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- Here are FIVE Innovative Activities for Any Novel Unit! Each of these activities and projects can be found in the The Ultimate Novel Study Bundle: 50 Projects and Assignments for ANY NOVEL.
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Oct 5, 2018 · Here are FIVE Innovative Activities for Any Novel Unit! Each of these activities and projects can be found in the The Ultimate Novel Study Bundle: 50 Projects and Assignments for ANY NOVEL. Novel Task Cards.
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Incorporating engaging, hands-on activities for novels or short stories can breathe new life into any ELA unit! If you’re looking to get out of the book report rut, differentiate a novel study for learners of all abilities, inspire students to engage more deeply with their reading, or get a squirrelly class up and moving, a little bit of ...
- Try Hexagonal Thinking
- Pair It with Poetry
- Combine Choice Reading with Whole Class Novels
- Design An App
- Try A Character Map
- Pair It with Nonfiction
- Try A Silent Discussion
Hexagonal thinking is like a Chipotle burrito – stuffed with possibility! There are so many ways to use hexagonal thinking as you approach a novel unit. You can use it as a pre-reading strategy to help students prepare for the novel, to make connections between topics that will come up and themes your students are already familiar with. You can use...
This might not come as a surprise to you, but Amanda from Mud and Ink Teaching swears by integrating poetry within bigger units rather than saving it for its own stand alone unit. Poetry paired with characters, genre, setting, or theme can offer powerfully impactful conversations that give students a new perspective and lens to use when looking at ...
Teaching a whole class novel unit has many benefits but if your unit goes over four weeks, it can become time consuming and an infringement upon student reading choice. But, there is a way to allow students to continue their independent reading lives while also reading a whole class novel. Amanda from amandawritenow.com calls this method Whole Clas...
“Time to visit the app store!” Krista from @whimsyandrigor says to her students when they finish a novel. When their perplexed looks are at their peak, she explains that they are going to create an app that would have helped the protagonist during their journey. The requirements are: The app cannot already exist. The app can be totally unrealistic/...
For novel studies on books (or plays) with a number of characters, Molly at The Littlest Teacherloves using character maps. Providing a character map will serve your students in a couple of ways: they show relationships between characters to provide clarity as students read and eliminate the frustration of “wait, who is this dude again?”; and they ...
Guiding students through the study of a novel can be a daunting task for many reasons, but Samantha fromSamantha in Secondary has a tip to make at least one aspect easier—making the text relevant. Pairing nonfiction text on important themes throughout a novel is an easy way to show students how literature connects to life. Discussing censorship dur...
Elizabeth, fromTeaching Sam & Scout, loves to end novel units with Socratic Seminars, but “Silent Discussions” in the middle of a whole-class novel read are a great way to check on reading comprehension, get EVERY student participating in discussion, and scaffold some deeper critical thinking skills. The activity is super simple to implement and le...
Jun 24, 2024 · Novel units are a must-have addition to your middle school teacher toolbox. They help teachers focus on reading standards while also providing engagement, focus, connection, and clarity to readers.
- CURRICULUM MAPPING. Before you start penciling in all of these engaging activities, sit down to map out the “big picture.” Amanda Cardenas from Mud and Ink Teaching says that the first thing she does for every novel unit is get a clear picture of what direction the map for the unit is.
- LEARNING STATIONS. Learning stations will enhance your novel units in ways that traditional whole-class teaching just can’t! Searching for a engaging pre-reading activity to preview setting, characters, and context?
- ONE-PAGERS. A one-pager is a creative response to reading that students enjoy and that doesn’t take teachers eons to grade. But it must be scaffolded for many students.
- “WHAT STUCK WITH YOU?” ACTIVITY WITH STICKY NOTES. Need a quick engaging activity or informal assessment? Grab the sticky notes! Lauralee from the Language Arts Classroom asks her students to find what is meaningful or what has “stuck” with them regarding the novel.
Create exciting activities for the major literary elements and have a new activity each day of the unit or sprinkle them throughout the novel unit. Check out my ideas for nine major elements below: Setting: Time-Travel Tour
Nov 16, 2016 · Whether your students are reading the novel as a whole-class, in guided reading groups, in literature circles, or even as individuals, there are some activities that work great with almost any novel. And, in this post, I'm going to share 6 activities that I have used over and over in the different novels that I have read with my own students.
