Mercy Watson to the Rescue Book Club Focused on Perspective
Mercy Watson to the Rescue Book Club Focused on Perspective
Mercy Watson to the Rescue is a fun and silly tale about a pig who unwittingly saves the day. The diverse cast of characters in this humorous story provides an ideal backdrop for readers learning about point of view. Author Kate DiCamillo writes in such a way that readers can easily engage with the text and use this Book Club resource to practice portraying different characters while reading aloud, distinguishing different characters’ points of view, and identifying which character’s point of view is most like their own.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 4 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 Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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Mercy Watson to the Rescue is a fun and silly tale about a pig who unwittingly saves the day. The diverse cast of characters in this humorous story provides an ideal backdrop for readers learning about point of view. Author Kate DiCamillo writes in such a way that readers can easily engage with the text and use this Book Club resource to practice portraying different characters while reading aloud, distinguishing different characters’ points of view, and identifying which character’s point of view is most like their own.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 4 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 Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo. 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 point of view, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to the Mercy Watson to the Rescue Book Club.
Kick off the Mercy Watson to the Rescue Book Club with an interactive activity to focus students on point of view. Explore how people can be shown the same object, but come away with very different impressions of what they saw. Then, apply this concept to the characters in Kate DiCamillo's story.
Your readers may already be familiar with the concept of "putting themselves in someone else's shoes", but what does that mean when applied to the characters in a story? Using Kate DiCamillo's Mercy Watson to the Rescue, students will practice reading aloud from various character's "shoes" to help them better understand the character's actions, words, and/or feelings during events in the story.
Now that readers have gotten to know the characters in Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo, they can easily demonstrate their ability to distinguish varying points of view by anticipating how the characters would respond to some "silly" situations.
This final Mercy Watson to the Rescue Book Club meeting provides time for students to reflect on which character's point of view is most like their own. Once identified, students will then complete a culminating activity that highlights their learning related to point of view as a result of their participation in this Book Club.
Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with the point of view.
More about this resource
Book Title:
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
Book Author:
Kate DiCamillo
Grade Level:
2
Genre(s):
Realistic Fiction
F&P Guided Reading Level:
K
DRA Level:
20
Reading Recovery Level:
18
Theme(s):
Laugh Out Loud
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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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