Activities for after reading
- Teach students to identify the key words in a passage (the who, what, where, when, why, how) and use these to summarise the text.
- Ask questions that enable students to determine the correct sequence of events.
- Encourage students to link what has just been read to their personal experiences.
- Retell a narrative (giving students choice in this is a way of differentiating the learning)
- using puppets
- by drawing
- voice recording
- Change the ending
- Change the form of a text
- diary to timeline
- recipe to flowchart
- character description to portrait
- change an event in a narrative to a newspaper report
- descriptive text to labelled picture
- Allow students to further their understanding of a text by continuing to fill in or starting to fill in a graphic organiser.
- to promote differentiated learning, the type of graphic organiser could vary in complexity from student to student.
(Department of Education and Children's Services, 2011)