Two NOVEL STUDIES for THE BOY IN THE DRESS and SPACEBOY by David Walliams.
These are engaging and comprehensive units that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
Activities include:
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.
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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Three DAVID WALLIAMS NOVEL STUDIES for The World’s Worst Monsters, The World’s Worst Pets and The World’s Worst Parents.
These are engaging and comprehensive units that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
Activities include:
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.
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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Thank you for your continued support
Three NOVEL STUDIES for THE BOY IN THE DRESS, ICE MONSTER and THE WORLD’S WORST MONSTERS by David Walliams.
These are engaging and comprehensive units that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
Activities include:
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.
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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Thank you for your continued support
Three NOVEL STUDIES for WISHTREE, THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY and WILLODEEN based on the books by Katherine Applegate.
These are engaging and comprehensive units that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
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.
Non-fiction passages with questions
Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including diary writing
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!
Two NOVEL STUDIES for THE BOY IN THE DRESS and ROBODOG by David Walliams.
These are engaging and comprehensive units that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
Activities include:
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.
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!
Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases!
Thank you for your continued support
Three NOVEL STUDIES for THE BOY IN THE DRESS, ROBODOG AND SPACEBOY by David Walliams.
These are engaging and comprehensive units that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
Activities include:
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.
Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, vocabulary work.
Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,
Book response - creative responses, written responses, critical thinking.
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!
Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases!
Thank you for your continued support
NOVEL STUDIES for the all five books in the Spiderwick Chronicles Series; The Field Guide, The Seeing Stone, Lucinda’s Secret, The Ironwood Tree and The Wrath of Mulgarath.
These are engaging and comprehensive units that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
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.
Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including diary writing
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!