Reading
Online Resources
Epic Books Class code: mru3798
IXL username: ro(student#)@parkridge password:ro(student#)
Flip Grid: The American Revolution
Reading Response Choice Board Links - Great for Practicing at Home!
- Reading Activities For Any Types of Books
- Write a Letter to your teacher and tell him/her about the novel you read! Make sure you tell him/her the main characters, problem, solution, and if you enjoyed the book!
- Choose a character from the novel you read and create a Character Trading Card .
- Acrostic Poem Create an acrostic poem about your favorite character.
- Create a Wordle online. Type in words that help describe the following:
1.title and author
2. Setting
3. Problem
4. Solution
5. Characters
- Online Book Review of the story you have read.
- Find at least 10 difficult or interesting words you found in your book. Create a Crossword or word find using these words.
Anchor Charts
Unit 1: Interpreting Character
Reading INTENSELY to Grow Ideas
*Find a book you WANT to read.
*Read as if you are IN the book.
*Figure out confusing parts.
*Note important things to talk about later.
*Do the work the book is requesting.
*Make movies in your mind.
*Find the flow of the book.
Grow Ideas About a Character
*Use patterns in the character's actions to form ideas.
*How do the character's new actions fit with or change those ideas?
*Why might the character act like this?
*Pay attention to a character's desires and how they are achieved.
*Notice anything about a character that the author repeats...Why?
*Notice repeated details - traits, features, objects.
*Use precisely the right words, image, comparison.
*Characters are complicated - contexts, relationships, outside/inside.
How to Build an Interpretation
*Read Intensely.
*Read, thinking about many aspects of a book.
*Ask early in story: "What is this story about?"
*Be alert to places in the text that seem extra important.
*Connect different parts of the book and think across the whole book.
*Connect ideas you've had about the book.
Unit 2: Nonfiction
To Read Nonfiction Well...
*Make a connection to your text.
*Preview the whole text and predict how it might go.
*Figure out the text's structure - use it to determine importance
*Tackle the hard parts.
*Notice if the text is hybrid - use your lenses to read.
*Figure out the meaning of unknown words.
To Research Well
Get Ready...
*Get to know your resources
*Sequence texts, easy - hard
*Figure out the main subtopics, categories, and questions
*Plan for team research roles
Unit 3: The American Revolution
Launching a Research Project
*Choose an accessible book to read for an overview
*Gather sources on your topic to preview
*Generate a list of subtopics that appear frequently
*Identify the text structure to help determine what's important.
*Pause at the ends of chunks & recall the text in a structured way.
*Record only the important things.
*Read more texts on the same topic & synthesize your notes.
Links
(Session 1)
Give me liberty, or give me death!” speech video link
"Liberty's Kids Samuel Adams Speech" video
“No More King!” video link
(Session 2)
“Give me liberty, or give me death!” speech video link
"Liberty's Kids Samuel Adams Speech" video
"Launching a Research Project" anchor chart
"The American Revolution Before 1775" chart (Session 1)
(Session 6)
link to "This Day in History" on History.com, "Revere and Dawes warn of British Attack"
"The Famous Ride of Paul Revere" article (Session 1)
(Session 7)
"Tea Troubles: The Boston Tea Party" article (Session 1)
"The Wigmaker's Boy and the Boston massacre" article (Session 1)
Artwork of The American Revolution
(Session 10)
Paul Revere's Boston Massacre Engraving link
Link to Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America
"Tea Trouble: The Boston Tea Party" (Session 1)
(Session 11 - Beginning a Debate)
(Session 14)
"ushistory.org" link
"Launching a Research Project" anchor chart
(Session 18)
"Siege of Yorktown" challenging passage link
American Revolution AFTER 1775 Online Resources
Declaration of Independence for Kids
Women in the American Revolution
Women in the American Revolution #2
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Battle of Lexington and Concord #2
Events of the American Revolution
Unit 3 Post Assessment Video
How I Harnessed the Wind (TED Talk) - Unit 3 Post Assessment for Text 2
Unit 4: Historical Fiction Clubs
Readers of Historical Fiction...
*Read analytically, studying parts that clue them into the facts, feelings, or setting
*Fit the pieces together
*Figure out the main character's timeline, and the historical timeline
*Realize that a character's perspective is shaped by the times and by his/her roles
*Determine themes and support them with evidence from across the story
*Lodge big ideas in small moments, small details, and objects
*Take into account the minor characters
*Turn to nonfiction to deepen understanding
*Notice universal themes and ideas across books