The Wild Robot Book Club Focused on Theme
The Wild Robot Book Club Focused on Theme
Imagine awakening and nothing looks familiar to you; not your surroundings nor the animal inhabitants of the remote island you find yourself on. This is exactly what happens to Roz, a robot who washes ashore when the cargo ship carrying her sinks at sea. The suspenseful story of Roz’s survival will engage students from the first pages, making it an ideal choice for a Book Club focused on determining theme. Through both text and illustrations, author Peter Brown shares meaningful messages of family relationships, the importance of helping each other, and caring for the earth.
- 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 Wild Robot by Peter Brown. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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Imagine awakening and nothing looks familiar to you; not your surroundings nor the animal inhabitants of the remote island you find yourself on. This is exactly what happens to Roz, a robot who washes ashore when the cargo ship carrying her sinks at sea. The suspenseful story of Roz’s survival will engage students from the first pages, making it an ideal choice for a Book Club focused on determining theme. Through both text and illustrations, author Peter Brown shares meaningful messages of family relationships, the importance of helping each other, and caring for the earth.
- 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 Wild Robot by Peter Brown. 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 The Wild Robot Book Club.
This first The Wild Robot Book Club meeting sets the expectations for student participation and introduces the concept of theme. Beginning with determining the themes of stories that your students are familiar with, will help readers grasp this sometimes difficult concept.
An important skill in determining the theme of a novel such as The Wild Robot by Peter Brown, is being able to summarize the text. The hands-on activity presented in this meeting will have students identifying summaries that are brief, correct, and objective. Students will then work with a graphic organizer to support their own summary writing as they read independently.
When readers are trying to determine the theme of the text, they need to be able to notice the clues the author includes related to the characters, setting, and story events. This The Wild Robot Book Club meeting encourages readers to notice how author Peter Brown uses these elements to support an identified theme of the book.
Now that students have an understanding of how authors weave theme throughout their writing, they can dig deeper into each of the elements presented in Peter Brown's The Wild Robot. This Book Club meeting focuses on identifying how the characters' thoughts, dialogue and actions can be used to determine the theme of a text.
Readers will begin to uncover how the setting supports the determination of theme in The Wild Robot by Peter Brown during this meeting. Discussion focuses on identifying specific aspects of the setting and how those details tie directly to the pre-determined theme.
Author Peter Brown uses the story events to help support the identification of the important themes he incorporated throughout The Wild Robot. This meeting provides guidance for students to be able to analyze the events of the story (i.e. what happens, when, and why) to determine the bigger idea that the author is trying to share.
This final The Wild Robot Book Club meeting gives students the opportunity to share their learning related to determining theme in a creative way. The final discussion and culminating activity encourage students to determine a theme on their own and support it with details from the text.
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 Wild Robot
Book Author:
Peter Brown
Grade Level:
4
Genre(s):
Fantasy
F&P Guided Reading Level:
R
DRA Level:
40
Reading Recovery Level:
40
Theme(s):
Friendship, Perseverance
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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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