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Interpretive Activities

From the Web
​​RUN! activity from The Comprehensible Classroom
5 Interpretive tasks from Lisa Shepard
Ohio State of Education list of interpretive activities
Interpretive tasks from Bertha Delgadillo
Pixel Art 
French resources (lots of links to TeachersPayTeachers products)
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Low-Prep/No-Prep, from Lisa Shepard (@mmeshep) 

Annotate a text, 
- important detail
- something I understand
- something that surprised me
- something I don't understand
True / False justification
Have the students answer questions then justify their answers from the text. 
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning
HERE is the inspiration. You may want to give students pre-made claims, then have them find the evidence and reasoning. 
T-Chart
​Main Idea & supporting details
Windows & Mirrors
Read a text, and determine if it reflects their own experiences (mirror) or provides a window into the author's perspectives. 
Picture-Caption matching
​Match the caption to a picture

Interpretive reading from Haylee Ziegler (@senoraziegler) 

Check out her STaRLT presentation and her Wakelet full of activities 
Gallery walk
​Break up larger texts into small chunks and get kids moving around to explore the text
Give me 5
- trace your hand
​- give 5 details about the reading passage
Twitter dialogue
Create tweets based on characters in a text
Sketchnotes
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Podcasts
  • Garbanzo
  • Stories by Senora
  • Duolingo
Stoplight reading
- highlight words you know in green
- highlight words you think you know in yellow
- highlight words you don't know in red
Summarization
Novice-Low/Mid: highlight/copy 5 most important sentences in the text

Novice-high: find 5 sentences then condense the information
EdPuzzle
Tally away
Stop & Jot
AEIOU reflection
A-Adjective
E-Emotion
I- Interesting
O-Oh! Moment
U- Um?
Netflix Summary
Treat the text into an episode or series. Each chapter is an episode in the series, so students create a Netflix preview description
​Listen & Draw
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