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Big Nate: Thunka, Thunka, Thunka
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts
Students will read Big Nate: Thunka, Thunka, Thunka and create lists of characters and their major traits. Each student will then choose his or her two favorite characters and fill in a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the characters. Finally, each student will write a compare-and-contrast paragraph about the two characters he or she chose.
Trapped in a Video Game: Robots Revolt
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts, Science, Programming
As students experience experience cover-to-cover adventure with Trapped in a Video Game: Robots Revolt, these guided activities will make language arts, science, and computer programming just as fun and accessible as a video game.
Trapped in a Video Game
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts, Science, Programming
As students experience experience cover-to-cover adventure with Trapped in a Video Game, these guided activities will make language arts, science, and computer programming just as fun and accessible as a video game.
The Mutts Winter Diaries
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: Science, English Language Arts
Students will read The Mutts Winter Diaries and discuss how the characters deal with winter weather. Then, students will discuss and research the ways that animals survive during winter, including hibernation, migration, and adaptation. Finally, students will use creative expression to report on what they learned about animals in winter.
Kid Beowulf: The Rise of El Cid
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts
As students read Kid Beowulf: The Rise of El Cid, they will record text evidence of a chosen character’s beliefs and decisions. Students will then analyze and write about how their chosen character’s moral code affects the character’s decisions in the story. Then they will compare and contrast different characters’ beliefs and decisions.
Kid Beowulf: The Song of Roland
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts
Students read Kid Beowulf: The Song of Roland and complete character studies. Each student then creates a timeline of his or her character’s actions and writes about the character’s motivations and choices and how they affect the story. After students share their character studies with the class, each student chooses two more characters and analyzes their interactions and motivations.
Kid Beowulf: The Blood-Bound Oath
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts
Students will read Kid Beowulf: The Blood-Bound Oath; record the characters, settings, and main events in each section; and then discuss how the text sections fit together and how each successive part builds on earlier sections. Students will then analyze several main events in the story, including the characters’ motivations and the consequences that follow.
The G-Man Super Journal
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts
As students read each section of The G-Man Super Journal: Awesome Origins, they will use the “Super Reader Responses!” bookmark page to take notes on characters, vocabulary, key moments in the story, and text connections. Students will then use their notes to write reader response journal entries in which they make personal connections to their reading.
Li’l Rip Haywire Adventures
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts
Students will read Li’l Rip Haywire Adventures and analyze the main character, noting their impressions of him. Each student will then complete a graphic organizer in which he or she names a character trait and provides text evidence to support it. Finally, each student will analyze the main character’s change in attitude over the course of the story and provide text evidence for his or her observations.
The Dreadful Fate of Jonathan York
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts
As students read The Dreadful Fate of Jonathan York, they will record unfamiliar or compelling vocabulary, share and discuss the interesting words they find, and utilize a graphic organizer to analyze their favorite words from the text. Then, students will write short narratives using rich and imaginative vocabulary to describe the comic sections of the book.
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