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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

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Use Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 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.

Students will quickly fall for Ulysses the super squirrel in this expertly crafted book. By tempering some sensitive themes of self-doubt and broken homes with laugh out loud unanticipated occurrences, Kate DiCamillo has created a unique chapter book that makes it easy for readers to explore cause and effect. Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures blends traditional storytelling with graphic novel illustrations, making this book the ideal choice for mini-lessons focused on tracking cause and effect across longer texts.
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Instructional Overview

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The instructional overview includes instructional background for cause and effect, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to the Flora and Ulysses Book Club.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.5.5W.5.9RL.5.6L.5.4aRL.5.7L.5.5RL.5.9L.5.6RL.5.10RF.5.3RF.5.4RL.5.1SL.5.1aRL.5.2SL.5.1bRL.5.3SL.5.1cRL.5.4W.5.8
TEKS Alignment
  • 5.6D5.10G5.7F5.9E(i)5.6E5.13A5.7G5.9E(ii)5.6F5.13C5.8A5.9E(iii)5.6G5.13E5.8B5.9F5.6H5.13H5.8C5.1C5.10A5.6I5.8D5.1A5.10B5.7A5.9A5.1D5.10C5.7B5.9B5.6A5.10D5.7C5.9D(i)5.6B5.10E5.7D5.9D(ii)5.6C5.10F5.7E5.9D(iii)
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Management Resources

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Management Resources

The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.
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Meeting 1

Recognizing and analyzing cause and effect relationships is a key skill in becoming a competent reader. Using Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo, students will gain experience with causation in literature.
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Meeting 2

During this Flora and Ulysses Book Club meeting, students will be introduced to using a Cause and Effect Flow Chart to help them identify and visualize causation as they read.
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Meeting 3

Noticing cause and effect relationships in Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo will help students better understand the text. Book Club discussion focuses on the fact that one cause can have multiple effects.
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Meeting 4

When exploring causation in Kate DiCamillo's Flora and Ulysses, it is important for readers to notice that a single effect can have multiple causes. Since the causes can be revealed as the story progresses, a graphic organizer is useful for tracking and is introduced here.
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Meeting 5

When looking for causation, good readers look for clues and ask questions. Discussion for this Flora and Ulysses Book Club meeting centers on important questions for readers to ask themselves as they read.
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Meeting 6

Building on the causation questions that were introduced in the last Flora and Ulysses Book Club meeting, students will discuss important questions to ask to identify effects while reading.
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Meeting 7

Finding causation in Kate DiCamillo's Flora and Ulysses can be tricky. Readers will learn that sometimes in the story, the cause comes before the effect, and other times the effect will come before the cause. Looking for signal words in the text will help students identify cause and effect relationships.
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Meeting 8

Author Kate DiCamillo uses examples of causation throughout Flora and Ulysses. Building on the signal words that were the topic of the last meeting, students will now sort signal words into two groups; one set for cause and one for effect.
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Meeting 9

As students look at cause and effect one last time with Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo, they will create a large graphic organizer that outlines the causes and effects of one squirrel being vacuumed up.
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Vocabulary Connections with Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

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Vocabulary Connections with Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

This set of vocabulary development resources for Flora and Ulysses highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book.  Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.5.4aL.5.5L.5.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 5.7F5.3A5.3B5.7E
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Focus Assessment and Rubric

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Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with cause and effect.
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Comprehension Assessment with Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

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Comprehension Assessment with Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

This 9 question Common Core aligned assessment can be used to determine students' overall comprehension of Flora and Ulysses and their mastery of the Common Core State Standards.
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Running Record with Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

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Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Flora and Ulysses. 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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Management Resources - Spanish

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The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.
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About the Book

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Title: Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Award Winners, Relationship Skills, Friendship, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9780763667245
Publisher's Summary:
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry — and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Kate DiCamillo comes a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an exciting new format — a novel interspersed with comic-style graphic sequences and full-page illustrations, all rendered in black-and-white by up-and-coming artist K. G. Campbell.
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