"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.
Depth and Complexity Companion for Number the Stars
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This resource has a lot of potential but I found it a little difficult for my grade 4 students. Thanks.
Do not buy this resource if you are looking for an easy, pre-made system. I had to create copies of every single lesson (10 each) in every single unit (20 total). This took me more than 2 hours JUST TO MAKE COPIES AND PUT THEM IN MY DRIVE. It was not clear that this was what you had to in order to use this format.
Once set up, this resource worked really well! I do like the google forms and they look very professional! I have used these in my classroom and the students do seem to enjoy them.
This started a bridge of seeing how language is formed.
The resource was really amazing; the material itself was on target. It is VERY helpful to have it formatted electronically. BUT...there is no question for "What is your name?". So, a time stamp (wonderfully!) appears on the spreadsheet, but I do not know who submitted the work. Maybe I can fix this without going in and adding a question to each set and a column to every spreadsheet. I would love a solution that won't take me hours. I have already uploaded levels 3-5 for the entire year on Schoology.
Some of these were WAY too hard for starting patterns with my grade 2 kiddos... I only cut and took what I could use with them. Wish this was google slide interactive!
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