What experiences lead people to change and how do they do it? After reading about Cole's encounter with Touching Spirit Bear, readers complete the second out of a series of five activities to predict future events in the text. The resource comes complete with instructions and a worksheet that includes an excerpt of the text that can be used for analysis. To finish, middle schoolers must select evidence to support their predictions.

Concepts

reading strategies, character analysis, close reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• The activity is applicable to any part of the text; consider having readers complete a jigsaw of the book, each facilitating a discussion about predictions, what they learned, and evidence from the reading to support it
• Lesson lends itself to talking about plagiarism and correct citations; use the information from the worksheet as a model to pupils and have them create their own citations as evidence

Classroom Considerations

• Have copies of the worksheet for class

Pros

• Activity is broken down into pre-, during, and post- reading categories
• Questions are open-ended and allow for critical thinking
• Scaffolded and designed with multiple evidence-based strategies, learners grow into more mature readers as they progress through the resource
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.6.1 RL.7.1 RL.8.1