Riding Freedom Book Club Focused on Story Elements
Riding Freedom Book Club Focused on Story Elements
This fictionalized story of the real life of Charlotte Parkhurst follows Charlotte from a young orphan to a landowner in the 1800s. Charlotte is unlike many girls of her time; happier in the stable than in the kitchen, has aspirations of working as a stagecoach driver, and a desire to own her own horse farm one day. Her determination, bravery, and toughness are traits that will not only have readers rooting for her, but are a great springboard for a Book Club focused on determining character traits and how they contribute to a story.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 5 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 Riding Freedom by Pam Muñoz Ryan. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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This fictionalized story of the real life of Charlotte Parkhurst follows Charlotte from a young orphan to a landowner in the 1800s. Charlotte is unlike many girls of her time; happier in the stable than in the kitchen, has aspirations of working as a stagecoach driver, and a desire to own her own horse farm one day. Her determination, bravery, and toughness are traits that will not only have readers rooting for her, but are a great springboard for a Book Club focused on determining character traits and how they contribute to a story.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 5 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 Riding Freedom by Pam Muñoz Ryan. 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 character traits, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to host the Riding Freedom Book Club.
As students begin to identify character traits for Charlotte, the main character in Pam Muñoz Ryan's Riding Freedom, it will be helpful to understand the time period in history that this story takes place in. The importance of Charlotte's determination, bravery, and grit becomes more apparent when students understand how unusual it was for girls to display these traits.
This Riding Freedom Book Club meeting explores identifying character traits that are explicitly stated as well as those that are inferred from the text. The use of a thinking map for character traits will help readers organize their thinking.
As readers dive deeper into understanding the characters in Riding Freedom by Pam Muñoz Ryan, they will be able to differentiate major and minor characters and identify the important role that each type of character plays in the story.
The focus of this Book Club meeting is for readers to use the character traits that they have identified for the major and minor characters in Riding Freedom to determine how the different characters impact the story. An interactive activity of "What If..." will bring this concept to life for students.
The final Book Club meeting for Pam Muñoz Ryan's Riding Freedom encourages readers to reflect on how determining character traits helped them as they read and exploring the role character traits have in identifying the theme of the story.
Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with character traits.
More about this resource
Book Title:
Riding Freedom
Book Author:
Pam Muñoz Ryan
Grade Level:
3
Genre(s):
Historical Fiction
F&P Guided Reading Level:
P
DRA Level:
38
Reading Recovery Level:
38
Theme(s):
Friendship, History, Women's History Month, Perseverance
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TEKS
| Common Core Alignment: | RL.3.1, RL.3.2, RL.3.3, RL.3.4, RL.3.5, RL.3.6, RL.3.7, RL.3.9, RL.3.10, RF.3.3, RF.3.4, SL.3.1c, SL.3.1d, SL.3.2, SL.3.3, W.3.8, L.3.4a, L.3.5b, L.3.6 |
| Vocabulary Connections: | L.3.4a, L.3.5b, L.3.6 |
| TEKS Alignment: | 3.1A, 3.1C, 3.1D, 3.1E, 3.6A, 3.6B, 3.6C, 3.6D, 3.6E, 3.6F, 3.6G, 3.6H, 3.6I, 3.7A, 3.7B, 3.7C, 3.7D, 3.7E, 3.7F, 3.7G, 3.8A, 3.8B, 3.8C, 3.8D, 3.9A, 3.9B, 3.9C, 3.9D(i), 3.9D(ii), 3.9D(iii), 3.9E(i), 3.9E(ii), 3.9E(iii), 3.9F, 3.10A, 3.10B, 3.10C, 3.10D, 3.10E, 3.10F, 3.10G, 3.13A, 3.13C, 3.13E, 3.13H |
| Vocabulary Connections: | 3.7E, 3.7F, 3.3A, 3.3B |
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