Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark Book Club Focused on Retelling and Summarizing
Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark Book Club Focused on Retelling and Summarizing
Upon entering a tree house in the woods close to their home, siblings Jack and Annie discover that it is filled with books and magic! Before they realize what is happening, the pair are whisked off to prehistoric times where dinosaurs roamed freely. Jack and Annie must face their fears and work together to find a way to return to Frog Creek. The story’s simple cast of characters and interesting events makes it perfect for a Book Club focused on retelling and summarizing.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 5 book club meetings focused on Retelling and Summarizing
- 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 Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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Upon entering a tree house in the woods close to their home, siblings Jack and Annie discover that it is filled with books and magic! Before they realize what is happening, the pair are whisked off to prehistoric times where dinosaurs roamed freely. Jack and Annie must face their fears and work together to find a way to return to Frog Creek. The story’s simple cast of characters and interesting events makes it perfect for a Book Club focused on retelling and summarizing.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 5 book club meetings focused on Retelling and Summarizing
- 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 Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne. 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 an instructional background for retelling and summarizing, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to host the Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark Book Club.
As students begin reading longer texts like Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark, it is important for them to be able to remember important characters and events from the story. One way to do this is by retelling and summarizing the text.
Differentiating between major and minor characters will help students to know which characters and events are most important to the story. This Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark Book Club meeting will teach students to attend to major characters and the events they are involved in while reading.
Like major characters, major events are most important when retelling and summarizing Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne. Through an interactive activity, students will gain experience identifying major and minor events from their reading.
Key concepts to successfully retelling and summarizing a story are being able to sequence the major events and tell how the major characters responded to those events. This Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark Book Club meeting encourages students to build these skills in a fun, interactive way.
This final Book Club meeting for Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark enables students to test their learning related to retelling and summarizing by looking at how a character's different response to a major event would effect the outcome of the story.
Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with retelling and summarizing.
More about this resource
Book Title:
Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark
Book Author:
Mary Pope Osborne
Grade Level:
2
Genre(s):
Fantasy
F&P Guided Reading Level:
M
DRA Level:
28
Reading Recovery Level:
20, 28
Theme(s):
Adventure, History
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CCSS
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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