Reading activities

Reading actvities

Pre-Reading

• Using visual/audio prompts to guess or raise a topic
• Eliciting personal opinion
• Eliciting prior knowledge on a topic
• Prediction
• Pre-teaching vocabulary

WHILE reading

• Listen and read
• 'Flashing' the text (looking just for a second)
• Setting short reading time limits
• Viewing part of the text at a time (e.g. through a big keyhole on a blank page)
• Gap fills
• Comprehension questions
• Matching headings
• Matching phrases/ paragraphs to pictures

post-reading

• Discussion
• Interview
• Role-play
• Debate
• Writing a similar text
• Writing a review
• Writing a report
• Writing a letter
• Writing a continuation of the article/story
• Doing further research on the topic
• Making a minibook (key scenes in the story) 



• Doing a project (e.g. craft, display, poster etc)