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Depth and Complexity Novel Study for The Lightning Thief

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Reading and Responding to The Lightning Thief with Depth and Complexity! Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. This critical thinking companion resource is designed to “dig deeper” when compared to traditional novel…

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Grade
Grade 5, Grade 6
Subject
Reading
Pages
24
Answer key
Not Included
Teaching duration
4 Weeks
Digital download
PDF

Description

Reading and Responding to The Lightning Thief with Depth and Complexity!

Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 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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Reviews

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439 reviews

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Teacher Life - Fire Wife

worked great for us

Such a great resource for novel study. My students really enjoyed it.

Gina B.

Great resource

I bought this to go along with our novel study.

Lit on Language

Well-crafted Resource

Material is well-connected and applicable to the work we are doing with the novel.

Paige Newman

great resource

This was very helpful in my classroom. I highly recommend this resource.

Alexis M.

Great resource to engage gifted students. Higher level questions were just what they needed to enrich the novel study.

Questions & Answers (4)

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Anonymous

The answer key

LaDonna H.

I saw this suggestion under the comments, but I would like to suggest the same thing. Our school grades ONLY on standards and does not give a letter grade or percentage so if you added the standard to each activity, then it would be my go to resource teaching "The Lightning Thief!" I know there are a lot of schools that do the same, so adding them to every resource would put it over the top for me. I would be most grateful :)

Teacher Thrive

Hi LaDonna. Thank you for the suggestion. I will definitely consider it for a possible update.

You're Speaking My "Lang"uage--ELA Resources

Does this product cover each chapter of the novel?

Teacher Thrive

Hello! Yes it does.

Jenna Bludworth

Does this come with recommended answers?

Teacher Thrive

There is no recommended answers included. The questions can be answered in multiple and even opposing ways.

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