Depth and Complexity Novel Study for Tuck Everlasting
4.9 (460 reviews)Reading and Responding to Tuck Everlasting with Depth and Complexity! Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting. This critical thinking companion resource is designed to “dig deeper” when compared to traditional novel…
- Grade
- Grade 5, Grade 6
- Subject
- Reading
- Pages
- 24
- Answer key
- Not Included
- Teaching duration
- 4 Weeks
- Digital download
Description
Reading and Responding to Tuck Everlasting with Depth and Complexity!
Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting. 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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Materials are good, but they focus in just a few strategies of critical thinking, used repeteadly. I miss some more depth and breath on thinking teaching
Very nice product.
I took a chance on this.....I was hoping for something that the student could use independently. But it's created for the classroom where the teacher would speak as s(he) "flips" through the slides.
I'll still use it in my own direct instruction.
I like this, I would love it if I could move things around to match when my kids learn concepts. I don't want kids to have an activity that I would use as a morning work, individual, on-their-own, to frustrate them because this has fractions before they've learned them, or whatever. I had kids who became very frustrated by the fact that they hadn't learned something at the beginning of the year, but it was introduced in this packet. It also meant I had to either do a mini-lesson for them, weeks before something was introduced, or just show them how something was solved when we went over the answers, rather than letting them figure it out, because it was a morning activity. I don't like that about this product. I understand about copyright, however, there are other sellers and products that do allow editing, which I've since purchased so that I CAN tailor to my classes. This was somewhat of a waste of money.
Hello. I hope you will find a use for this in your classroom at some time in the year. I understand your desire to prevent your students from becoming frustrated. I have always found it beneficial to present unfamiliar concepts to my students, as this is representative of "real life". I can assure you that if you do use the first few weeks of the resource as a a guided instruction opportunity (see teaching notes), your kids will catch on in not time and be off and running. Also, please note that an entire 2 weeks is provided in the preview. Best of luck with your school year!
Good resource.
The roles are really clear and the students responded well. I am using these also for information texts.
Questions & Answers (6)
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Is there an answer key available?
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.
Could you make a depth and complexity novel study for the book "Ungifted"?
Hi Natalie! Thanks for your interest! I don't have plans to create this at this time, but I will keep this in mind for future projects.
Is there any way to make this digital so that my students can fill it in directly on Google Classroom rather than printing it out?
Hi Erika,
Unfortunately, we are not able to create the digital versions of these at this time. You are more than welcome to use the printable versions you own to create your own Google Slides to use with your students only.
is this resource usable with other books?? can I apply it to any book we are reading or is it only specific to Tuck Everlasting??
Hi Zeinab! This is only for Tuck Everlasting. If you are looking for a more universal resource, you may want to check out this: https://teacherthrive.com/product/depth-and-complexity-task-cards-for-literature/
This downloaded as only one page with clip art.
Hi! Please make sure you are opening and printing the file from the latest version of Adobe reader.
I just wanted to let you know that the cover page is for Tuck Everlasting, but the description is for The Giver :-)
Thanks, Danielle, for letting me know!! I just fixed it.
