Activity Books

The five Activity Books are designed with plenty of student appeal! Thematic illustrations enhance the activities, whether students are reading a passage, working with a partner, or recording their ideas.

See an Activity Book page from each unit:

• Unit 1, Page 5 (1.48 MB PDF): The student discriminates between expository and narrative text.
• Unit 2, Page 1 (773 KB PDF): The student makes connections between their prior knowledge and the text.
• Unit 3, Page 15 (599 KB PDF): The student records predictions.
• Unit 4, Page 12 (850 KB PDF): The student evaluates summaries.
• Unit 5, Page 2 (781 KB PDF): The student identifies what doesn't make sense in the text.

Trade Books

To master the strategies, students need to practice them within authentic contexts. These four trade books are integrated into the Digging Reading curriculum:

• Unit 2: Bird Boy by Elizabeth Starr Hill
• Unit 3: Frindle by Andrew Clements
• Unit 4: Twisters and Other Terrible Storms by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne
• Unit 5: The Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets by Jean Craighead George

 

 

Quizzes

Each week of instruction ends with a quiz. The short, 5-question quizzes at the end of Weeks 1 and 2 test only the strategy of the week. Week 3 concludes with a 10-question quiz on all the strategies taught thus far. There are 11 quizzes in all.

See a quiz sample. (552 KB PDF)

 

 

 

 

Final Test

The final test assesses the students' knowledge of the strategies and their ability to apply what they've learned.

See sample knowledge (75 KB PDF) and application (74 KB PDF) questions from the final test.