All fiction stories have:
Characters-Who's in the story?
Settings-Where are they? When is it? What's it like?
Events- What happens in the beginning, middle, or end.
Problem-What's wrong? (Types of problems are it's own post)
Solution-What fixed it?
Yesterday in the Book Nook, we learned about key details with Giraffe and Bird Together Again. There are so many great things I have to say about this text! First, my reader loved the characters. Giraffe and Bird have such distinct characteristics making this a perfect book for character analysis and comparisons. Not to mention, the map in the beginning makes it a perfect book for teaching all about settings. The exciting adventures and climax make this is a great book to talk about plot, too. Some parts even use ordinal words like "first" and "next" so teaching sequence of events is a breeze. And the fun, vibrant illustrations cracked my reader up and made it a great book to reinforce the importance of
using clues from the text and the pictures both to get information. Shout out to the author. See below for the pictures of how we mapped out the key details in the story. After we read, my reader retold the key events in the story using ordinal words.
I use fiction books to teach readers the reading comprehension skills of attending to key details, retelling key details, answering questions about key details and sequence of events.
I am so excited about how @epic4educators books have been making Mrs. B's Reading Room an exciting place this summer.
Here are some fun things you can do to engage your reader in active reading.
Characters:
Compare and contrast similar characters from different stories.
Compare and contrast character in the same story.
Describe your favorite characters from stories.
Create a new character for a story.
Describe your least favorite characters in the story.
Guess who the character is by their defining attributes
Setting:
Recreate the setting
Visualize the setting and draw a picture
Retell the story in a new setting
Retell the details of setting
Events:
Retell the details in the correct order
Reorder the scrambled details
Fill in the missing details
Retell the details from the beginning, middle, and end in a six-part story retell.
Answer true/false questions about the events.
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