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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Hoot

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Use Hoot by Carl Hiaasen to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

Roy is once again the new kid in school". He is having a hard time adjusting, mostly due to being picked on by the school bully. On the way to school, he becomes intrigued by a mysterious boy running away from the bus. This chance sighting begins a series of events that includes making new friends, becoming devoted to a cause, and learning important life lessons. With two intertwining plots and a variety of interesting characters, this Newbery Honor Book is an ideal text for a Book Club focused on story elements."

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Meeting 1

In this first Book Club meeting, students will identify the parts of plot using a plot diagram. This meeting also introduces a graphic organizer for students to use while independently reading Hoot to track important story events and how they impact the main character.

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Meeting 2

Author Carl Hiaasen introduces two main conflicts early in the story. This Book Club meeting will teach students how to identify and analyze those conflicts using a chart to help them keep track of their thinking.

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Meeting 3

When reviewing the critical events of Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, students will learn the importance of looking at a variety of pieces of information. This Book Club meeting explores how to look at important story events.

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Meeting 4

This Book Club meeting looks at an event through multiple characters' perspectives to better understand the story. Students will use a pivotal event in Hoot to create a detailed plot diagram from different characters' perspectives.

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Meeting 5

Author Carl Hiaasen uses characters to move the story along. This Book Club meeting focuses on using a graphic organizer to track how characters change as a result of events in the story.

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Meeting 6

Looking at how characters respond to the climax event of Hoot by Carl Hiaasen helps students draw conclusions about the story. In this Book Club discussion, students will identify how characters respond the story's climax event.

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Meeting 7

This final Book Club meeting examines how author Carl Hiaasen brings Hoot to resolution. As a final activity, students are encouraged to creatively represent the five most important story events on a timeline.

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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 story elements.

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Comprehension Assessment with Hoot

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

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Running Record with Hoot

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Hoot. 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

Title: Hoot

Author: Carl Hiaasen

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Themes: Award Winners, Bullying, Self Awareness, Family, Self Management, Friendship, Laugh Out Loud

ISBN: 9781529035810

Publisher's Summary:

Roy Eberhardt never wanted to move to Florida. In his opinion, Disney World is an armpit. Roy’s family moves around a lot so he’s used to the new-kid drill – he's also used to bullies like Dana Matherson. And anyway, it’s because of Dana that Roy gets to see the mysterious running boy who runs away from the school bus and who has no books, no backpack and, most bizarrely, no shoes. Sensing a mystery, Roy starts to trail the mystery runner – a chase that will introduce him to many weird Floridian creatures: potty-trained alligators, cute burrowing owls, a fake-fart champion, a shoeless eco-warrior, a sinister pancake PR man, new friends and some snakes with sparkly tails. As the plot thickens, Roy and his friends realise it's up to them to save the endangered owls from the evil Mother Paula's pancake company who are planning to build a new restaurant on their home . . .

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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Hoot