Charlotte's Spider Web Activities
{Click to Access in addition to Download: Charlotte's Web Character Trait Activity Pages}
Understanding a character’s words in addition to actions volition attention to back upwardly a student’s overall comprehension of a text. Being able to visualize in addition to summarize grapheme traits are prerequisites to higher levels of comprehension, such equally synthesizing information, making inferences, in addition to forming opinions. This packet volition attention to strengthen those skills equally good equally strengthen the students’ mightiness to reference a text to back upwardly their thinking.
In my classroom I made a booklet for each educatee yesteryear copying the cover, grapheme trait listing in addition to private grapheme pages dorsum to dorsum in addition to stapling them together on the left-hand side. I projected the grapheme page from this PDF onto my smartboard in addition to nosotros discussed how to purpose the list, I dearest knowing that my students’ vocabulary is expanding equally nosotros consummate these activities. We also discuseed synonms, how proficient writer’s actually mean value well-nigh their give-and-take choices, in addition to how these words would live dandy options to include inwards their ain writing.
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{Click to Access in addition to Download: Charlotte's Web Character Trait Activity Pages} |
During read aloud I modeled how to position grapheme traits based on what a grapheme says or does in addition to periodically recorded a trait, the page release in addition to the testify from the text onto our course of report chart. This served equally a reminder on how to consummate the organizer.
I oft paused during reading in addition to had the students hash out what a grapheme was doing or maxim in addition to how that could live summarized yesteryear a trait. This provided students alongside additional ideas in addition to back upwardly inwards completing their ain booklets.
I purpose the template that includes page release when citing evidence because I bring a course of report fix of books in addition to each student has a re-create of their ain to reread in addition to reference. I bring also included an optional version that does non require the students to tape a page number. This version is perfect if you are completing the reading equally a read aloud.
{Click to Access in addition to Download: Charlotte's Web Character Trait Activity Pages}
This bundle includes two versions of an 8 page grapheme trait activity booklet focused on the characters inwards E.B. White's pop new Chartlotte's Web. It also includes a bonus three page writing activity that has students position their ain grapheme traits.
If you lot are reading Charlotte's Web...and I actually promise you lot are because it is such a beautiful book...you may also live interested inwards the Diary of a Pig book I made equally good equally the Spider Non-Fiction Packet.
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Once upon a fourth dimension on my previous weblog I wrote the post below. I've received many emails requesting I brand the file available inwards my store. While it was my intent to produce so long ago, I FINALLY got some to doing so. I love, love, dearest this project. Last yr my kids wrote, "Diary of a Crayfish" inwards science. This fix includes covers, well-nigh the author pages, in addition to writing/illustrating pages for your students to purpose equally a reader reply activity alongside Charlotte's Web. I'm happy to produce custom listings if you lot bring a specific "diary" inwards mind. Just shoot me an email: littlestlearners @ gmail dot com.
Have you lot read the Diary of a _____ books yesteryear Doreen Cronin? So much fun.
There are diaries for a worm, a fly and a spider. Each is to a greater extent than awesome than the last. T
hey are written inwards the shape of a diary, are witty in addition to bring fun illustrations in addition to quick one-liners.
I dearest them. Kids e'er dearest them.
One of them mentions that a worms caput looks merely similar it's butt. What kid isn't going to dearest that?
A few years back, I happened to live reading Charlotte's Web to the course of report equally my chapter mass read aloud in addition to broke these fun titles out during our writing block equally a model of arrangement in addition to vocalisation from 6 traits.
Ever bring 1 of those light bulb moments? You know, the sort where you lot combat your plans in addition to become alongside something agency better that "just came to you?"
That's when "The Diary of a Pig" was born. We used Cronin's books equally a model/inspiration in addition to composed our ain version based on the events inwards Charlotte's Web.
We discussed 1st mortal vs tertiary person.
We talked well-nigh style. We chatted well-nigh the of import parts that would live of import to include. Not solely is it fun in addition to creative, but it is a fabulous agency to banking concern lucifer a child's aeroplane of comprehension on a text.
After reading a chapter (or chapters inwards some cases), I asked the course of report to compose a diary entry.
While the mass doesn't specify dates, nosotros used context clues to shape a timeline in addition to so "date" our entries (Wilbur beingness a jump pig, Fern beingness inwards school, the crickets signaling summer, etc).
They were asked to include some words that they considered to live "key vocabulary."
The comprehend was designed to await similar Cronin's. We observed how each of her covers had a white background in addition to each had a pencil equally business office of the illustration. They needed to produce the same.
After all of the books were completed, nosotros made them available inwards the course of report library for a bit. They took a lot of pride inwards this activity.
You could easily produce this alongside other books equally well.
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