Lesson Plan
Exploring the Features of a Book Series
Students will engage their analytical skills and literacy skills as they compare books within a series. The central activity in this lesson will have students identifying, comparing, and contrasting the shared features of books in a series.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify the features that all books in a series share.
Students will be able to compare and contrast the main features of books in a series: genre, location, time period and problem.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Ask students to share their favorite book series and why they like it. If you have some dramatic students they could do an impromptu commercial for the series.
Beginning:
- Provide an example of a book series for students before beginning the brainstorm.
- Pre-teach the word "series" using a Frayer Model.
Intermediate:
- Allow students to talk to a peer in L1 or L2 before engaging in a whole class discussion.
- Provide a sentence frame to support the discussion (e.g., "An example of a book series is ________. I liked it because ________.").