TURTLE MOON Novel Study based on the book by Hannah Gold

A NOVEL STUDY for TURTLE MOON based on the book by Hannah Gold.

This 80 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 novel study also includes six non-fiction passages with questions relevant to the story.

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 section 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 or follow-up to the book.

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.
Applying and Synthesising - engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story.
6 non-fiction passages with questions – Costa Rica, Leatherback Turtles, Hatchlings, Banana spiders, Jaguars and Sloths.
Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including 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!

This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.