This 3-week Hoot Novel Study is designed to be student-friendly and engaging, while focusing on the most important aspects of reading comprehension and building stronger vocabularies.
Don't bore students with never-ending chapter comprehension questions, instead focus on key comprehension skills and dive deep into the plot and core features of the text in a student-friendly format that even reluctant learners will love. Add in the fact that Hoot has been made into a movie so you can do a comparative analysis, and you've got the makings of an amazing book unit.
These Hoot novel study activities are standards-aligned to build essential reading comprehension in a book club format that can be done with your whole class, in small groups, or as an individual book study.
This Hoot novel study download includes:
✔Daily comprehension prompts in 2 formats for differentiation
- Foldable trifold brochures
- Cut & paste journal prompts for interactive notebooks
✔Weekly word of the day flip books for text-based vocabulary
✔ Easy-to-follow directions for printing & prep
✔ Instructional planning guide
✔Answer keys
In this Hoot Novel Unit you'll find:
1) Student comprehension practice (up to 15 instructional days)
- Each day's work focuses on a single standards-based comprehension skill
- Short, written responses include opportunities to apply thinking to text
- Designed with reluctant and struggling learners in mind
- Built-in graphic organizers to support skill acquisition
- Approachable questions help make connections & start conversations
- No boring multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions!
- Available in student-friendly trifolds or cut & paste reading journal prompts
2) Approachable practice with key reading standards and skills including:
- Text analysis and responding to literature
- Exploring how point of view influences the reader's understanding of the plot
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions based on text clues
- Analyzing problems and solutions
- Examining character development & relationships through plot & character interactions
- Exploring theme and author's message
- Generating a summary of key events
- And so much more!
3) Text-based & academic vocabulary
- One target word identified for each day's reading
- Includes opportunity to use the word in context
- Opportunities to make connections to academic vocabulary for daily skills
4) Teacher support materials
- Unit scope & sequence lays out the day's comprehension & vocabulary focus
- Answer Keys for all comprehension activities
- Tips for preparation and implementation
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