Passage finder Literature circles

Activity - 1 1

Name:

Due date:

Book title:

Pages: to
Your role:
• Search for a passage that you believe was important and memorable in the selected reading.

• Record the page number and reason why you picked this passage.

• Discuss and record group member's reactions to the passage.

Page number(s):

Why I chose this passage:

Group member's reaction to this passage:

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Summarizer Activity - 2 2

Name:

Due date:

Book title:

Pages: to
Your role:
• Write a short summary of the part of the story your group read, including main characters
and events.

• Write a question you wondered about after reading this part of the story.

Summary:

Question:
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Story connector Activity - 3 3

Name:

Due date:

Book title:

Pages: to
Your role:
• Find parts in the story that remind you of a part in another book (text-to-text), your life
(text-to-self), and/or the world (text-to-world).

• Ask if anyone can make any more connections between this story and another one, an event in
their life or the world.

Event from the story:

This event reminded me of:

Another event from the story:

This event reminded me of:

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Discussion Director Activity - 4 4

Name:
Due date:
Book title:
Pages: to
Your role:
• Write questions that the group may want to discuss about an event from the story.

1. What might happen next in the story?

2. What do you think the author wants the reader to think and feel about this event?

3. Do you agree with the decisions of the main character in the story? Why or why not?

4. Pick an event from the story. How do you think the story would have changed if that
event had never happened.
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Question Starters:

How... What would happen if... What... What If... Why...

Where... Opinion... Who... Details... When...

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Artful Artist Activity - 5 5

Name:

Due date:

Book title:

Pages: to

Your role:
• Draw a part of the story that you found interesting.

• Let your group members guess what you draw before you explain it.

Suggestions of what you can draw about:

• Character
• Setting
• What will happen next
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Vocabulary finder Activity - 6 6

Name:

Due date:

Book title:

Pages: to

Your role:
• Search for words in the part of the story your group read and that you or one of your
group members may not know.

• Record the page number and sentence where you found the word in the story.

• Find the definition of the word.

• When meeting, ask. other group members to try to figure out what the definition of the
word is based on how it is used in a sentence.

• Reveal the definition of the word.

Word #1:

Page number(s) you found the word on:

Sentence in book. containing the word:

Definition:

Word #2:

Page number(s) you found the word on:

Sentence in book. containing the word:

Definition:

Word #3:

Page number(s) you found the word on:

Sentence in book. containing the word:

Definition:

Word #4:

Page number(s) you found the word on:

Sentence in book containing the word:

Definition:

Word #5:

Page number(s) you found the word on:

Sentence in book. containing the word:

Definition: