TALL TALES

Jessica Coulter, Kristy Familar
Lara Seagle, Louise Urban



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Discussion Director:

Your job is to come up with five thinking questions. You want to make your group to think about what they have just read. It is important to ask thinking questions and not just questions that are right in the book. Think of a setting question, compare/contrast question, multiple choice end of the grade question, characterization question and one on your own.
 
 

Passage Picker:

Your job is to choose four passages from the reading that you want to discuss with your group. They can include passages that are: important, surprising, historical, funny, scary, informative, controversial, confusing, thematic, interesting, descriptive, persuasive or demonstrate: personification, fantasy, problem/solution, simile, idiom, fact/opinion, math, metaphor, alliteration, scientific, cause/effect, or foreshadowing. Once the passage has been chosen, write down the page number and paragraph number, the first two and last two words in the passage, what type of passage it is and why it demonstrates that, a thinking question about the passage, and why the author included this passage.

Choose passages for this section that:
1.  demonstrate a simile
2.  descriptive
3.  ironic
4.  thematic
 


Word Wizard:

Your job is to pick out five words that you find interesting or are unfamiliar with. For each word you will need to write the page and paragraph number where the word is found, the definition of the word, the part of speech, the sentence from the reading containing that word, and an explanation telling how this word adds meaning to the story. Finally, you must make a wizard card. Be sure to include the word, page and paragraph number on one side and on the other include a picture, the word and the definition of the word.

Find and make a card for the following words:
Forlorn - Page 30 paragraph 4
Deftly - Page 32 paragraph 7
Preposterous - Page 34 paragraph 6
Scowled - Page 46 line 3
Pig Latin - Page 53 first line

Character Sketcher:

Your job is to choose an interesting character from the section you read. You will find three character traits and proof of that trait, the character’s goals, and the problem and solution of the character. Finally you must illustrate your character.

Character sketch:
Madame Zeroni

Summarizer:

Your job is to give a brief summary of the section.  You are to include the beginning middle and the end of the section as well as the major points.  Remember in the summary to include who, what, when, where, and why.

Here is an example.
 
 
 

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