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Description-Allows students to gather details and text evidence on one of the characters from the book or story being read.  Helps keep the information organized for easy understanding.

Advantages-
-Helps students to expand knowledge on one of the characters.
-Helps students get a better understanding of the text when they have to find text evidence to support their trait they chose.

Disadvantages-
-Some students may confuse a character trait and a character emotion.
-Students may struggle to find specific text evidence to support their answer.
-Requires a lot of writing so students need to be able to write most words.

Parks (2017) Block 2 cooperating teacher.

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Description- Students build a tree. Each part of the tree presents a part of the story element. Or the students could build a tree based on the main character. They can list the traits, words that describe the character, what happened to the character, how the character grew. The tree can be based on many different things.

Advantages-
-This would be a good after read activity to reflect on what students learned.
-Would be a good class activity to work on together.
-Allows students to really dissect the story.

Disadvantages-
-Some students may have trouble thinking of 8 words if they are working on this alone.
-Would be hard to expand on this organizer for another lesson.
-Students would need to have a large vocabulary to do this activity.

Reimann,Carol (2017) Let's Make Literacy "Sparkle" for Your Students!, RPD

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Description- Helps students build on vocabulary. Students have to show what they know by expanding on the word, they have to give characteristics that are similar and some that are not and they have to give examples of the word and non-examples of the word.

Advantages-
-Makes students use critical thinking.
-Allows students to expand on their vocabulary
-Gives visual learning of the new vocab word.

Disadvantages-
-Students may lack prior knowledge and not be able to fill out all of the boxes fully.
-Can be a lengthy assignment if there are a lot of words.
-Would not be good for lower grades such as first and kindergarten

Reimann,Carol (2017) Let's Make Literacy "Sparkle" for Your Students!, RPD

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Description-Give students a paint swatch that has four colors on it. Have students write First, Next, Then, Last. Then have students fill in the plot of the story.
Advantages-
-Helps students easily separate the order of the story.
-Can be used an a exit slip
-Makes for a good study tool.

Disadvantages-
-Students might need to work together to fill out the paint swatch.
-Has to be certain colors in order to see the pencil writing.

Reimann,Carol (2017) Let's Make Literacy "Sparkle" for Your Students!, RPD

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Description- Have students get a piece of printer paper. Tell the students to fold hotdog style and then rip the top corner off. Finally, have students rip the center and unfold reveling the shape of a t-shirt.

Advantages-
-Students get to be creative.
-Very hands on
-Allows students to visually see what they took from the story
-Can be used for more than literacy.

Disadvantages-
-Not good for younger students
-Students might have trouble tearing the paper.

Reimann,Carol (2017) Let's Make Literacy "Sparkle" for Your Students!, RPD

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Description- Students place sticky notes on places where they have questions in their reading or they can write down a question or thought they have about the text.

Advantages-
-Allows students to easily reference back to a special spot in the book.
-Allows students to quickly think what they are reading.
-Allows students to think harder about what they are reading.

Disadvantages-
-Students might lose some sticky notes.
-Some students might not write in depth questions about their reading.
-Some students may spend more time writing sticky note thoughts than they do reading.

Reimann,Carol (2017) Let's Make Literacy "Sparkle" for Your Students!, RPD

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Description- An anticipation guide is an activity you do before you read a story. It is usually set up to have questions that students can mark if they agree or disagree. Then after reading they can find out if their answers are correct and provide text evidence to support it.

Advantages-
-Gets students interested in reading the story or book.
-Gives the teacher some knowledge on what students already know and do not know.
-Can be used a group activity or a individual activity.

Disadvantages-
-Not all students will try on this knowing it is not for a grade.
-Some students might change their answers throughout the reading to make it seem like they got all the answers right.

Reimann,Carol (2017) Let's Make Literacy "Sparkle" for Your Students!, RPD

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Description- A think-pair-share chart allows students to independently think about the topic, then the students can pair with a partner and discuss their answers and finally the class can share with everyone.

Advantages-
-Allows students to work with other classmates, creating a better classroom environment.
-This activity gets students up and moving which helps them to stay focused more.
-Gives students who may not understand quite so well a chance to talk with a partner to better understand the topic.

Disadvantages-
-If there is not good classroom management then this a can be loud.
-Not all students questions will be on the same level, which may cause some students to disengage.
-Some students may not further their learning with this activity. For example they may not use it as a study resource.

The think pair share chart is on page 23 and is the first choice under the think pair share heading.

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Description- The character map would be a good tool for 2nd grade. This allows students to define each character from the book, students can easily tell how the plot impacts the character and how the character impacts the plot.

Advantages-
-Easily define main characters.
-Helps break the story down and organize the plot and key points from the book.
-Students can work in groups to help fill in the text boxes.
-Can be used for both fiction and  non-fiction.

Disadvantages-
-This activity includes a lot of writing so it would not be a good independent project for kindergarten or 1st grade.
-Students might struggle to define the main characters from less important characters.

The character map is on page 7 and the first choice under the character map heading.

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Description-The KWL chart stands for "What you know", What you want to know", and "What you learned". This is a good tool to use for an introduction to a lesson and gives students a chance to assess what they already know. Students can work individually or in a group.

Advantages-
-Allows students to think about prior knowledge on content.
-Allows students to be active thinkers while reading.
-Ensures students are comprehending what they are learning.

Disadvantages-
-This is a visual activity so it may not help students who learn using auditory or hands on.
- Students might not try as hard as they should just writing down things they want to know, know, and learned.
-Needs to be used frequently or is not a useful classroom strategy.

KWL chart is the first chart under the KWL section and on page 12.