**This is the chapter slice "Understanding Gr. 5-6" from the full lesson plan "Reading Response Forms"** Give your early middle school students the tools to demonstrate their understanding and to share their thinking about the literature that they have read. Our flexible and open-ended resource can be used in conjunction with all varieties of literature. Increase your vocabulary with antonyms and synonyms to words you remember from the text. Demonstrate your understanding of the novel with a plot chart. Apply what you know by writing a detailed letter to a character from the book. Write your own ending based on your analysis of the novel. Find quotes from the characters and evaluate why each one was important. Be creative and rewrite a part of the story from a different point of view. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible and hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

**This is the chapter slice "Analysing Gr. 3-4" from the full lesson plan "Reading Response Forms"** Let your young readers share their thoughts about the literacy that they have heard or read themselves. Our valuable and easy-to-use resource provides a wide variety of skill-based worksheets and purposeful hands-on activities that are all based on the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Use to supplement your present reading program or as independent student work. Our worksheet activities will help to engage and build the full range of thinking skills essential for reading comprehension and focus on many other skills including: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Also included is a teacher implementation guide, student assessment rubrics, word puzzles, color graphic organizers and a comprehension quiz. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

**This is the chapter slice "Evaluating Gr. 5-6" from the full lesson plan "Reading Response Forms"** Give your early middle school students the tools to demonstrate their understanding and to share their thinking about the literature that they have read. Our flexible and open-ended resource can be used in conjunction with all varieties of literature. Increase your vocabulary with antonyms and synonyms to words you remember from the text. Demonstrate your understanding of the novel with a plot chart. Apply what you know by writing a detailed letter to a character from the book. Write your own ending based on your analysis of the novel. Find quotes from the characters and evaluate why each one was important. Be creative and rewrite a part of the story from a different point of view. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible and hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Strangers become a community in this heartwarming story about overcoming prejudices and finding a common ground. The vocabulary lists and quizzes create a complete resource that saves time while preparing these lessons. Students make predictions on how certain characters might be connected to each other. Analyze Leona's comments about her experience dealing with officials to characterize her feelings towards them. Answer multiple choice questions about Virgil's relationship with his father. Students explore Sae Young's actions when the thunderstorm fills the rain collection barrels and relates this back to the themes of the book. Imagine being Virgil's father and create a business plan for the baby lettuce idea. Detail how the setting of the book evolves with the characters in a transformation graphic organizer. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: Seedfolks follows the intertwining stories of several neighbors as they break down barriers and form a community. A vacant lot in Cleveland, Ohio is not the perfect spot for Kim to plant her lima beans. It's too cold and there's not very much sun. She does this anyways in honor of her father. Little does she know that this action will intrigue the neighbors she knows only as strangers, and cause a ripple effect throughout the neighborhood. Each chapter follows a different neighbor and their personal journey that brought them to this vacant lot. People of varying ages, genders, races and religions come together with a shared goal of growing their item of choice. Some want to start a business, while others want to win back a lost love. The garden blooms from a segregated group of individual plots into a real community as peoples' guards are lowered and they begin to really know one another. When the season ends, only time will tell whether this new community will thrive.