Description

This Louis Sachar novel study is the ideal way to keep your students engaged and focused as they complete standards-aligned reading responses for There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom. About every 15 pages, students stop to think critically about the story, answer questions, analyze characters, and draw conclusions.  Students need access to the text and 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
• Determining Main Idea strategy page for titling each chapter after reading
• Common Core alignment page
• Interactive notebook pages for vocabulary, characters, chapter summaries, and author’s message
• Google Slides for online learning
• Complete answer key

Students will:

• make connections
• make predictions
• ask questions
• read for the main idea
• answer text-based questions
• write chapter summaries
• find supporting details
• determine character traits
• note details
• draw visualizations
• make inferences
• order events into the correct sequence
• respond critically to the story
• journal write as the main character

Grade level Equivalent: 5.5 Lexile Measure®: 490L DRA: 40 Guided Reading: Q