader's Theater: Readers Theater is a great, evidence-based practice for building accuracy, rate, and expression! If you want to take it a step further, you could even have students create masks out of paper plates or costumes–and put on a play for their classmates.

ChatterPix Kids

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ChatterPix Kids- 1) students take a picture of a character from a page of a book they’re reading, 2) students record their voice reading as fluently as possible (the program makes the character’s mouth move as the students recording plays) 3) students can listen to how fluent they were, and re-record if they want to try reading more fluently. Example

Pick up the fluency phone!

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Pick up the fluency phone! Have students read into a fluency phone, so they can hear their own voice without being too loud. Here’s a less expensive, DIY option:DIY: Fluency Phones

Expressive Reading

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Have students reread the same sentence or paragraph, but trying out different voices (mad, disappointed, excited, scared). This can be a good exercise in why it’s important for expression match the text (it would sound silly if you read the sentence “my dog ran away” in an excited voice, for example).

Reading Buddy

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Have students bring a toy or stuffed animal to read to. Or, get a class pet and have students read to them! For students who are self-conscious about reading aloud, it can help to have a non-judgemental “friend” to practice reading to.

Fluency Pyramids

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Fluency triangles are another evidence-based practice for improving fluency. UFLI - Fluency triangles_ Lessons 5-34.pdf, UFLI - Fluency triangles_ Lessons 35-41

Choral, Echo, and Partner Reading

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These evidence- based strategies are engaging because they are effective! Choral Reading, Echo Reading, and Partner Reading

Vocabulary in Action

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Act out or draw a vocabulary word, or play a game of vocabulary charades!

Synonym/Antonym Face-off

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Break students into pairs. Have pairs compete against other teams to see which team can think of the most synonyms or antonyms for a word in a given amount of time.

Vocabulary Use

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Challenge students to use the vocabulary word as many times as they can throughout the course of the day.

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Split class into two groups. Teach each group a different vocabulary word. Then, have them teach their word to the other group, and vise versa.

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Give each student a post it flag dispenser . Have students flag any unknown words as they read, and give them time to find/discuss unknown words’ meanings.

Read Aloud

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Read books aloud daily, (yes, that includes older students, too!). It's a great engaging morning or after-recess routine, and a wonderful way to start class discussions or teach SEL lessons. And repeated, incidental exposure to words that often appear only in written text is how many vocabulary words are acquired.

Arguing Semantics

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Have students create a semantic map

Picture Analogies

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Teach analogies using Picture Analogies

Morphology Blocks

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Write several base words on legos or other blocks, and write prefixes and suffixes on other blocks. Have groups see how many different words they can create using different combinations of word parts from this set of blocks.

Shades of Meaning

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Get some (free!) paint strips and practice writing synonyms and the different shades of meaning that their definitions have!

Morphology- Mini Word Matrix Maker

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Word Analogies Online Game

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Morphology- Root Word Puzzles

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This online puzzle is AWESOME for studying word origins and their meanings in a fun and challenging way!

Reading in Action!

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Have students summarize a story by acting out the story (our own Comets acting out John Henry!) or performing a dramatic Tableaux

Virtual Field Trips: Real-World Connections

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Take a field trip that relates to the topic you’re reading about. Virtual Field Trips are an option also! Many museums and other places will even let you schedule a zoom meeting with an expert on the topic, allowing students to interact with the presenter. Here Comets are learning about Native American Artifacts after finishing reading several books on the topic of Early Native American life.

Google Earth, Non-Fictions Best Friend

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Use Google earth to allow students to take a “field trip” to explore the real life “setting” of the book. These Comets found the Big Bend Tunnel after reading about John Henry.

Connect Texts

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Help build background knowledge by creating a “folder”on Epic that has other books related to the topic you’re reading about.

Book Walk

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Students create a Book Walk , and literally walk through the retelling of a story.

Bring Characters to Life

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For biographies, students can create a Living Wax Museum and tell the story from another person’s perspective. For practice with point of view, character traits, or opinion writing, have students impersonate two characters and have a debate! Ie. have Little Red tell her side of the story, and The Big Bad Wolf defend himself.

Connect Learning Across Subjects

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Do a science experiment/ STEAM project that relates to the topic you’re reading about. Example: after reading about the states of matter students observed physical state changes while making rock candy, and tried to persuade teachers to buy it for a fair price (math, science, art, reading, social studies, and persuasive writing)

Model Expression by "Drama Reading" your Students' Writing

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Teach the Code Using Music!

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Check out these catchy songs that teach different phonics patterns and decoding strategies!

Tier 1 Differentiation Routines

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Reader's Theater Scripts!

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This resource has tons of scripts for reader's theater!

UFLI Morphology

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These slides go over morpheme trees, as well as common Greek and Latin roots.