Friday, 7 February 2014
Plot Summaries
The historical fiction story "Safe As Houses"by Eric Walters is a perfect example for clearly modelling story elements and the Plot Diagram. The students created a final Reading Project to show their understanding of the story elements, and the theme(s) of the story They were provided with the success criteria throughout the process and then assessed with this rubric.

Monday, 3 February 2014
Character Study
After much modeling during our read aloud of "Wonder" the students each chose an independent novel to read. While reading we tracked our thinking about the characteristics of the main character in our stories and the evidence in the text that helped us to draw these conclusions. We completed a Character Poster as a final project.
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