A NOVEL STUDY for WANDI by Favel Parrett.
This 51 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each chapter after they have read it. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of Curriculum Standards in context.
This novel study is ideal as an independent activity during students’ literacy sessions.
AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED
Activities include:
Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, cause and effect, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
Applying and Synthesising - engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story.
Research - relevant to the story including Dingoes and Eagles.
Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including persuasive writing, diary writing and personal narrative.
Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues
All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!
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