"Book Bits": a Fun Pre-reading Activity for Number the Stars
4.9 (210 reviews)Pique student interest and activate critical thinking before beginning a novel-study unit! "Book Bits" are carefully selected snippets of information from the book. There are 47 “Book Bits”, however, you will only need one for each student; you can pick and choose which ones you like the most. 1.…
- Grade
- Grade 6
- Subject
- Reading
- Pages
- 11
- Answer key
- N/A
- Teaching duration
- 3 Days
- Digital download
Description
Pique student interest and activate critical thinking before beginning a novel-study unit!
“Book Bits” are carefully selected snippets of information from the book. There are 47 “Book Bits”, however, you will only need one for each student; you can pick and choose which ones you like the most.
1. Give each student a “Book Bit”. The students will read their individual “Book Bits” and be allowed a little time to ponder and reflect on what they say (e.g., What impressions are they gathering about the book?).
2. Have the students move around the classroom, reading their “Book Bit” to every other student, while also listening to the other students’ “Book Bits”. No discussion or interpretation occurs at this point; they are simply reading to each other.
3. After hearing the other students’ “Book Bits”, students can then do a quick write on the impressions they now have about the book (What is this book about? What can we infer about the characters?, What might happen in the story? etc.)
4. After the quick write, students can discuss with each other in pairs, small groups, and eventually whole group.
5. The “Book Bit” quick write can then be revisited after students have read more of the book, or have completed the book.
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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.
THERE ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MANY MISTAKES.
<p>Hi Terry, I recieved your question about the Correlative Conjunctions unit. I have corrected the duplicate number 9 on the assessment. </p><p>However, number 11 doesn't have an erroe: "Neither my mom nor my sisters are going camping this weekend." is grammatically correct. </p><p>I am not sure what other errors you are referring to. After 5 years of publishing this resource, I have never heard from teachers about "SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MANY MISTAKES."</p>
I have loved all the grammar resources. This was the first resource where the PPT was acting all goofy. The underlining did not match the correct phrase.
Attractively formatted, but some of the language was pretty objectionable (dorky? annoying?) as were the messages in some of the fictional stories, and it is hard to copy and paste revisions over it so that I can use these things without fear of getting in trouble from the administration.
A good resource but terrible wording, I thought this was in pdf form but it’s only google slides, I asked if I could get the pdf and she said no
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