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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Because of Winn-Dixie

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Use Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

Treat your students to this modern classic about a ten-year-old girl, her big-hearted dog, and a town full of people looking for friendship. DiCamillo's sophisticated characters and heart-warming story set the perfect stage for deep conversations about the ways in which authors develop characters.

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Meeting 1

Students will use a Character Map to keep track of the richly developed characters in Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo.

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Meeting 2

Dive deeper into direct and indirect characterization using Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. Students will continue to build their Character Maps with evidence from the text.

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Meeting 3

This Because of Winn-Dixie Book Club meeting focuses on identifying how the author develops a character using dialogue. By focusing on how a character speaks or thinks, the reader can make inferences about the character's personality.

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Meeting 4

Another way that Kate DiCamillo develops the characters in Because of Winn-Dixie is through relationships between characters. When students examine how a character interacts with other characters, they can more fully identify the character's traits.

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Meeting 5

Using their Character Maps as evidence from the text, students will discuss how characters have changed throughout Because of Winn-Dixie. Examining how characters change allows the reader to more fully understand the story's characters.

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Meeting 6

Author Kate DiCamillo has created characters in Because of Winn-Dixie that are easy to connect to. In this final Book Club meeting, students will practice making text-to-self connections with characters from the story and look at how these connections increase their enjoyment of the text.

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Focus Assessment and Rubric

Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with a character traits.

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Comprehension Assessment with Because of Winn-Dixie

This 9 question Common Core aligned assessment can be used to determine students' overall comprehension of Because of Winn-Dixie and their mastery of the Common Core State Standards.

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Running Record with Because of Winn-Dixie

Use this "done for you" Running Record to assess oral reading fluency of Because of Winn-Dixie. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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About the Book

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Title: Because of Winn-Dixie

Author: Kate DiCamillo

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Themes: Family, Friendship, Laugh Out Loud, Award Winners, Bullying

ISBN: 9780763649456

Publisher's Summary:

One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis.

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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Because of Winn-Dixie