Grammar activity ideas
A key purpose of guided reading is to get students to understand and respond in new ways to a text or story, thinking about the particular words and forms used.
- Find similes and metaphors, then illustrate them.
- Make a continuum of words, for example happy > angry. Explain the differences between each word and the order chosen.
- Make banks of ‘happy’ or ‘sad’ words. Can they think of any other categories or groupings?
- Find a piece of descriptive text. Change the adjectives for synonyms. What effect does this have?
- Rewrite a conversation in a more dramatic way, exaggerating actions and using more expressive vocabulary. They could even act it out
- Find compound words and list them.
- Use reading to find words containing consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh).
- Use the text to locate homophones and put them into sentences of their own.
These are only some examples of what can be done at independent stations while working with a guided reading group.
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You can download a printable guide to implementing guided reading with all these ideas and MANY more, along with a guided reading lesson plan and a handy four-day timetable to organise several groups, from here.
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