Group Reading Activity Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RI.K.10

Core Standard

When students are paired in small groups and asked to read as a collective you will often get some great results. In a positive culture these students will unknowingly exert an unstated peer pressure on one another to succeed at understanding what they are reading. When we work together towards a common goal, we often attribute more value to being successful. These printable worksheets will help focus groups of readers for teachers.

Group Reading Activity Worksheets To Print:

Changing Main Character Traits - You'll need to have an assortment of stories available for you. Read a story to the class where the main character makes a drastic change (grumpy to happy, sad to happy, ect.). Stop reading before the characters makes a change, and let them fill out the first section. Then continue after they are finished.

Conflict & Resolution - Time to work in groups of two or three on this. Pair off into groups of 2‐3. One person reads a story, and then everyone fills out the first section of question on this worksheet.

Story Time Q & A - What questions do you have about what you just read. Write down a few questions you have about the story or book you just read or listened to. Then, as a group, try to answer as many questions as you can.

Story Flower - Work through the flower like wildfire. Pair up with a partner. You each will read a story to each other. The listener will fill in the flower diagram as the reader reads the story.

Setting the Story - Breakdown the story you just read. The setting of the story is where the action is taking place and is usually mentioned in the introduction (exposition). Often, the setting will change throughout the story.

Expanding My Knowledge! - Get together in groups of 3 and agree on a topic that you want to know more about.

Learning about Plots - It usually begins with an introduction, and then the rising action (other events) leads to the climax (usually a problem), which leads to the falling action (other events) and a resolution.

Group Reading Log - Within 1 week, your group should read 3 books with different topics/themes/genres.

What's the Problem? - Pair off into groups of 3 to discuss the story and answer the questions about conflict in the flow chart.

Book Club - After reading or listening to a story, get in groups of three and discuss a few of the following topics.

Taking a Closer Look at the Main Character - As a group, read a short story. Be sure to pay close attention to the characters in the story.

Read & Respond - In pairs or groups, take turns reading a short story or book. These are questions that can be applied to almost all group sessions that you may have.

Then What Happened? - Read or listen to a story. As a group of 3-4, write out the sequence of events in the five boxes.

Group Favorites - Read 1 book that no one else has read and fill out the first 2 rows of the chart.

Rising Action & Falling Action - Read or listen to a story. With a small group, identify the rising action and falling action in the story by answering the questions.

Group Reading Activities You May Want to Try

Reading is an important part of learning at home and in school. Children who read everyday have a larger vocabulary, stronger cognitive abilities and great language skills. At school, kids are learning a lot from their peers in the form of interaction at various levels. The guided reading session takes place in all schools in the presence and supervision of the teacher where she makes sure children can comprehend the reading passage.


Teachers conduct guided group reading sessions and revolve it around many activities to make it interesting for the young ones. These activities provide struggling reader support, builds sight word knowledge and fluency, and develop confidence in interaction through shared reading experience.


- An activity for the week can revolve around the class planning to learn in depth about a new country that has historical significance. The teacher can pile up books pertaining to the topic and students after reading may discuss what all they have learned and inferred from the text.


- A gallery walk is another way to group read and allows children to share their ideas with each other. An open space can be dedicated to pasting information about musical instruments and children can take a walk around to read up about it and share their ideas and choice of musical instruments.


- A small corner in the classroom can be dedicated to books where children and teachers spend some time reading books and one child can volunteer to share his ideas and thoughts about the book he read.


- The children can make crafts and draw characters from the story they have read and can exhibit their imaginative and artistic skills here along with showing signs of comprehending the reading passage well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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