"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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Excellent note only missing one thing
I love using this in class, it would be perfect if it included an exit ticket portion, I love the power point piece and how brightly colored it is i just feel as it would be more complete with the independent practice.
Super fun and engaging Book Bit
This was super helpful and a great resource before we started the book. It's great and the kids were hooked and super engaged!
Complete Resource
Almost everything you need to teach idioms, adages, and proverbs. It still left me with some questions about the clear differences between adages and proverbs, but it had plenty of examples to help me decipher the difference. Overall, I think this is a tricky standard, and this helped to clarify.
Would be great for an easily-engaged class!
I think that this resource would be awesome if you had kids who were easily bought into learning. I haven't used it yet because I worry that it will fall on deaf ears with my current group, but will be utilizing it eventually!
Thank you!!!
This resource was easy to use and well-organized. My students were engaged and clearly understood the lesson objectives. It saved me a lot of prep time and aligned well with what I needed to teach. I would definitely recommend this to other teachers!
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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.
