Depth and Complexity Novel Study for Tuck Everlasting
4.9 (461 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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I would have liked more examples and practice in the Slides for the price.
This is a great resource for my students!
My students needed the practice applying commas and capitalizing addresses. The many exercises helped them review.
The resource has everything you need to introduce concept. Thank you.
I purchased this content on paper and saw a need for it digitally, so I came back to purchase this. The format for some of the digital activities is difficult for my students. For example, in exercise A the author simply put a picture of the worksheet that had previously been created and asks the students to refer back and forth to that picture to answer the multiple-choice questions. It's difficult for many people (not just students) to scroll over through 10 different words and electronically choose the correct bubble without accidentally going up or down one and clicking on the wrong answer. I am taking the time to create my own digital Google Forms with each of the 10 questions typed in and drop-down answers, which defeated the purpose of purchasing this. I am using the content from the author though. They are good materials.
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.




