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Low Prep Reading Activities

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Something I have not been as great about doing during these Covid times has been reading novels.  My hope is that next school year I will get back to them again.  We are currently reading a novel in my level 3 and 4 AP classes and the plan is to read one in German 1 before the end of the year.  As I've said before, I am so impressed by my students and what that notice and ask about whenever we read a longer text.  They always ask great questions about the grammar and punctuation because they are seeing so much of the language.  Here are some of the activites that I like to do either after reading a section or to start the next day to remember what we read the during the previous class. Some of the fastest and simplest activties we do are 2 truths and a lie.   Students write 2 things that happened in the chapter and 1 thing that did not.  They read them outloud and classmates say which is the lie.  Another well liked activity is social media posts with hashtags from the main charac