Students practice functional reading, by doing a silent scavenger hunt. Students bring a food label to class and practice reading by silently exchanging food labels and finding and writing down information such as "Find a product with over 10 grams of Fat."

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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
