CRASH Novel Study - Characterization, Context Clues, and Inference Activities
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- Easel Activity
Description
This novel study for CRASH includes chapter questions, a before reading activity, two characterization activities, two context clues activities, two inferencing activities, and a review card game. Questions are text dependent and written specifically for this novel.
There is one page of text dependent questions for every three chapter of Jerry Spinelli's novel, CRASH, a total of sixteen pages of chapter questions. Each page has eight questions including characterization questions, context clues questions, and inferencing questions with lines for students' answers. These can be used for interactive notebook pages or for chapter assessments of these three important skills.
The prereading activity asks students to imagine what the main characters, Crash and Penn, are like based on information from the back cover of the book and also has students sort story vocabulary words and use these words to write a prediction.
One characterization activity is a character map about the main character, Crash. The other is a characterization chart about all of the most important characters.
The context clues activities involve locating context clues, choosing the best definitions, and defining vocabulary that is unique to the story.
The inferencing activities ask students to make inferences about what might have happened in different situations using ideas from the story, and to explain quotations from the story.
The I Have . . .Who Has . . ? game is a fun whole class activity for reviewing details from the novel after reading.
The Easel Activity is ready to use with answer boxes for student responses. It includes all of the chapter questions and activity sheets. The printable card game is located in the PDF file.
This novel study supports a number of the Reading: Literature standards, especially those involving using text-based evidence, determining main ideas and details, using context clues, and making inferences.
Also see more novel study assignments here.
For specific reading skills, see Task Cards and Info Text.
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