Read-a-thon Activity

As part of our Reading Marathon, students practiced using their reading strategies. The follow-up activity is due on Monday. Here is a reminder of the tasks required for each strategy/block:

New Cover (Visualization) - good readers create mental pictures/videos of what they read - create a new cover for the novel (remember all the different text features of a cover: title, author's name, illustration, optional tagline/additional information), making sure it would appeal to the target audience of the book	Prediction - make predictions (at least 2) about what will happen next in the book	Questions - ask 3 “juicy” questions from the book - remember “juicy” questions are ones that require more thinking and inferring (e.g., not ones where the answers that are “right there” in the book)
Character Analysis - draw a picture of the main character from your book - identify 4 character traits that describes him/her - support each character trait with evidence from the book	Connection - make 2 different connections (TTS, TTT, TTW) - remember to explain your connection using evidence from the text	Summary - once you have finished your book, write a summary of the book - remember to include the main idea and important details (it should be about a paragraph long, so choose only the important details)