 Reading Smarter!: More than 200 Reproducible Activities to Build
Reading Proficiency in Grades 7 - 12
Patricia Osborn
ISBN: 0-13-044976-8
Paperback
448 pages
June 2002
$29.50
For
secondary reading specialist and English teachers, this unique
resource provides over 200 ready-to-use exercises to help you
introduce and reinforce basic literary and reading concepts and
develop essential thinking and interpretive skills with students
of varying abilities.
The
activities are organized into 12 sequential units and build naturally
to higher levels of reading proficiency. Each unit also includes
reproducible reading selections plus an introductory section with
suggestions for teaching the skills in that unit. Here s just
an overview of unit topics with sample worksheet titles:
1.
The Good Reader in Action presents a variety of warm-up
exercises, such as "Filling in Famous Quotations," to
help students become more flexible in working with words.
2.
All Words Are Not Created Equal focuses on different
kinds of reading in activities such as "Reading for Proof"
and "Search & Scan Exercise."
3.
When to Use a Dictionary features activities to help
students determine when to use a dictionary, for example, "Making
an Educated Guess" and "What s in a Name?"
4.
A Meeting of Minds teaches students to look beyond the
surface for the writer s meaning through exercises such as "Recognizing
Charged Words" and "Dealing with Doublespeak."
5.
The Reader As Reporter provides 20 exercises focusing
on a reporter s five W s and an H (how) to develop the habit of
looking for answers to these things in reading.
6.
When Complications Arise prepares students for reading
literary masterpieces that might otherwise overwhelm them with
activities such as "Breaking Up Busy Sentences."
7.
Coming to Terms with Techniques of Literature features
exercises to build students understanding of literary techniques,
for example, "Seeing the Logic in an Analogy."
8.
The Truth in Literature develops understanding of differences
and similarities between nonfiction and fiction through exercises
such as "Taking Sides in a Conflict."
9.
Setting and Point of View focuses on some of the elements
readers can absorb from the first paragraph in activities like
"Omniscient or Outside Observer?"
10.
Plot introduces the basics of plot and types of fiction
passages in exercises such as "Plotting the Action"
and "Drawing Conclusions from Dialogue."
11.
Character: The Heart of the Story presents various methods
by which authors achieve effective characterization through activities
such as "Shades of Differences."
12.
Something to Talk About features authorial comments,
elements of symbolism, and thematic references in activities such
as "And the Moral is..." and "Familiar Symbols."
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