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

<p><strong><em>Silverwing Sunwing and Firewing!</em></strong> 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.</p><p><strong>Expectations:</strong></p><p>1. To identify and explore the various members and places that contribute to a successful community.</p><p>2. To negotiate and cooperate with others in order to meet a common goal.</p><p>3. To correctly answer questions by category and to answer extended comprehension questions using supporting evidence from the text.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>List of Skills</strong></p><p>Specific Work:</p><p>1. Outline a book report for children using questions by category and extended comprehension.</p><p>2. Research contemporary issues as mentioned in the novel.</p><p>3. Use new words that can be used for vocabulary and sentence structure skills.</p><p>4. Skim for information to develop claim and support skills.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Work Appropriate Kenneth Oppel Novels</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Visual Arts</p><p>1. Illustrate a scene from any one of the novels</p><p>2. Construct origami bats</p><p>3. Construct a peephole box</p><p><br></p><p>Science</p><p>1. Read about the diversity of living things</p><p>2. Bat research project</p><p><br></p><p>Grammar Punctuation and Vocabulary</p><p>1. Cloze activities</p><p>2. Crossword Puzzles</p><p>3. Word Scrambles</p><p>4. Missing Letters Activities</p><p>5. Word Shapes</p><p>6. Punctuation Activities: commas quotation marks periods apostrophes</p><p>7. Decoding Activities</p><p>8. Matching Activities</p><p>9. Definition Activities</p><p>10. Word Map Activities</p><p><br></p><p>Writing</p><p>1. Venn Diagrams</p><p>2. Character Sketches</p><p>3. Chapter Summaries</p><p>4. Personal Opinions</p><p>5. Claim and Support Writing</p><p>6. Extended Comprehension</p><p>7. Questions by Category</p><p><br></p><p>Drama</p><p>1. Character Chair</p><p>2. Communicative Book Talk</p><p><br></p><p>Creative and Critical Thinking</p><p>1. Research myths about bats</p><p>2. Research and compare different species of bats</p><p>3. Research construction of bat houses</p><p>4. Identify emotions and instincts as a help or a hindrance</p><p>5. Choose and expand on an alternate plotline</p><p>6. Summarize the stories in a news report</p><p>7. Discuss the importance of the antagonist in a novel</p>