"Book Bits": a Fun Pre-reading Activity for Where the Red Fern Grows
4.9 (70 reviews)“Book Bits” are carefully selected snippets of information from the book. There are 52 “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
- Grade
- Grade 5
- Subject
- Reading
- Pages
- 11
- Answer key
- N/A
- Teaching duration
- 3 Days
- Digital download
Description
“Book Bits” are carefully selected snippets of information from the book. There are 52 “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 Where the Red Fern Grows
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I love using icons! This unit will be incredibly helpful as my district moves to Common Core next year because it allows us to use literature that aligns with Social Studies content.
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Thank you! Such a great book.
Excellent. Very useful.
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Thanks for this. It's very useful.
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Excellent! One of the best I've seen for Lit Circles! Thanks!
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Can't wait to use these with my high ability class next year. Wonderful!!
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Oh Man! That moment when you are working on an awesome project and then you are adding awesome products in a new seller you start following into your basket and then find the project you were working on! Darn! lol I had called mine Story Snippets lol well shoot... guess I can use them in my classroom at least :) Love your stuff! Your newest follower. I was going to ask if the depth and complexity symbols or names have any sort of copyright on them? Our district is wanting more depth and complexity resources but I have been afraid to even use the titles of them for fear of copyright. Have you found anything about that? Thanks!
Thanks for your interest.
Depth and Complexity was developed by Sandra Kapplan and Bette Gould under a US Dept of Ed Grant in the 1990s.
Best of luck.
