Reading Activities...
Box and BulletsRemember our favorite Nonfiction strategy? That's right it's the box and bullet strategy! This was a Room 117 specialty! Click the button below to review this strategy.
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Main Topic of a BookLet's practice how to find the main topic of a Nonfiction book. Here are some hints that will help you find the main topic of your book! Click the button below.
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Main Topic of a SectionNow that we know how to find the main topic a whole book, let's move onto chapter books! Click the link below to find the main topic of a part of a story.
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Retell Your StoryUsing the read aloud of The Trouble With Grownups from above or a book from home, retell your story. All you need is five fingers and five minutes. Click the link below to learn how to do this!
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Plan A PartyUsing the read aloud of The Trouble With Grownups from above or a book from home, let's think about the characters. Who was the main character in your story? If you could plan a party for that character, what kind of party would it be? Click the link below to see this activity!
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T-Shirt DesignUsing the read aloud of The Trouble With Grownups from above or a book from home, think about the most important part of the book. What characters were there? What was happening in the story? Let's design a t-shirt of that important event from your story. Click the link below to learn how to do the t-shirt design!
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What's the lesson?Watch me read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein in the video clip above. Your goal is to identify the lesson of this book. What can you learn from this book that you can use in your own life? What is the author trying to teach you?
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CharactersChoose a character from The Giving Tree. It can be the boy or the tree. Choose one word that describes this character. List this character trait. Give two examples from the story that proves why described the character this way.
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Create your own ending!Today you get to be the author! The Giving Tree ends with the boy as an old man sitting on the tree stump. Write a different ending for this book. Start at the middle and create a new way for this story to end!
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