Christmas Activities

Here's a sample of websites suitable for Christmas... which is just around the corner.

1. History of Christmas - full of information, a bit wordy, includes pictures and videos.
2. Christmas - a selection by the British Council.
3. Make a Christmas shoebox
4. Christmas on Wikipedia
5. Kiwi Christmas
6. Christmas - Customs and Traditions - Woodlands School
7. Santa's Secret Village
8. Why Christmas?
9. Carol Maker

Draw a Stickman

As the title says and more. Have fun and then let the students have fun.

Create a Quiz

Create a quiz for your website, blog or wiki. Could create follow up comprehension activities, prior knowledge questions, or have the students created their own questions for each other.

Follow that Peach

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

ARB Website

Teaching Tools from ULearn

Teaching Tools by Nardia

Natural Reader

Pic Lits

Myths and Legends Story Creator

Shared Ideas

Sheena Cameron activities for Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies.

• sequencing
• word maps
• character inference chart
• ...

Primary Comprehension Literal - Inferential - Applied

Sparklers Series of Books - chapter books with questions, activities for each chapter. Students work independently on different books. Reading Level 28 ~ 32

Questioning

A comprehensive wiki with everything you need to know about questioning.

Wacky Web Tales

A fun writing based activity which encourages students to use a range of grammar and to read for meaning and understanding.

ABC Teach

This website has a collection of short stories and comprehension questions to go with them. They are graded so you can easily find some for each reading group.

Welcome

This blog is for the middle team at Papatoetoe South School to share ideas, resources and websites to support students' reading comprehension.

If you have ideas to share, let us know.

Cheers