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Reading volume and academic vocabulary — Take-Home — 9th Grade Reads widely outside assigned texts and deliberately collects academic vocabulary. This one-page 9th Grade take-home carries the two-minute check that tells you whether the skill is wobbly, then "Twenty Minutes, Their Choice" — 20 minutes with anything they'd genuinely choose — plus what to say…
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Reading volume and academic vocabulary LITERACY · 9TH GRADE Name Date TAKE-HOME PRACTICE Reading · 9th Grade 20 minutes WHAT THIS BUILDS Reads widely outside assigned texts and deliberately collects academic vocabulary. 1 THE TWO-MINUTE CHECK ASK "What have you read this month that nobody made you read?" A SOLID ANSWER Something real — a book, long articles, quality journalism. Not yet Getting there Solid 2 TWENTY MINUTES, THEIR CHOICE You need: Anything they'd genuinely choose Let the choice be entirely theirs, including formats you'd rather they didn't pick. Twenty minutes, phone in another room. Keep a vocabulary list of words met in the wild, with the sentence they appeared in. Once a week, use three of them in conversation deliberately. Read something demanding alongside them and talk about it as equals. SAY THIS WHEN IT STALLS "You pick. I genuinely don't mind what it is — I mind that you're reading something." Ten minutes, and audiobooks fully count. Read one book outside their comfort zone per term and write a short response. IF IT'S TOO HARD IF IT'S TOO EASY Did it M T W T F Full year of take-homes: www.littleactivity.com/takehome/grade-9 www.littleactivity.com 9th Grade · Literacy
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Reading volume and academic vocabulary LITERACY · 9TH GRADE Name Date TAKE-HOME PRACTICE Reading · 9th Grade 20 minutes WHAT THIS BUILDS Reads widely outside assigned texts and deliberately collects academic vocabulary. 1 THE TWO-MINUTE CHECK ASK "What have you read this month that nobody made you read?" A SOLID ANSWER Something real — a book, long articles, quality journalism. Not yet Getting there Solid 2 TWENTY MINUTES, THEIR CHOICE You need: Anything they'd genuinely choose Let the choice be entirely theirs, including formats you'd rather they didn't pick. Twenty minutes, phone in another room. Keep a vocabulary list of words met in the wild, with the sentence they appeared in. Once a week, use three of them in conversation deliberately. Read something demanding alongside them and talk about it as equals. SAY THIS WHEN IT STALLS "You pick. I genuinely don't mind what it is — I mind that you're reading something." Ten minutes, and audiobooks fully count. Read one book outside their comfort zone per term and write a short response. IF IT'S TOO HARD IF IT'S TOO EASY Did it M T W T F Full year of take-homes: www.littleactivity.com/takehome/grade-9 www.littleactivity.com 9th Grade · Literacy
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