I told my students before reading that there is a bit of a mystery within this book, and I want to see if they are able to find clues along the way to try and solve it. Students can use these notebooks to record anything they hear in the story that sounds “fishy” or as I explained in other word to my grade 4’s, something that does not sound right/something that does not make sense. I have also given each student their own little notepads to jot notes.They can bring these to the carpet, along with their maps of the City of Ember, while I read to them. As I read parts of the novel to them, I introduce new reading strategies (whether we are focusing on comprehension, accuracy, fluency or expanding vocabulary) or I re-visit different strategies we have already discussed before.Īn activity I have my students do while I’m reading, so that they are more inclined to listen the whole time, is that I have given them maps of Ember that they can bring to the carpet, so that they can pinpoint where the main characters are throughout the story. So, in order to develop these skills, I have blended CAFE reading strategies with our City of Ember novel study. As a part of the curriculum, I need to assess my students on their ability to listen, summarize, paraphrase, and evaluate what they listen to and be able to draw conclusions from that (CR 4.3). I am most excited to use the City of Ember to also assess my students on their comprehension levels. However, the ideas both items have are wonderful and I plan to adapt as much as possible to incorporate into our own unit. I feel that the two TPT purchases I made include questions that are geared more for intermediate students. I really like the free resource I found, because the questions are much more simplistic for my grade 4’s to comprehend and respond to (get it here). I have been pulling different pages from each of these collections, as well as from a free online source. To start developing my binder of resources for this novel study, I downloaded two resources off of TPT from here and here. To my surprise I really enjoyed it! Even though I was a bit disappointed with the beginning (I think my hopes were set way to high, as well as I was thinking this was going to be like the Hunger Games – so really the beginning of this book is probably awesome, I just ruined it for myself), the rest of the book picks up and is a great read! If you love the Hunger Games and the Divergent series, give this a read (I believe it is a set of 4 books all together to complete the series!) It was not until I came across it in our class library that I thought about giving it a read for myself. I never gave the book any thought for the next few years. He explained to me what it was about, gave me the limited resources he had and has used for the past couple of years, and that was it. My associate teacher was doing this book with his Grade 6’s as a novel study. I first heard of this book from one of my past teaching placements. She finds Granny's body, empty of life.I am excited to write today about our first novel study as a class! The book we are doing is called The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. Lina wakes up again at six, when the lights come on.At some point, Granny tells her that she's okay, and Lina can go back to sleep. She goes to her, and holds her hand and strokes her forehead. During the night, Lina hears Granny calling her.Since she has colored pencils for once, she decides to color in the sky and make it blue-which is strange, since everyone in Ember knows that the sky is black. As usual, Lina draws the city she sees in her mind.In order to keep Poppy occupied, Lina suggests that they draw. During a lucid moment, Granny asks Lina whether they'd found "it." Lina assures her that they have-whatever that means.The town doctor comes to check on Granny at Lina's request, and tells Lina to stay home to take care of Granny that day, make her soup, stuff like that.When she goes in to wake Granny, she finds that the old woman has come down with a fever.
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