Reading with Kenneth Oppel Author Study Grades 4-6 Silverwing, Sunwing & Firewing

Silverwing, Sunwing and Firewing! Student will love reading this trilogy and you will love the NO PREP worksheets to teach reading fluency and literacy strategies! Story summaries, teacher suggestions, a resource list, student tracking sheet, and answer key make each resource easy to use.Expectations:1. To identify and explore the various members and places that contribute to a successful community.2. To negotiate and cooperate with others in order to meet a common goal.3. To correctly answer questions by category and to answer extended comprehension questions using supporting evidence from the text.List of SkillsSpecific Work:1. Outline a book report for children using questions by category and extended comprehension.2. Research contemporary issues, as mentioned in the novel.3. Use new words that can be used for vocabulary and sentence structure skills.4. Skim for information to develop claim and support skills.Work Appropriate Kenneth Oppel NovelsVisual Arts1. Illustrate a scene from any one of the novels2. Construct origami bats3. Construct a peephole boxScience1. Read about the diversity of living things2. Bat research projectGrammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary1. Cloze activities2. Crossword Puzzles3. Word Scrambles4. Missing Letters Activities5. Word Shapes6. Punctuation Activities: commas, quotation marks, periods, apostrophes7. Decoding Activities8. Matching Activities9. Definition Activities10. Word Map ActivitiesWriting1. Venn Diagrams2. Character Sketches3. Chapter Summaries4. Personal Opinions5. Claim and Support Writing6. Extended Comprehension7. Questions by CategoryDrama1. Character Chair2. Communicative Book TalkCreative and Critical Thinking1. Research myths about bats2. Research and compare different species of bats3. Research construction of bat houses4. Identify emotions and instincts as a help or a hindrance5. Choose and expand on an alternate plotline6. Summarize the stories in a news report7. Discuss the importance of the antagonist in a novel