First Chapter Friday Response Sheets for Any Book, Grades 5-8

Response sheets for First Chapter Friday that work with the first chapter of any book you read aloud, plus a lesson that teaches students how to fill them in. Students say what happened, catch a detail they heard, think past it and write the question the chapter leaves open.

What's inside

• 12 slides, with speaker notes on every slide
• Lesson plan, 2 pages: 40-minute sequence keyed to slide numbers, a 30-minute short version and a Watch For list
• Sample first chapter, 1 page: a made-up chapter written for this lesson, for you to read aloud
• Student pages, 6 pages: Response Sheets A, B and C as full pages (3 pages), and the same three as half pages, two to a page (3 pages)
• Rubric and look-for key, 1 page, with one scored model
• Print All PDF, 10 pages: the lesson plan, sample chapter, student pages and rubric together

Answer key included

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