Sarah, Plain and Tall Book Club Focused on Story Elements
Sarah, Plain and Tall Book Club Focused on Story Elements
This classic story of Sarah, Plain and Tall is the perfect choice for students who are beginning to read chapter books. The story of family, friendship, loss, and love is one that will hold students’ interest, making it easy to track characters across a longer text.
- 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 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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This classic story of Sarah, Plain and Tall is the perfect choice for students who are beginning to read chapter books. The story of family, friendship, loss, and love is one that will hold students’ interest, making it easy to track characters across a longer text.
- 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 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. 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 tracking characters, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to Sarah, Plain and Tall Book Club.
Being able to keep track of characters is essential for deep comprehension of the text. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan provides a strong backdrop for practice exploring characters across longer texts.
One of the ways that readers learn more about characters is to make inferences using clues from the text. This Sarah, Plain and Tall Book Club focuses on using the text to make logical inferences.
Author Patricia MacLachlan includes both primary and secondary characters in Sarah, Plain and Tall. Through discussion, readers will learn how to differentiate primary and secondary characters.
Sometimes characters that impact the storyline are not introduced right away. This Sarah, Plain and Tall Book Club explores the reasons why some characters might be introduced later in the text.
This final Sarah, Plain and Tall Book Club meeting focuses on exploring the importance of tracking characters across a longer text. Students will be challenged to provide a description of a character when he/she is named.
Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with character tracking.
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Book Title:
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Book Author:
Patricia MacLachlan
Grade Level:
4
Genre(s):
Historical Fiction
F&P Guided Reading Level:
R
DRA Level:
40
Reading Recovery Level:
40
Theme(s):
Adventure, Award Winners, Family, Friendship, History
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CCSS
TEKS
| Common Core Alignment: | RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.4.5, RL.4.6, RL.4.7, RL.4.9, RL.4.10, SL.4.1a, SL.4.1b, SL.4.1c, W.4.8, L.4.4a, L.4.5c, L.4.6, W.4.9 |
| Vocabulary Connections: | L.4.4a, L.4.5c, L.4.6 |
| TEKS Alignment: | 4.1A, 4.1C, 4.1D, 4.6A, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.6D, 4.6E, 4.6F, 4.6G, 4.6H, 4.6I, 4.7A, 4.7B, 4.7C, 4.7D, 4.7E, 4.7F, 4.7G, 4.8A, 4.8B, 4.8C, 4.8D, 4.9A, 4.9B, 4.9D(i), 4.9D(ii), 4.9D(iii), 4.9E(i), 4.9E(ii), 4.9E(iii), 4.9F, 4.10A, 4.10B, 4.10C, 4.10D, 4.10E, 4.10F, 4.10G, 4.13A, 4.13C, 4.13E, 4.13H |
| Vocabulary Connections: | 4.7E, 4.7F, 4.3A, 4.3B |
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