Description

The Best School Year Ever is an engaging and fun way to start or end the school year! Students are able to work independently or in small groups to answer thought-provoking questions about the story. Each reading response is standards-aligned and designed to help students think deeply about the novel.  Students are required to look back in the story to support their thinking with evidence.

Online Learning:  This novel study now includes Google Slides for online learning, compatible with Google Classroom. The link to the slides is found on the second page of the resource.

Included in the download:

• Strategy pages for making connections, predicting, and asking questions
• Common Core alignment page
• Interactive notebook pages for analyzing characters, chapter summaries, and author’s message
• Google Slides for online learning
• Complete answer key

Students will:

• make predictions
• make connections
• ask questions
• write chapter titles
• read for the theme
• read for the main idea
• answer text-dependent questions
• note details
• draw visualizations
• draw a picture summary
• use story clues to draw conclusions
• support drawn conclusions with story details
• determine character traits
• complete character trait map
• infer
• write chapter summaries
• determine the moral of the story
• think critically about the story
• find evidence in the text to support thinking

Happy reading!