Reading with Kenneth Oppel Author Study Grades 4-6 Silverwing, Sunwing and 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 Skills

Specific 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 Novels

Visual Arts

1. Illustrate a scene from any one of the novels

2. Construct origami bats

3. Construct a peephole box

Science

1. Read about the diversity of living things

2. Bat research project

Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary

1. Cloze activities

2. Crossword Puzzles

3. Word Scrambles

4. Missing Letters Activities

5. Word Shapes

6. Punctuation Activities: commas, quotation marks, periods, apostrophes

7. Decoding Activities

8. Matching Activities

9. Definition Activities

10. Word Map Activities

Writing

1. Venn Diagrams

2. Character Sketches

3. Chapter Summaries

4. Personal Opinions

5. Claim and Support Writing

6. Extended Comprehension

7. Questions by Category

Drama

1. Character Chair

2. Communicative Book Talk

Creative and Critical Thinking

1. Research myths about bats

2. Research and compare different species of bats

3. Research construction of bat houses

4. Identify emotions and instincts as a help or a hindrance

5. Choose and expand on an alternate plotline

6. Summarize the stories in a news report

7. Discuss the importance of the antagonist in a novel