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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Charlotte’s Web

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Use Charlotte’s Web by EB White to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

EB White's well-loved classic, Charlotte's Web, is a story that will never go out of style. With themes of friendship, love, loss, and bravery, readers will find it easy to connect with the text. What may not be so easy, is keeping track of it's long and varied cast of characters. That's why this chapter book is the perfect springboard for mini-lessons focused tracking characters, character relationships, and the ways in which characters are developed across longer text.

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Meeting 1

The first Book Club meeting for Charlotte's Web by EB White introduces the students to using a Character Map to keep track of the story's characters.

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Meeting 2

Author EB White uses both primary and secondary characters in Charlotte's Web. Students will practice distinguishing between these two types for the characters that have been introduced in the text.

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Meeting 3

Identifying the physical attributes of the characters in Charlotte's Web allows the reader to form a more complete understanding of the characters. Students will use evidence from the text to add physical traits to their Character Maps for each character.

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Meeting 4

Readers can infer what a character in Charlotte's Web thinks and feels by examining the things the character says and does. Students will add descriptions to their Character Maps by looking for evidence of each character's personality in dialogue and actions.

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Meeting 5

In Charlotte's Web, author EB White has included a lot of characters. This meeting focuses on identifying connections between characters to learn which ones are most important and how the characters effect one another.

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Meeting 6

Students will be able to find characters they like and dislike in Charlotte's Web and identify reasons for their opinion. When readers form an opinion of the characters in the story, it shows that they are comprehending what they are reading.

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Meeting 7

Students have developed detailed Character Maps of the characters author EB White included in Charlotte's Web. By paying careful attention to the details of the text, students know the characters well enough to write a biography of the character.

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Focus Assessment and Rubric

Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with tracking characters.

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Running Record with Charlotte’s Web

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Charlotte's Web. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Comprehension Assessment with Charlotte’s Web

This 9 question Common Core aligned assessment can be used to determine students' overall comprehension of Charlotte's Web and their mastery of the Common Core State Standards.

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About the Book

Title: Charlotte’s Web

Author: EB White

Genre: Fantasy

Themes: Award Winners, Decision Making, Relationship Skills, Life Cycle, Self Awareness, Family, Self Management, Friendship

ISBN: 9780062406781

Publisher's Summary:

Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter.

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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Charlotte’s Web