Depth and Complexity Novel Study for The Giver
4.9 (541 reviews)Reading and Responding to The Giver and Complexity!Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver. This critical thinking companion resource is designed to “dig deeper” when compared to traditional novel worksheets available. Each chapter has
- Grade
- Grade 7
- Subject
- Reading
- Pages
- 24
- Answer key
- Not Included
- Teaching duration
- 4 Weeks
- Digital download
Description
Reading and Responding to The Giver and Complexity!
Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver. This critical thinking companion resource is designed to “dig deeper” when compared to traditional novel worksheets available. Each chapter has a unique graphic organizer that contains 4 critical thinking questions questions and 1 related “Core Question”. All questions within the graphic organizers are open-ended, can be answered in multiple ways, and encourage textual support from the book.
This teaching tool can be applied in multiple ways…
*”Expert Group” Sharing
*”Jig Saw” Activity
*Whole-Class “Shared Reading”
*”Think-Pair-Shares”
*”Literature Circle” Activity
*Writing Prompts
*Assessments
➡FREE Depth and Complexity Posters
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IMPORTANT: This resource has recently been reformatted. Please read through the product description carefully and download the preview to see exactly what is included.
This resource was created based on the Depth and Complexity framework, which was developed by Dr. Sandra Kaplan under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement: 1996
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Good resource to reinforce grammar skills with students.
This grammar bundle has quickly become my go to curriculum for grammar. I absolutely love it. I start out with showing the slides and having students participate. The next day two days, we work on task cards together. We do one assessment/practice sheet in class and one goes home for homework. We also complete the organizer/notes sheet. Each skill's resources are perfect for focusing on for a full week. This has become a game changer for me in teacher grammar to my 3rd grade class. Thank you so much! Update: The suffixes sketch notes does not print properly. The seller recommended using Adobe; this did not work for me (tried at home). My school system does not allow me to download it either. Every other one opens and prints properly. Additionally, a few fonts may need to be downloaded in order for the slides to work properly. While I love this resource, I more so love receiving a "plug and play" product after paying a healthy amount for it. I have updated my review due to the hassle. I've wasted so much time just trying to print one page without the answers showing up on the student's worksheet.
When I imagine "sketch notes" I envision something with more graphics to it. These notes feel like organized chaos and are not very user friendly for my learning disabled students.
<p>HelloHeidi! Thanks for the feedback. I provide full previews of each set of notes included in this bundle so that teachers can assess whether the resource is suitable for their students. </p><p></p>
It's very cumbersome for students with disabilities. I have used it, however, to ask critical thinking questions.
Once kids got the hang of lap books, this resource was useful for meeting the diverse learning needs in the classroom.
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Would you consider doing a novel study for The Indian in the Cupboard?? Love your resources!
Hello Dayna!
Thank you for the kind words and for taking the time to reach out. At this time, I don't have plans to create new novel units. However, if my schedule allows in the future, I will make sure to consider The Indian in the Cupboard.
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I'd like to purchase this resource, but have noticed a few grammatical errors, for example 'affect' instead of 'effect' and 'eg.,'
Is there any way to modify this?
Unfortunately, I am unable to provide an editable version of this resource because I created it using Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. If you believe you have found an error, I’m am happy to update the resource.
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Answer key
I purchased this resource and was looking for an answer key for it. Is there one? Or one that has examples of possible answers?
Hello, Bree! These do not include sample answers since the questions are so open-ended. Most of the questions can be answered in multiple, and even conflicting, ways.
Which chapters are included in the purchased version?
