Look Inside: Hoot Novel Study | Cross Curricular Literature Study for ALL Ages

Hey everybody, welcome to the Wallock Way. I'm Jessica. Today's video is going to be a look inside our Hoot novel study. The only thing you would need for this novel study is either a copy or an audible version of Carl Hyest's book, Hoot. And then everything else you need is going to be included in that novel study. So, let's go ahead and take a look at what's inside this crosscurricular literature study for all ages. The first thing that you're going to see is basically a lesson plan. There are five weeks of reading along with everything that you would do. So, you're going to have copy work, vocabulary, writing, comprehension, and then on the sixth week, this is going to be a review week. So, you're going to be doing a lot of fun things to review the book that you've read. Here we have crosscurricular connection. So there are ideas and activities for every single subject. So ways that you can bring this book to life in math, writing, social studies, science, art, and music. So ways that you can like really extend it. We have favorite quotes from Hoot where you can write down your favorite quotes as you are reading the book. And then the five weeks again are going to be very similar. So we have copy work for each week. I have now updated all of the novel studies to include actual teaching about the passage. So, for example, this passage shows how informal letters are formatted. Notice how dear Dana begins the note most sincerely is the closing, both needing commas. Also, the second paragraph could use a comma or a period to break up the run-on sentence. This is a great way to discuss run-on sentences and how punctuation helps clarify ideas. Ask your child to point to where the comma might make the last sentence a little more clear. So I've extended the copy work a little bit for you. Then we have vocabulary. This they're going to be matching the words from the left to the definition on the right. There is creative writing each week. Some form of comprehension for the chapters that you've read that week. And then a summary of the chapters that you've read that week as well. Again, like I said, each week for the first five weeks repeats very similar. You're just going to be learning different things. So, here's copy work. And here we're going to be talking about past tense, different version of vocabulary, a creative writing. We're going to be doing a case file, comprehension, and summary. Now, I'm just going to go ahead and flip through so you can see that while we have vocabulary and writing, they do vary each week. And then once we get through those five weeks, we have the review week. So fun activities like a word search, a cross word puzzle, redesigning the book cover, story setting. So you're going to draw a picture and describe the setting, identifying the theme and finding examples from the book to support the theme. Plotting the story. Choosing your favorite character and doing an in-depth character analysis. doing a persuasive writing book review, doing a book and movie comparison because this book does in fact have a movie. And then another thing that I've added to all of our novel studies are book and movie discussion questions. So these go into a little bit more about the film adaptation. The book versus the movie. Not just did you like one better, but actual like how did the music or acting affect the tone of the film? Did the movie make Royy's internal conflict fighting in finding courage as fitting as the book did? So, it's more uh open-ended, in-depth discussion questions that you can ask your child about the book and the movie. And then we have some figurative language. So, this goes over the different types of figurative language. And then there are a few different activities. You're going to do a scavenger hunt to find your own figurative language within the book. And then there is a hands-on activity. So, the hands-on activity has all of these different cards. And you would lay them out. So you have irony and anamanopia, personification, hyperbole. So you would lay these out and then there are 20 different examples from the book. For example, Beatatric's gaze was as sharp as attack. That would be a simile. Um, she spilled the beans about the construction site. So you're going to just sort these and there is an answer key as well. Then there are some final project suggestions once you have finished the book. There are some ideas for how you could do a final project and then an answer key for the vocabulary and comprehension. So you don't have to have read the book in case you just want to assign this to your child to know the answers. [Music]