Description
Get your wonderful learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL Wonder Novel Study Unit Plan by R.J. Palacio has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 7-week Wonder novel study — prereading questions, characters, vocabulary, projects, and more. You’ll love the “print-and-go” activities in slideshow and .pdf, AND the same fun activities converted and optimized for digital learning (517+ pages, slides, & forms for all your print and digital teaching needs).
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don’t forget the easy-grade Google Forms!
Get your learners enjoying the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson plan journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This literature guide includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of fun activities. Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns the lesson plan to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.
To make your digital experience smooth, we include instructions (w/ screenshots!) of how to download and organize your activities in Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. We’ve added easy-grade Google Forms versions of each activity that auto-corrects their responses using a suggested answer key (which you can adjust afterward or modify your answer key) and compiles grades into a spreadsheet with learners’ names and class periods to make things easier for you to grade all in one place (some types of questions aren’t able to auto-grade, though, because of the short-answer format).
TEXT: WONDER by R.J. Palacio
LEVEL: 5th – 7th
TOTAL: 517+ slides/pages/forms in lesson plan unit
→ Based off the 2012 Knopf Edition [ISBN: 978-0375869020].
→ Our activities easily integrate w/ Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.
→ Pacing Guide and Suggested Answer Keys included
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WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS NOVEL STUDY RESOURCE
♥ This is by far the best unit I have purchased. My kids LOVED this book study and the activities were so helpful.
♥ This unit plan for Wonder is amazing! It’s very well done, and I especially like the Vocabulary quizzes and Quickwrites. I use the Quickwrites as Bellwork to get students thinking about what we read the day before or to preview what we’re going to read today. They spark great discussions!
♥ Many great activities. Well done, nice graphics. The Pre-reading biases were amazing, and we had wonderful class discussions and debates using them as prompts. The students in my grade 6 class beg for more everyday🙂 The Quickwrites are also great to get them writing, thinking, responding and relating. A very good book study. Thank you for sharing.
♥ This is AMAZING!!! I love all the components and am so appreciative that there are lessons and a pacing guide. It gets very repetitive when novel studies are just a lot of worksheets, this is a COMPLETE unit and it’s awesome. Thank you!
♥ This unit is fantastic! I love how modern and creative it is. My class will love this!
♥ This is going to be such a time saver for me. All of the activities are creative and I love that there is such a variety. Thank you!
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WONDER – NOVEL STUDY CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit book study
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards (CCSS novel unit). Easy TEKS conversion.
→ Easy to differentiate the lesson plan for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ BEFORE READING
★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity
– answer thematic questions to get learners thinking about the novel and sharing their point of view
– 24 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1
★ Mr. Browne’s Precepts – 10 Posters
– 10 cool-looking 10 8.5×11″ posters of Mr. Browne’s precepts – 20 pages/slides pages & slidesracy.RL.1
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ DURING READING
★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc Activity
– analyze the 6 parts of the plot
– 10 pages & slides
– suggested answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict Activity
– analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 7 pages & slides
– suggested answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Characterization Analyzer Activity
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 19 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3
★ Settings Analyzer Activity
– analyze the main settings using novel quotes
– 4 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Figurative Language Instructional Slideshow
– We set out to make the most helpful, most compelling, most graphically attractive teaching resource for you to introduce your learners to all the various figurative language. This 70+ slide slideshow & 70+ Google slide slideshow will help you introduce how every many you need to teach your level of learners.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
★ Figurative Language Activity
– analyze and complete 34 figures of speech specific to the novel
– 15 pages, slides, & forms – Similes vs. Metaphors
– Figurative Language Analysis
– Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Analogies, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Puns, Allusion
– suggested answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ Journal Questions – Quickwrite Writing Prompts
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking beyond lower-level comprehension questions
– 98 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
★ 11 Comprehension Question Pop Quizzes
– a 5 comprehension question pop quiz per 1 chapter
– 121 pages, slides, & forms
– suggested answer keys included
– The purpose of these is so learners who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and learners who didn’t read recently would not show comprehension.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2,10
★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment
– 75 vocabulary words from the novel
– five 15-question lists & quizzes
– 30 pages, slides, & forms
– suggested answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ Auggie’s Favorite Song Analysis Activity – “Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side)”
– This is the song that Auggie and his dad sing together all the time. It’s Auggie’s all-time favorite song.
– 5 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
★ “When September Ends” by Green Day – Song Analysis Activity
– This is the song that introduces Auggie’s chapter of the novel — Green Day’s “Wake Me Up When September Ends.”
– 5 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
★ “Beautiful” by Christina Aguliera – Song Analysis Activity
– This is the song that introduces Summer’s section in the novel — Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful.”
– 5 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ AFTER READING
★ Essay Writing and Speech Project
– 3 response to literature writing prompts for learners to choose from
– optional delivery of essay as a speech
– includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 10 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,9
– CCSS.ELA-SpeakingListening.SL.1,4,6
★ Movie vs. Novel Comparison Activity – movie released Nov 2017
– 4 pages & slides
– compare & contrast the movie and novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
And remember … When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.
