Suggested Activities For Model Novel Study Plan Page 2
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Vocabulary Knowledge Rating Chart (VKRC)
1.
Give students a copy of the chart. Read the words on the chart and the headings. These
words are significant vocabulary from a chapter.
2.
Students are being asked to rate their knowledge of each word on the chart.
3.
Direct students to complete the rows labeled “before reading”.
4.
Direct students to put the charts aside to be completed after reading.
Concept of Definition Map
1.
This graphic helps students visualize the components of a definition.
2.
The map includes three relationships essential to rich definition;
What is it? (category),
What is it like? (properties),
What are some examples? (illustrations).
Descriptive and Figurative Language
This document summarizes common literary devices and figurative language including:
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
simile
alliteration
metaphor
Language Collection
The Language Collection activity requires the students to return to the text to skim and find words and
phrases that fit the prompt given in each box. Helping students connect words by concept, topic, or
function gives them the opportunity to practice the spectrum of skills included in the vocabulary
enrichment.
1.
Give each student a copy of the Language Collection graphic organizer.
2.
Read all the prompts in the boxes.
3.
Model example given and explain that during reading they should be circling those words
that fit in the given boxes.
3-column notes
This strategy is used to organize information predetermined by the teacher.
1.
Give each student the 3-column notes worksheet to record lines from the novel which
express how each character feels ____; OR
2.
Use the 3-column notes to locate and record examples of
exaggeration-enlarging or overstating the truth.
irony- use of words to convey the opposite of literal meaning.
sensory detail - details about a subject that use the 5 senses (smell, feel, hearing,
seeing and taste).
3.
Students should complete the worksheet using the marginal notes they made in their novels
from their buddy reading.
4.
Share and discuss responses aloud.
Quotable Quotations worksheet
1.
Students should complete the worksheet using the information from their selective
underlining assignment.
Quotation:____________________________
Quotation said by__________page(s)_______
The quotation is important because_________
Janet Allen’s Word in My Context
1.
Display Overhead of graphic organizer “Word in My Context” (created by Janet Allen).
2.
Explain that on this graphic the student works with the dictionary definition as well as has
an opportunity to connect the definitions to feelings that could be associated with the
word from the point of view of several characters or real people, such as themselves,
friends or family.
3.
Show the overhead of the sample graphic completed for the word.
Division of Language Arts/Reading
Model Novel Study Middle School Template
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