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ALT Activities & Games to support literacy skills
ALT Paraphrase Game Players describe nouns so that other players can guess them. This game provides practice using paraphrasing strategies. Reading Race- Track Teach students how to recognize sight words, which helps students read effortlessly and focus on decoding difficult words.
ALT Word Match Match nouns and adjectives to expand their vocabulary skills and morpheme awareness. LIFTER Coloring Sheets Pair letter transcription practice with a fun coloring activity!
ALT Bookmarks & Book Inserts to facilitate reading strategies and dialogic reading
ALT CROWD Bookmarks CROWD is used to remember the types of basic questions to ask to facilitate dialogic reading: completion, recall, open-ended, “wh” questions, and distancing. IDEA Bookmarks The IDEA strategy uses four key components drawn from research that caregivers can easily implement to teach and practice literacy skills when reading to children at home.
ALT Interactive Reading Guide Book Inserts This guide can be put in any book to help plan new vocabulary and questions you want to include when reading with children in order to facilitate dialogic reading. PEER Bookmarks PEER questions (prompt, evaluate, expand, repeat) are meant to encourage deeper responses about a text during dialogic reading, leading to a conversation beyond one-word answers.
