Suggested Activities For Model Novel Study Plan
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Suggested Activities for Model Novel Study Plan– 4 week unit – Middle School – Grades 6 – 7 – 8
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Word Jars
Word Jars is an activity where the students return to the text to skim and find words and phrases that
are significant to plot concepts. The students also have the opportunity to see spectrum of the
vocabulary benchmark in context.
1.
Divide the students into 6 groups. Assign each group a category of words.
sensory words
vivid verbs
adjectives describing character(s)
words with positive/negative connotations
2.
Pass out a large sheet of chart paper to each group with a colored marker.
3.
Direct students to scan a selected chapter to locate the appropriate words from the text to
list on their chart paper.
4.
Have students present their charts to the rest of the class and give rationale if necessary.
Note that some words may be in more than one category.
Context Clues Chart
This document summarizes common context clues including:
restatement or synonym clues
contrast or antonym clues
comparison
examples
lists or series
cause and effect
description or inference
Character Frame/Character Map
These graphics are used to examine the character traits of physical description (outside details),
personality traits (inside details) actions which support that trait.
Model on the overhead how to complete the frame.
Students reread to complete the frame.
When the pairs or teams have completed the frame, each team should present and explain
their thinking. Accept all feasible responses. Be careful to correct any misconceptions
through class discussion.
Decision Director Graphic – Cause-and-Effect Chain
1.
Explain directions to the students and model the first box of the Decision Director graphic
organizer.
2.
Model how to complete the Decision Director graphic organizer.
3.
Tell students to complete the decision director graphic organizer.
4.
Ask students to share and discuss their graphic organizer.
Describe the existing situation that
Describe the decision that was
led the character or person to
made as a result of the existing
make a decision.
situation
CAUSE
EFFECT
Reflection Connection
Reflection Connection allows students to connect words that relate to one another and determine
relationships among the words.
1.
Use a word bank from the novel to create 2 sets of words,
2.
Set A for the first five words, and Set B for the second 5.
3.
Have students work in pairs to match each word in Set A with a word in Set B.
4.
Teacher reads aloud the word bank, and has students work together to determine which words
connect, and how they are connected.
5.
TEACHER NOTE – Answers may vary, but possible connections are: character description,
character’s emotions, character’s actions, opposites, cause/effect.
Division of Language Arts/Reading
Model Novel Study Middle School Template
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