Book: Jake Drake Bully Buster READ ALOUD Chapter Book

Author: Andrew Clements

Reading Block / Read Aloud with Accountable Talk
Teaching Point and Essential Questions.
Strategy and/or Skill / ·  Make and Confirm Predictions
·  Make Connections
·  Create Mental Images
·  Self Questioning/Character Feelings
·  Determine Importance/ Problem-Solution
·  Author’s Message
Materials: / ·  Text: Jake Drake Bully Buster by Andrew Clements
·  Reader’s Toolkit and sticky notes
·  Anchor Chart or Notebook page to hold sticky notes
Make Connections
Text to Self / Day 1 Chapter 1:
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Teaching Point:
Readers often relate to their character by sharing similar thoughts, actions and feelings. This is called making a text – to – self connection.
Essential Questions:
1. Have you ever been bullied? Write about a time you or someone you know was bullied.
2. How did you feel?
3. Did you feel the same or different as Jake?
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Make Connections
Compare/Contrast / Day 2 Chapter 2:
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Teaching Point:
Readers compare their character and setting with something familiar in their own lives.
Essential Questions:
1. How is Jake’s class similar to our class?
2. How is Jake’s class different from our class?
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Make and Confirm
Predictions / Day 3 Chapter 3:
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Teaching Point:
Readers make a prediction or a “guess”, based on observations or experiences, to anticipate what the character is going to do next.
Essential Questions:
1. What do you predict Jake is going to change?
2. Why? Is this based on your own experience?
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Mental Image / Day 4 Chapter 4:
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Teaching Point:
Readers take the words of the text and combine them with the reader’s background knowledge to create meaningful images that make the story come alive.
Essential Questions:
1. Think of a time you were bullied at home or bullied a brother or a sister.
2. Compare it to the scene with Jake bullying his little sister.
3. Draw a picture of the scene.
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Determine Importance
Problem/Solution / Day 5 Chapter 5:
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Teaching Point:
Readers figure out the problem in the story and possible solutions by focusing on the main character and what they know about their character.
Essential Questions:
1. What is my characters main problem?
2. What are possible solutions to my characters problem?
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Self Questioning
Character Traits / Day 6 Chapter 6:
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Teaching Point:
Readers pay close attention to how their character is feeling and how their character may change from the beginning of the chapter to the end.
Essential Questions:
1. Describe how Jake feels at the beginning of the chapter. (character traits)
2. How do his feelings change from the beginning of the chapter to the end?
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Determine Importance
Problem/Solution / Day 7 Chapter 7:
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Teaching Point:
Readers understand their character and may agree or disagree with their decisions. Readers think ahead and wonder what their character will do next.
Essential Questions:
1. Did Jakes solution to ignore Link work?
2. Do you think Jake will come up with a better solution?
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Make and Confirm Predictions / Day 8 Chapter 8:
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Teaching Point:
Readers use their background knowledge as well as clues from the text to make predictions or logically “guess” what will happen next to their character.
Essential Questions:
1. What do you predict is going to happen when Link opens the door?
2. Confirm your prediction at the end of chapter 9.
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Self Questioning
Character Traits / Day 9 Chapter 9:
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Teaching Point:
Readers pay close attention to how the secondary character is feeling and how the character may change from the beginning of the chapter (or story) to the end.
Essential Questions:
1. Describe Links actions from the beginning of the chapter (or story).
2. Describe Links actions at the end of chapter 9.
3. Compare how Link changes from the beginning to the end of the chapter.
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Author’s Message / Day 10 Chapter 10:
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Teaching Point:
Readers hear the author’s voice speaking through the story. The message weaves through the plot, setting, and characters and triggers an emotional response from the reader.
Essential Questions:
1. What does this story mean to you?
2. How can you apply what you learned to your own life?
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