Hoot Book Club Focused on Story Elements
Hoot Book Club Focused on Story Elements
Roy is once again the “new kid in school”. He is having a hard time adjusting, mostly due to being picked on by the school bully. On the way to school, he becomes intrigued by a mysterious boy running away from the bus. This chance sighting begins a series of events that includes making new friends, becoming devoted to a cause, and learning important life lessons. With two intertwining plots and a variety of interesting characters, this Newbery Honor Book is an ideal text for a Book Club focused on story elements.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 7 book club meetings focused on Story Elements
- 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 Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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Roy is once again the “new kid in school”. He is having a hard time adjusting, mostly due to being picked on by the school bully. On the way to school, he becomes intrigued by a mysterious boy running away from the bus. This chance sighting begins a series of events that includes making new friends, becoming devoted to a cause, and learning important life lessons. With two intertwining plots and a variety of interesting characters, this Newbery Honor Book is an ideal text for a Book Club focused on story elements.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 7 book club meetings focused on Story Elements
- 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 Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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Book Club resources
The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.
The instructional overview includes instructional background for story elements, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to host the Hoot Book Club.
In this first Book Club meeting, students will identify the parts of plot using a plot diagram. This meeting also introduces a graphic organizer for students to use while independently reading Hoot to track important story events and how they impact the main character.
Author Carl Hiaasen introduces two main conflicts early in the story. This Book Club meeting will teach students how to identify and analyze those conflicts using a chart to help them keep track of their thinking.
When reviewing the critical events of Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, students will learn the importance of looking at a variety of pieces of information. This Book Club meeting explores how to look at important story events.
This Book Club meeting looks at an event through multiple characters' perspectives to better understand the story. Students will use a pivotal event in Hoot to create a detailed plot diagram from different characters' perspectives.
Author Carl Hiaasen uses characters to move the story along. This Book Club meeting focuses on using a graphic organizer to track how characters change as a result of events in the story.
Looking at how characters respond to the climax event of Hoot by Carl Hiaasen helps students draw conclusions about the story. In this Book Club discussion, students will identify how characters respond the story's climax event.
This final Book Club meeting examines how author Carl Hiaasen brings Hoot to resolution. As a final activity, students are encouraged to creatively represent the five most important story events on a timeline.
Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with story elements.
More about this resource
Book Title:
Hoot
Book Author:
Carl Hiaasen
Grade Level:
6
Genre(s):
Realistic Fiction
F&P Guided Reading Level:
W
DRA Level:
60
Reading Recovery Level:
Theme(s):
Award Winners, Bullying, Family, Friendship, Laugh Out Loud, Self Awareness, Self Management
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TEKS
| Common Core Alignment: | RL.6.1, RL.6.2, RL.6.3, RL.6.4, RL.6.5, RL.6.6, RL.6.7, RL.6.9, RL.6.10, W.6.8, W.6.9, SL.6.1a, SL.6.1b, SL.6.1c, L.6.6, L.6.4a, L.6.5 |
| Vocabulary Connections: | L.6.6, L.6.4a, L.6.5 |
| TEKS Alignment: | 6.3A, 6.3B, 6.3C, 6.4, 6.6A, 6.6B, 6.6C, 6.8, 6.9, 6.26A, 6.27, 6.28 |
| Vocabulary Connections: | 6.2B, 6.2A, 6.2C |
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