Ivy and Bean Book Club Focused on Theme
Ivy and Bean Book Club Focused on Theme
At first glance, Ivy and Bean couldn’t have been more different. Ivy wore dresses and sparkly headbands. Bean’s headbands always fell off, and she only wore dresses when her mother made her. Bean liked to play with lots of kids, but Ivy played alone. Ivy read books but reading made Bean jumpy. Can two very different girls be friends?
Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows is an ideal text to introduce the concept of theme to young readers. Through exploring story elements like setting and plot in this beginning chapter book, readers will develop an understanding of how theme is developed across longer texts.
Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows is an ideal text to introduce the concept of theme to young readers. Through exploring story elements like setting and plot in this beginning chapter book, readers will develop an understanding of how theme is developed across longer texts.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 5 book club meetings focused on Theme
- 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 Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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At first glance, Ivy and Bean couldn’t have been more different. Ivy wore dresses and sparkly headbands. Bean’s headbands always fell off, and she only wore dresses when her mother made her. Bean liked to play with lots of kids, but Ivy played alone. Ivy read books but reading made Bean jumpy. Can two very different girls be friends?
Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows is an ideal text to introduce the concept of theme to young readers. Through exploring story elements like setting and plot in this beginning chapter book, readers will develop an understanding of how theme is developed across longer texts.
Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows is an ideal text to introduce the concept of theme to young readers. Through exploring story elements like setting and plot in this beginning chapter book, readers will develop an understanding of how theme is developed across longer texts.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 5 book club meetings focused on Theme
- 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 Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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The management resources include a 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 determining theme, along with a list of instructional objectives for each of the book club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to Ivy and Bean.
Ivy and Bean is an ideal text to introduce the concept of theme to younger readers. By focusing on the idea of friendship, readers will learn which story elements are useful when thinking about the theme of a text.
Annie Barrows does a nice job of developing the characters based on the overarching theme of friendship in the book. This book club meeting will focus on the ways the characters and the setting can develop theme in a text.
The events in Ivy and Bean are relatable for most children. As a result, this discussion will focus on the ways readers can track the theme of the text across the events in the book.
Part of understanding the theme is connecting the big ideas to real life. In this book club meeting, readers will focus on the connections they can make between the big ideas around friendship and the experiences they've had in their own lives.
Being able to notice same theme across a set of texts provides readers with a stronger understanding of how themes are developed. In this book club meeting, readers will use what they learned about the theme of friendship in Ivy and Bean to track theme in shorter texts. Students will also have the opportunity to use what they learned about friendship to write a "How - To" about friendship.
Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with determining theme.
More about this resource
Book Title:
Ivy and Bean
Book Author:
Annie Barrows
Grade Level:
2
Genre(s):
Realistic Fiction
F&P Guided Reading Level:
M
DRA Level:
28
Reading Recovery Level:
20, 28
Theme(s):
Friendship, Laugh Out Loud, Relationship Skills
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TEKS
| Common Core Alignment: | RL.2.1, RL.2.2, RL.2.3, RL.2.5, RL.2.6, RL.2.7, RL.2.10, RF.2.3, RF.2.4, SL.2.1a, SL.2.1b, SL.2.1c, SL.2.2, SL.2.3, W.2.8, L.2.4a, L.2.5a, L.2.6, SL.2.6 |
| Vocabulary Connections: | L.2.4a, L.2.5a, L.2.6 |
| TEKS Alignment: | 2.1A, 2.1C, 2.1D, 2.6A, 2.6B, 2.6C, 2.6D, 2.6E, 2.6F, 2.6G, 2.6H, 2.6I, 2.7A, 2.7B, 2.7C, 2.7D, 2.7E, 2.7F, 2.8A, 2.8B, 2.8C, 2.8D, 2.9A, 2.9B, 2.9C, 2.10A, 2.10B, 2.10C, 2.10D, 2.10E, 2.13A, 2.13C, 2.13E, 2.13G |
| Vocabulary Connections: | 2.7E, 2.7F, 2.3A, 2.3B, 2.3D |
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