December
5
ELA A10 B7 Quests and Adventures
Personal Online Search:
Find an article online that explores the benefits of engaging in long literature texts, like in novel reading. You will find a partner(s) and have a brief group discussion (6-10 minutes long) to compare what you find.
** Make sure a partner in the group records the discussion and submits it with a proper file name.
- Science-backed Benefits of Reading a (Real) Book
- Thirty Reasons to Read Books
- Why Reading Books Should be Your Priority
- Twelve Reasons You Should Read Twelve Books This Year
Active Reading Activity: “The Sniper”
- We have practiced reading a short story and using the active reading slips of paper to help you start looking for elements within the text, such as predictions, or confirming beliefs.
- Make a COPY of this digital copy, give it your own title (Name – The Sniper), and read through the text WHILE looking for examples of the list of active reading prompts within the text.
- Highlight a portion of the text you want to make an observation of and Add a Comment that includes:
- the number correlating to the prompt
- the prompt name
- your observation explained.
- Example: #3 Clarify something – I think…….
- Highlight a portion of the text you want to make an observation of and Add a Comment that includes: