Novel Study for Any Book: Big Ideas & Wrap-Up, Grades 3-5

A short end-of-book wrap-up for any chapter book, built from the pages and logs students kept while reading. Page 1 looks back: sum up the whole book in four or five sentences, say how the main character met the biggest problem, and name one question the book answered and one it left open. Page 2 holds the big idea: one sentence about life, two details with page numbers that show it, and a word from the word log to keep.

What's inside

• 17 slides, with speaker notes on every slide
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Book Snapshot, 1 page: the made-up sample book, written for this lesson
• Student pages, 2 pages: Looking Back, and My Big Idea
• Rubric and look-for key, 1 page, with one scored model
• Print All PDF, 6 pages: the lesson plan, Book Snapshot, student pages and rubric together

Answer key included

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