Independent Reading Tasks learning Aids Lots of Ideas

Gathered together some great ideas for guided reading and Independent reading.

Flexible for all years.

Get them doing tasks whilst you help different groups.

example :

During guided reading your teacher and teaching assistant(s) will be listening to different groups read, and work with children to improve reading and comprehension skills. There will often be one or 2 groups that will work independently. This sheet has lots of activities for you to complete if you are working on your own for the lesson. You can do the activities in any order, but you will need to tick them off and fill in the dates when you worked on the activities so your teacher can check them. You will need to keep your sheets in your folder – make sure you number your work with the activity number too! For most of the activities you will need either your current reading book, one you have read recently, or one you know quite well.

Write a letter as a character in your book to either another character in your book, a new invented character or a real-life character.

Write a letter from yourself to a character in your book.

Write a letter to the author of your book – you could say what you like or dislike about the book, or give ideas for what else you would like included in the book.

Have a go at drawing a map of one of the places in the story. See how much you can include and how much detail you can add.

Pretend you are a travel agent and want people to visit the place in the story. Write a paragraph on what you would tell others.

Re-tell an event from the story from another characters point of view. For example, if Jenny is visiting a haunted castle with her wimpy brother Joe, can you change it from Jenny’s point of view to Joe’s?
Re-tell an event from the story as if you are a newspaper reporter and you are writing a newspaper article.
Imagine you could interview a character in your story – what would you ask them? What would their replies be? Write your interview with your character. Set it out so you use 2 different colours for your questions and your character’s answers.
Write the diary entry (or several) for a character in your story after something interesting has happened. Have a go at writing a second diary entry for a different character.
Have a go at continuing the story after the end of the book. What might happen next?