Description

This unit helps students read, understand, and LOVE L’Engle’s novel, A Wrinkle in Time. It is also designed to help students learn and use reading strategies. Reading strategies are important for all types of readers, but they are especially important for struggling readers or those with reading differences like dyslexia. In this unit, students will learn what reading strategies are, how to dialogue with the text, and how to write reader response journals.

Novel Study includes-

– Overview and teaching of reading strategies with teacher answer key

– Author and novel background slot notes with teacher answer key

– Outline to help teacher pace reading and activities

– Seven Lesson plans (each can be broken into multiple classes)

– Activities for each chapter

– Suggested homework

– Teaching of reader response journals and dialoguing with text

– Discussion Questions

– Graphic organizers

– Final project suggestions