When You Reach Me Book Club Focused on Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions
When You Reach Me Book Club Focused on Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions
Miranda is unsure what to think when she starts to receive mysterious notes from an unknown source. These notes warn her that a friend is in trouble and, seem legitimate, because they correctly predict future events. The note writer also tells her not to share the messages with others; leaving Miranda to solve this mystery on her own. Author Rebecca Stead expertly weaves the clues to solving this mystery throughout the story elements, making this a perfect chapter book for a Book Club focused on making inferences. Expect to share many “ah ha!” moments with students as they navigate this well-crafted mystery.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 6 book club meetings focused on Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions
- 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 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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Miranda is unsure what to think when she starts to receive mysterious notes from an unknown source. These notes warn her that a friend is in trouble and, seem legitimate, because they correctly predict future events. The note writer also tells her not to share the messages with others; leaving Miranda to solve this mystery on her own. Author Rebecca Stead expertly weaves the clues to solving this mystery throughout the story elements, making this a perfect chapter book for a Book Club focused on making inferences. Expect to share many “ah ha!” moments with students as they navigate this well-crafted mystery.
- Included in this resource
- Lesson plans for 6 book club meetings focused on Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions
- 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 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. 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 making inferences, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to host the When You Reach Me Book Club.
Mysteries, like When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, are perfect for readers developing their ability to make inferences to deepen their comprehension. Prime students to make inferences to solve a mystery with a ready-to-use mini mystery game.
Throughout the When You Reach Me Book Club, readers will be making inferences to learn more about the characters of the story and to try to solve the mystery before the author reveals the answer. This meeting will provide the opportunity for students to look for details in the text that support predetermined inferences.
Building on the last meeting, students will now formulate their own inferences based on the details author Rebecca Stead included in When You Reach Me. Group discussion focuses on inferring information about the various characters that have been presented so far and a graphic organizer is used to help students track their thinking while reading independently.
Readers will begin to notice recurring themes in the inferences they are making. This When You Reach Me Book Club meeting focuses discussion on drawing conclusions when students make similar inferences over and over, and knowing when to dismiss an inference they made because there is not enough text evidence to support it.
Making inferences and making predictions can be tricky concepts to differentiate. As students approach the end of Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me, they will see how the inferences they made throughout the Book Club can inform their predictions of the solution of the mystery.
This final When You Reach Me Book Club meeting is full of "ah ha!" moments for readers. Now that the mystery has been solved, students can go back through the details in the story and see how they could have inferred the ending. The culminating activity encourages creativity as well as the demonstration of the skills related to making inferences that the students gained throughout their participation in the Book Club.
Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with making inferences.
More about this resource
Book Title:
When You Reach Me
Book Author:
Rebecca Stead
Grade Level:
5
Genre(s):
Mystery
F&P Guided Reading Level:
V
DRA Level:
50
Reading Recovery Level:
Theme(s):
Award Winners, Bullying, Friendship
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CCSS
TEKS
| Common Core Alignment: | RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.5, RL.5.6, RL.5.7, RL.5.9, RL.5.10, RF.5.3, RF.5.4, SL.5.1a, SL.5.1b, SL.5.1c, W.5.8, W.5.9, L.5.4a, L.5.5, L.5.6 |
| Vocabulary Connections: | L.5.4a, L.5.5, L.5.6 |
| TEKS Alignment: | 5.1C, 5.1A, 5.1D, 5.6A, 5.6B, 5.6C, 5.6D, 5.6E, 5.6F, 5.6G, 5.6H, 5.6I, 5.7A, 5.7B, 5.7C, 5.7D, 5.7E, 5.7F, 5.7G, 5.8A, 5.8B, 5.8C, 5.8D, 5.9A, 5.9B, 5.9D(i), 5.9D(ii), 5.9D(iii), 5.9E(i), 5.9E(ii), 5.9E(iii), 5.9F, 5.10A, 5.10B, 5.10C, 5.10D, 5.10E, 5.10F, 5.10G, 5.13A, 5.13C, 5.13E, 5.13H |
| Vocabulary Connections: | 5.7E, 5.7F, 5.3A, 5.3B |
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