The Chocolate Touch Book Club Focused on Theme
The Chocolate Touch Book Club Focused on Theme
Students will be entertained by this classic story about a boy who learns to be careful what you wish for. John Midas loves chocolate above all other food. He eats it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On a mission to eat more chocolate, John buys chocolate from a candy store. Soon everything John touches with his mouth turns into chocolate including his mother! The lesson John learns in The Chocolate Touch lays the perfect foundation for readers learning to determine theme.
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- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 7 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 The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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Students will be entertained by this classic story about a boy who learns to be careful what you wish for. John Midas loves chocolate above all other food. He eats it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On a mission to eat more chocolate, John buys chocolate from a candy store. Soon everything John touches with his mouth turns into chocolate including his mother! The lesson John learns in The Chocolate Touch lays the perfect foundation for readers learning to determine theme.
Read the book of The Chocolate Touch on Epic here.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 7 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 The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling. 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 determining theme, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to The Chocolate Touch Book Club.
Using The Chocolate Touch by author Patrick Skene Catling, students will learn to track the theme by identifying clues and evidence as they read. This meeting introduces a graphic organizer for students to use to track clues about the book's theme as they read.
Noting character traits, especially flaws, is another way for readers to determine a story's theme. Students can use The Chocolate Touch to practice identifying a character's traits and related theme.
This The Chocolate Touch Book Club meeting focuses on examining the main character's feelings to help determine theme. Students will use the text as evidence to identify how John is feeling and what that emotion may say about the theme.
Author Patrick Skene Catling connects the story's theme to the main character's problem. Students will practice examining the character's problem and lessons learned to identify the story's overall theme.
Building on the last meeting, students will identify a change in the character's perspective based on the lesson learned. In The Chocolate Touch, the change in John's perspective on chocolate helps readers to determine theme.
As The Chocolate Touch begins to conclude, students will use their notes on the smaller themes they have identified throughout the text to make a logical prediction about the story's overall theme.
Author Patrick Skene Catling provides clues throughout The Chocolate Touch to help readers determine the book's theme. Students will wrap up the Book Club by identifying the theme and assessing their predictions to determine if they were correct.
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:
The Chocolate Touch
Book Author:
Patrick Skene Catling
Grade Level:
3
Genre(s):
Fantasy
F&P Guided Reading Level:
N
DRA Level:
30
Reading Recovery Level:
30
Theme(s):
Valentine’s Day, Laugh Out Loud
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CCSS
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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