The Hobbit Reading Comprehension
Madeline Hunter Style
Lesson created by: Doug VanTuyle
Grade Level: 8th Grade
Book:The Hobbit
Author:J.R.R. Tolkien
Objectives:Given a fill in the blank worksheet with a word bank, students will fill in the blanks to complete reading comprehensions sentences on chapter two of The Hobbit by themselves with 80% accuracy.
Materials and Resources:
An overhead projector, copies of the The Hobbit, one transparency worksheet for chapter one, copies for the fill in the blankworksheet for chapter one and two, and pencils
Anticipatory Set:
Ask students if they read chapters one and two last night and ask them if they think they'll enjoy the book from what they read.
Teaching:
Input On the projector, project the transparency of the worksheet for chapter one and complete it as a class while including models, guided practice, and independent practice. The students will complete their copies for chapter one as you do.
Modeling Read aloud the first fill in the blank sentence and do a think-aloud (let students know that sentences appear in sequential order throughout the chapter) to show the students how to select the appropriate word from the word bank.
Guided Practice:
For the second fill in the blank, have a student volunteer to read aloud the sentence.
Then, ask students what would make sense as a proper fill in the blank, and have them justify their answer with information from chapter one.
Repeat this again for the next two sentences.
For the rest of the assignment on chapter one, have the students finish the assignment as you walk around the room to check students' work for understanding.
Independent Practice: Assign the chapter two worksheet for students to complete in the remainder of the class and as homework.
Closure: Tell students that doing the worksheet for each chapter helps them understand the chapters and will later benefit them because they will have notes for later studying.
The Hobbit Chapter 1 Summary Worksheet
Name:______
Date:______
Hour:______
Bagginsgold
Lonely / East
Gandalf
map / Misty
thievish
Thorin / shoes
battle-hardened
West / Bag End
Smaug
Erebor
1. Hobbits are generally small people who prefer not to have ______.
2. Bag End is found in the ______.
3. The entire Hobbit race lives in ______.
4. Bilbo's complete name is Bilbo ______.
5. A timely wizard named ______brings the 12 dwarves to Bilbo's hobbit hole.
6. Gandalf persuades the dwarves that Bilbo is indeed ______and suitable for the task.
7. The true King Under the Mountain, and grandson to Thror is ______.
8. Thror became obsessed over ______and not his own duties.
9. The dragon, ______, claimed the LonelyMountain and all of it's treasure.
10. Thorin was pushed out of his home in the ______Mountain.
11.Gandalf presents Thorin a key to get into ______.
12. An enchanted ______encrypts a hidden message.
13. Bilbo, Gandalf, and the dwarves plan to head ______to get to the Lonely
Mountain.
14. The not so ______dwarves are willing to adapt new skills for the adventure.
15. The first obstruction that the group will have to conquer is the ______
Mountain.
The Hobbit Chapter 2 Summary Worksheet
Name:______
Date:______
Hour:______
Stingtrolls
elves / a handkerchief
light
weapons / hid
manors
buried / attitude
blue
log / Orcrist
red
freed
1. As the party of adventurers set out, Bilbo forgot ______.
2. Bilbo has a hard time away from home because he can't stand the ______of the
dwarves.
3. Thorin did not approve of Bilbo because of his unlikely thief ______.
4. Bilbo saw a ______light in the distant woods that appealed to the group.
5. Three ______captured the Dwarves for supper at the campsite.
6. Bilbo was not caught and ______by the trolls.
7. After that, Bilbo ______some of the dwarves.
8. Thorin used a giant ______to take out one troll's eye.
9. Trolls turned to stone after Gandalf exposed magic ______to them.
10. After defeating the trolls, the party stumbled across a cave full of ______and
gold.
11. The name of the elven sword Gandalf found and gave to Bilbo was ______.
12. Thorin's sword of choice was ______.
13. Like other elven swords, it glows ______at the sense of Orks and Goblins.
14. Gandalf and Bilbo thought all of the troll gold should be ______.
15. Rivendell was the next destined city that is home to many ______.