“Wish” Novel Study and Teaching Guide – Print and Digital Options

Description

Have you used Barbara O’Connor’s amazing book Wish in your classroom? If you want your students to be able to cite text evidence, develop deep comprehension, and study characters with NO PREP for you, I’ve got you covered!

This Wish novel study is the perfect complement to a social issues book study or any time you want students thinking deeply about characters and plot. This novel unit is a little different than others out there… there aren’t a ton of question pages… vocabulary in isolation… quizzes… worksheets… or projects.

Instead, it helps you dig into “Wish” at just the right level for upper elementary students. It includes DIGITAL slides as well so you can send responses to your students online.

It is filled with suggested teaching points and reflection questions (in three formats—full page reproducibles, “clippable” versions to glue into reader’s notebooks, and digital slides)–all meant to help you help your students dig into this amazing book.

This resource is meant to nurture discussion, “close reading”, and proving ideas with evidence from the text. If you are looking for an in-depth resource to use with small groups, a class read aloud, or to support individual students with quality instruction and deep thinking—you’ve come to the right place! My goal is to help teachers nurture a love of reading and talking and writing about books!

What do you get?

• A page of teaching “tips” and suggestions FOR EACH SECTION! After using this book with students many times, I have gathered a collection of “things to notice”, places where students sometimes struggle, and other literary elements that I like to highlight with the text. Such a time-saver for you!

• *Full page reproducible copies of open ended, constructed response comprehension questions focusing on key plot elements, deeper thinking, and proving ideas with examples in the text for EACH set of chapters (2 or 3 chapters per section)—providing students the opportunity to show their understanding and to give them a way to organize their thinking for discussions. “Wish” is a book that can be read on so many levels–and this resource can help you.

• The same questions or “prompts” in a format that makes it easy to cut and glue into notebooks.

• The same prompts with DIGITAL access so send to your students using technology.

• A sample response checklist to help you assess and to help students recognize the level of expectations required of their work

• A list of the grade 4 and grade 5 standards connections to see how this book can help meet the requirements of the CCSS or other rigorous standards

• A set of “bonus” response pages that can be used with this resource to cover certain areas in more depth, to use as assessments or as enrichment, or to extend the learning further

• A set of graphic organizers to provide even more ways to help students show their deeper thinking about the text

I hope you enjoy this “Wish” resource–and other novel units in my store.

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