Lessons to Implement While Reading the Novel

Plot Profiles Plot profiles are used to chart the action or excitement within a chapter book. If the chapter contains many exciting incidents, a point is placed high on the chart. If the chapter does not contain exciting incidents or action, the point is placed low on the plot profile chart.

High Low Chapter Stone Fox Plot Profile Example

High Low Plot Profile Chapter

Standards for Plot Profiles R5.A.1.5.1: Summarize the key details and events of a fictional text as a whole. R5.B.3.3.3: Interpret graphics and charts and/or make connections between text and the content of graphics and charts. R5.B.1.1.1: Plot (may also be called action): Identify, explain, interpret, compare, describe, and/or analyze elements of the plot (conflict, rising action, climax, and/or resolution). Identify, explain, interpret, compare, describe, and/or analyze the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of text.

Online Resource E DUCATOR ’ S G UIDE E DUCATOR ’ S G UIDE Vocabulary/Comprehension/Critical Thinking/Creative Expression Activities This guide was created specifically for teachers and librarians who are reading The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in their classrooms. It is extremely detailed and provides vocabulary and activities for every chapter in the book. The guide can be accessed by clicking the link above or by visiting C.S. Lewis’s website.

Lessons to Implement After Reading the Novel

Static and Dynamic Characters Discuss how and why which characters changed or stayed the same throughout the course of the novel.

Edmund-Dynamic One way to discuss Edmund’s changes throughout the novel would be to separate the class into groups. Assign half of the groups to discuss and record Edmunds behavior at the beginning of the novel and the other groups to record and discuss his behaviors at the end of the novel. Together, the class can discuss why he changed and which specific incidents may have affected his behaviors. In addition, instead of each group focusing on one character, you could have four groups and assign a character to each group. As a result, each groups could share their ideas and the rest of the groups could discuss whether they agree or disagree with their findings.

Standards for Character Analysis R5.B.1.1.1: Identify, explain, interpret, compare, describe, and/or analyze components of fiction and literary nonfiction. Character (may also be called narrator, speaker, subject of a biography): Identify, explain, interpret, compare, describe, and/or analyze character actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within fictional or literary nonfictional text. R5.B.1.1.1: Identify, explain, interpret, compare, describe, and/or analyze the relationship between characters and other components of text.

Cair Paravel Castle Craft Collaborate with your art teacher and have your students create a Cair Paravel castle model using materials such as shoe boxes, milk cartons, toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, and toothpicks. Example Castle Craft

Watch the Movie! During the movie, have your students keep track of any differences from the book, their favorite scenes, and maybe even scenes that they dislike. This would be easiest to do if you already had a handout or graphic organizer made with questions and spaces for student answers.

Make Turkish Delight Make Turkish Delight and have your students eat it as a treat while they are watching the movie version of the book. Turkish Delight had a big impact on the decisions of Edmund at the beginning of the novel, and most likely, your students have probably never had the dessert before. Click Here for a Recipe!

Do a Book Talk The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has a prequel, The Magician’s Nephew, and multiple sequels, including The Horse and his Boy, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Make a Display “Never judge a book by its movie.” ~J.W. Eagan Motivate your students to read by creating a “book to movie” display. The impending release of a movie that was adapted from a book usually makes that title the most popular book to check out and put on hold in your library (i.e. The Hunger Games). This display will reintroduce books from the past with movie adaptations that your students may have never heard of. Students seem to be more willing to try reading a book that has a movie adaptation they can view afterwards.

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