A Long Way from Chicago Book Club Focused on Perspective
A Long Way from Chicago Book Club Focused on Perspective
Use A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and teach them about the ways an author can use perspective to tell stories.
A Long Way from Chicago is a series of short stories about the summers two children spend with their grandmother in rural Illinois. Full of hilarious and sometimes shocking stories, this award-winning novel is an ideal anchor text for Book Club discussions focused on character perspective and the ways in which the characters' perspectives grow and change with each passing summer.
By following the minilessons included in this book club resource set, you'll provide students with the opportunity to track changes in perspective over time, determine pivotal moments that change perspective, and make inferences to identify a character's perspective.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 9 book club meetings focused on Perspective
- Chapter by chapter discussion questions and key vocabulary
- Book Club calendar
- Conversation prompts
- Student self-evaluations forms
- Reading response board
- Culminating activity
- Instructional focus assessment, answer key, and rubric
- Note: This set of instructional resources is for use with the book A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
Use A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and teach them about the ways an author can use perspective to tell stories.
A Long Way from Chicago is a series of short stories about the summers two children spend with their grandmother in rural Illinois. Full of hilarious and sometimes shocking stories, this award-winning novel is an ideal anchor text for Book Club discussions focused on character perspective and the ways in which the characters' perspectives grow and change with each passing summer.
By following the minilessons included in this book club resource set, you'll provide students with the opportunity to track changes in perspective over time, determine pivotal moments that change perspective, and make inferences to identify a character's perspective.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 9 book club meetings focused on Perspective
- Chapter by chapter discussion questions and key vocabulary
- Book Club calendar
- Conversation prompts
- Student self-evaluations forms
- Reading response board
- Culminating activity
- Instructional focus assessment, answer key, and rubric
- This set of instructional resources is for use with the book A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
- BookPagez Makes Teaching with Children’s Books Easy!
- Teach key reading skills and strategies with the best books for kindergarten - fifth grade
- Resources for 250+ books easily found in most school, classroom, and public libraries
- Powerful filters make it easy to find the right resources for all your instructional goals
- Flexible lesson plans and resources make teaching whole group and small group easier than ever
- Get even more as a BookPagez member
When readers use their prior knowledge and information from the text, they are able to make inferences that deepen their understanding of what is happening in the story. In the sixth Book Club meeting for A Long Way from Chicago, students will examine the ways in which the characters make inferences and how those inferences affect their perspective.
As students progress through Richard Peck's novel, they are exposed to a variety of changing perspectives. This Book Club meeting will invite students to consider how Mary Alice and Joey's perspective of their grandmother has changed as they've gotten older. The included graphic organizer will readers track their observations as they continue to read A Long Way from Chicago.
| Common Core Alignment: | RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6, RL.5.7, RL.5.9, RL.5.10, RF.5.3, RF.5.4, SL.5.1a, SL.5.1b, SL.5.1c, W.5.8, W.5.9, L.5.4a, L.5.5, L.5.6 |
| Vocabulary Connections: | L.5.4a, L.5.5, L.5.6 |
| TEKS Alignment: | 5.1C, 5.1A, 5.1D, 5.6A, 5.6B, 5.6C, 5.6D, 5.6E, 5.6F, 5.6G, 5.6H, 5.6I, 5.7A, 5.7B, 5.7C, 5.7D, 5.7E, 5.7F, 5.7G, 5.8A, 5.8B, 5.8C, 5.8D, 5.9A, 5.9B, 5.9D(i), 5.9D(ii), 5.9D(iii), 5.9E(i), 5.9E(ii), 5.9E(iii), 5.9F, 5.10A, 5.10B, 5.10C, 5.10D, 5.10E, 5.10F, 5.10G, 5.13A, 5.13C, 5.13E, 5.13H |
| Vocabulary Connections: | 5.7E, 5.7F, 5.3A, 5.3B |
more to explore
Related Resources for A Long Way from Chicago
related products
More Resources to Explore
