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Reading Activities: Activity Description

The document describes 16 reading activities that can be used in a classroom setting. The activities include role playing games like "Who Done It" to encourage asking and answering target questions, surveys and presentations where students interview each other and present to the class, and cooperative games like sentence relay and story writing where students work in groups to sequence sentences or create a story using target language. Most activities incorporate both reading target sentences and interacting with classmates through questions, discussions, or games.

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Reading Activities: Activity Description

The document describes 16 reading activities that can be used in a classroom setting. The activities include role playing games like "Who Done It" to encourage asking and answering target questions, surveys and presentations where students interview each other and present to the class, and cooperative games like sentence relay and story writing where students work in groups to sequence sentences or create a story using target language. Most activities incorporate both reading target sentences and interacting with classmates through questions, discussions, or games.

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Reading Activities

Activity Description

Who Done It As a whole group activity, learners are given role cards. The roles can include any
number of things but the basic theme is to go around the room, ask other learners
target questions, write down their results and try to find out who committed a
‘crime’.
Survey/Presentations Create a simple survey based on the content and have learners in pairs interview
each other with the target questions. They then get to present their friend to the
class, and encourage other learners to ask questions from the audience as well.
Bump/Reading Take a normal bump game, where learners bump into each other and ask and
answer target sentences, and add reading to it. So each student will read, ask and
answer the questions.
Create a Sentence Learners first write down content words that form sentences randomly. They then
Relay (Error are placed into two teams. One at a time each team’s learners pick on word and
Corrections) bring it back to the group. As a group they try to create a sentence in order in a
given time. As a wrap have the other team correct their grammar if the sentence is
a bit out of order.
Story Writing and Groups of learners come together and sequence a story using the target language.
Charades(Teams) They then mime out the story and other groups have to guess the target sentences
they are using.
Chinese Whispers Learners are placed into two or more teams. The learners whisper a target
with reading sentence to each other down the line and the last learner must go rearrange the
target sentence and read it out loud. After, switch the position of the learners in
their lines so each learner gets a chance to write and say the sentences out loud.
Go Fish Writing Write out a bunch of target sentences on cards. Then in 2 groups (one with the FT
and one with the LP) they play go fish. Asking or saying the target sentence they
want to make a match. If a learner gets two of the same cards they lay down their
match. If no other learner has that target sentence the learner must pick a card
from the pile. The learner who runs out of cards first is the winner.
Team Sentence Learners are in groups, pairs or teams. Each team is given a pile of words of target
Rearrange sentences individually on cards or laminated papers. Learners make the correct
sentence by putting the words in the right order. You may add a timer for extra
challenge and allow learners to check each other’s grammar as well.
Stacking/Unstacking Kind of like Jenga or reverse Jenga, where learners stack or un-stack objects
Hidden Message without making the stack fall. When stacking or un-stacking they must read the
sentence on the object.
Grammar Debate Learners can be split into two teams, groups or pairs. They then need to work
Challenge together to decide if sentences are grammatically correct sentence. They fix the
errors and write the grammatically correct sentence.
Read/Wrap Write As an optional wrap activity, for any of your games or activities, at the end, hand
out some paper with questions on them. Learners must then read the questions
and write their own answers down

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