Reading Tutor 120

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Warm Ups

Use a simple and effective warm up at the beginning of every lesson. It helps to ease students into the lesson and it also help to establish a routine.

Animals A to Z Students learn interesting facts about animals they know (and some animals they don't know) as they reinforce basic skills of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

These work sheets are also excellent test-preparation tools. The skills emphasized in the series are those found on all standardized tests: simple word usage, end-of-sentence punctuation, comma placement in a series, basic spelling, and others.

You must print out a few of these on Fridays in the BBT lab. When you print out the printable version it does not give you the corrections so you must make sure you print the corrections too.

Everyday Edits

These are a little harder than the Animal A to Z edits. Be careful if you are using them with high school students. Search for the ones that are more age appropriate.

Noun-Mania

Builds vocabulary and spelling skills

Start students with a noun. Example: house They write that word at the top of a sheet of paper. Say "Go!" and students will extend their list by writing a noun that begins with the last letter of the noun before it. The activity continues. The person with the longest list of nouns at the end of three minutes is the winner. (Example: house, elephant, toe, egg, gerbil, ladder, road, dollar, robot) Verify that all words are nouns. This comes from the Education World Site and you can link to it from the above links.

Sight Words Activities When you have found out what sight words your student needs to practice you can start each lesson by reviewing these on cue cards. You could also make word searches out of these words.

Vocabulary Builders

Ask students to create a list of all the words they can think of that start with a certain letter. Or, all the words that describe things that are round, things that move, things that you can eat, animals, weather words...etc. You can time them or give them 1 min. to create thier list. Spelling doesn't count but they do have to correct thier list with you after the 1 min. is up.

Vocab-u-lous! Activity Sheets

These are quite difficult but still worth a try for high school students.