What if there was a generic novel study guide full of book study activities that you could use with every novel study unit that you teach in your classroom? Bonus points if it is digital and interactive!
Engage students with every novel study you lead this school year by combining the book with this interactive novel study unit.
These generic novel study activities are the perfect companion to all of your future book studies.
The best part? Your upper elementary students will become familiar with each digital activity so they can get right to work on practicing, so applying them to all of your book study units is a breeze. No copies required!
✨Check out the preview for a closer look at what is included with this set of Google slide interactive novel study templates.
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What’s Included in this Resource:
✅47 interactive Google slides full of engaging generic novel study questions and prompts that cover multiple reading comprehension and literacy skills that you can use with any book
✅A clickable contents page to help keep students organized throughout the novel study
✅Student instructions and choices in the margins
✅Practice with dragging and dropping, digital drawing, and inserting images
This Reading Response Choice Board Includes 24 Engaging Activities Perfect for Upper Elementary:
- Plot Diagram
- Character Analysis Main
- Character Analysis Supporting
- Compare and Contrast Characters
- Character Changes
- Compare and Contrast Books
- Point of View
- Prediction Texting
- Making an Inference
- Making Connections
- Character Conflict
- Chapter Summary
- Book Summary
- Parts of Speech Hunt
- Novel News Report
- New Vocabulary
- Story Snaps
- Novel Comic Strip
- Alternate Ending
- Create a Book Cover
- Reading Graffiti
- Movie Poster
- Theme Poster
- PLUS a Title and Author Page, Notes Pages, and a Book Rating
- Any of these activity slides can be either DUPLICATED or DELETED to suit the needs of your students
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Using these daily literacy activities is EASY as 1..2..
✅Share the digital slides (NO COPYING!) with your students.
✅Assign specific activities or allow students to use it as a choice board as they work through a novel study unit
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What Skills Are Covered?
✅Reading comprehension
✅Plot analysis
✅Plot structure
✅Character analysis
✅Character traits
✅Compare and contrast characters
✅Character changes in story
✅Point of view
✅Making predictions
✅Making inferences
✅Making connections
✅Summarizing
✅Creative writing
✅Identifying new vocabulary
✅Compare and contrast novels
✅Parts of speech practice
✅Character conflict
✅Responding to reading
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What EXACTLY is Each Activity?
- Plot Diagram – a blank plot diagram for which students identify exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
- Character Analysis Main – a character traits graphic organizer for which students locate and identify five character traits of the main character and support their claim with text evidence – also included with this activity is a prompt for students to express their opinion of the character
- Character Analysis Supporting – a character traits graphic organizer with the same features as above, except students will analyze a supporting character – 2 slides are included for students to respond to two different supporting characters
- Compare and Contrast Characters – a compare and contrast graphic organizer students use to study two characters in the story
- Character Changes – a character traits graphic organizer for which students are prompted to look back at their original main character analysis and think about how the character changes in story – they are asked to determine if they still agree with the character traits they chose and choose three more traits that describe the character later in the story
- Compare and Contrast Books – a comparing and contrasting graphic organizer Venn diagram for which students analyze the current book’s similarities and differences in comparison with another book they have read
- Point of View – students are asked to identify if the story is written in first person, second person, or third person, and give evidence of their findings – then they are asked to rewrite a section of the text from a different point of view
- Prediction Texting – a set of 3 activities for making predictions – these text conversation writing prompts allow students to have an imaginary text conversation with a friend about the book they are reading, making predictions and providing text evidence, all while using fun and engaging texting lingo
- The first text asks students to make a prediction and provide text evidence
- The second text asks students to evaluate their first prediction and then make a second prediction with text evidence
- The third text asks students to evaluate both of their previous predictions and make one more prediction with text evidence
- Making an Inference – this reading comprehension strategy is practiced with three separate activities for which students practice inferencing – the inference graphic organizer includes text + schema = inference
- Making Connections – a graphic organizer including a space for students to make text to text connections, text to self connections, and text to world connections as they are reading
- Character Conflict – a character activity asking students to identify the type of conflict that is present in the story AND describe their thoughts:
- Character vs. Self
- Character vs. Nature
- Character vs. Character
- Character vs. Society
- Chapter Summary – Three summarizing graphic organizers are included with a beginning, middle, and end space for students to type their summary
- Book Summary – a summarizing activity identical to the chapter summary which requires students to summarize the entire book
- Parts of Speech Hunt – 3 interactive slides for students to search within the book for parts of speech practice – they will find:
- Nouns
- Verbs
- Pronouns
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Novel News Report – for this creative writing activity students will pretend they are a news reporter and write a story that “informs the public” about an assigned chapter’s events – this is a summarizing activity
- New Vocabulary – a vocabulary graphic organizer that provides a space for students to record new and unfamiliar words from the novel and identify the definition of the word
- Story Snaps – this engaging activity is included 5 times throughout the digital slides collection – students search for three images that describe the mood or theme of an assigned chapter
- Novel Comic Strip – a comic strip template that allows students to drag and drop the provided characters and text boxes into the slide as they recreate a major event in the novel – they can also insert their own images
- Alternate Ending – a creative writing prompt that requires students to rewrite the ending of the story
- Create a Book Cover – a creative reading response that allows students to create their own book cover for the novel after they have read it – this activity secretly provides summarizing practice!
- Reading Graffiti – a unique and engaging digital design activity that provides a space for students to create a digital drawing that depicts the story
- Movie Poster – a blank canvas with instructions that read: “The book is going to be made into a movie and the producers have hired YOU to create the poster to advertise it! Contratulations!” – digital push pins are provided to make the poster appear more realistic
- Theme Poster – students will create a digital poster that represents one or more of the themes from the book
- Notes Pages – a space for students to type notes as they read or as their book club has discussions
- Book Rating – a slide at the end of the novel study guide that allows students to rate the book and provide their opinions:
- Rate it – students rate the book with a drag and drop thumbs up, thumbs down, and stars
- Reason it – students provide 3 reasons to justify their rating
- Rename it – students give the book a new title
- The novel study unit guide begins with a space for students to record the title and author of the book – this helps if you use the activities for more than one book throughout the year, students can stay organized in their Google drive
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✨Want to change up the order of the activities? All you need to do is reorder them before you share them with your students.
✨Want more of a particular activity? DUPLICATE the slide – just be aware that the clickable contents page will not be connected to the slide you added.
✨Don’t want your students to have access to all of the activities at once? Here’s what I did when I was in the classroom: I saved each individual activity slide into my Google drive and made them shareable with my students. Then I assigned them as I wanted my students to complete them!
✨Don’t like one of the activities? No problem! You can delete any of the slides that you don’t want your students to use.