This Ella Enchanted Novel Study Unit for the book by Gail Carson Levine includes comprehension questions, vocabulary activities, and a literature guide to help coordinate your book study without extra work for you! Thought-provoking questions are great for generating written responses to literature, and the differentiated formats allow you to target student needs and reduce overwhelm.
Foldable novel study trifolds & journal prompts are provided for Ella Enchanted and are aligned with Common Core Standards and TEKS 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.
Designed as a 3-week book study, your students will be deeply engaged with Ella and her struggle to overcome a curse throughout the book with each day's purposefully matched activity. Running book clubs in your classroom has never been easier!
Your 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 Ella Enchanted Novel Study 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 both printable trifolds and pasteable journal prompts
2) Approachable practice with key reading standards and skills including:
- Generating main ideas and a summary of key events
- Text analysis and responding to literature
- Exploring character traits & development through events of the plot
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions based on text clues
- Utilizing context clues to establish meaning
- Analyzing point of view & its impact on the reader.
- And so much more!
3) Text-based & academic vocabulary
- One target word identified for each day's reading
- Includes opportunity to generate a personal definition and use the word in context
- Fosters connections between vocabulary knowledge through synonyms and antonyms
- Opportunities to make connections to academic vocabulary for daily skills
4) Teacher support materials
- Unit scope & sequence lay out the day's comprehension & vocabulary focus
- Answer Keys for all comprehension activities
- Tips for preparation and implementation