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"Book Bits": a Fun Pre-reading Activity for The Lightning Thief

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“Book Bits” are carefully selected snippets of information from the book. There are 50 “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 al

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Grade 5
Subject
Reading
Pages
11
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Teaching duration
3 Days
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“Book Bits” are carefully selected snippets of information from the book. There are 50 “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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Mike B.

I love your stuff but I feel like these have a lot of errors. We have only done four and found errors on two. For example on #3 there is not enough information to solve this. There is no way to tell if the small rhombus or the hexagon is the shape out of frame. I need something that I can leave my son with and I don’t need to be helping or correcting instructions. Was hoping to get money back so I can try you fractions or something else.

Teacher Thrive

Hello! I am not sure which other errors you are referring to, but clue 4 on card 3 (The quadrilaterals are not adjacent to each other.) would exclude the small rhombus from being in the frame. Please email me if you have any questions. GotToTeach@icloud.com

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Encarna L.

Material is interesting, but mainly based on task cards and problem activities. Being a bundle, I was expecting more instructional strategies, evaluation rubrics, etc.

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Kimberly G.

I just purchased "Book Bits" for The Lightning Thief and the document is failing to load. I have tired on multiple computers and have the same problem. Is there another way you can send the document. I would love to use this with my students next week if possible.

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Hello! Please make sure you are opening the file with the latest version of Adobe Reader. If this does not resolve the issue, contact tpt and the will get it figured out for you.

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