Ella Enchanted Novel Study

This Ella Enchanted Novel Study Unit for the book by Gail Carson Levine includes comprehension questions, vocabulary activities, and a literature guide to help coordinate your book study without extra work for you! Thought-provoking questions are great for generating written responses to literature, and the differentiated formats allow you to target student needs and reduce overwhelm.

Foldable novel study trifolds & journal prompts are provided for Ella Enchanted and are aligned with Common Core Standards and TEKS to build essential reading comprehension in a book club format that can be done with your whole class, in small groups, or as an individual book study.

Designed as a 3-week book study, your students will be deeply engaged with Ella and her struggle to overcome a curse throughout the book with each day's purposefully matched activity. Running book clubs in your classroom has never been easier!

Your download includes:

✔Daily comprehension prompts in 2 formats for differentiation

• Foldable trifold brochures
• Cut & paste journal prompts for interactive notebooks

✔ Weekly word of the day flip books for text-based vocabulary

✔ Easy-to-follow directions for printing & prep

✔ Instructional planning guide

✔ Answer keys

In this Ella Enchanted Novel Study you'll find:

1) Student comprehension practice (up to 15 instructional days)

• Each day's work focuses on a single standards-based comprehension skill
• Short, written responses include opportunities to apply thinking to text
• Designed with reluctant and struggling learners in mind
• Built-in graphic organizers to support skill acquisition
• Approachable questions help make connections & start conversations
• No boring multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions!
• Available in both printable trifolds and pasteable journal prompts

2) Approachable practice with key reading standards and skills including:

• Generating main ideas and a summary of key events
• Text analysis and responding to literature
• Exploring character traits & development through events of the plot
• Making inferences and drawing conclusions based on text clues
• Utilizing context clues to establish meaning
• Analyzing point of view & its impact on the reader.
• And so much more!

3) Text-based & academic vocabulary

• One target word identified for each day's reading
• Includes opportunity to generate a personal definition and use the word in context
• Fosters connections between vocabulary knowledge through synonyms and antonyms
• Opportunities to make connections to academic vocabulary for daily skills

4) Teacher support materials

• Unit scope & sequence lay out the day's comprehension & vocabulary focus
• Answer Keys for all comprehension activities
• Tips for preparation and implementation