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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for The Hundred Dresses

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Use The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

Peggy, Maddie, and Wanda are classmates who come from different worlds. Peggy is privileged, Maddie wears Peggy's redesigned" dresses, and Wanda lives with her father and brother on the wrong side of town. This Newberry Honor book uses the interactions of these three characters to spin a classic tale about the importance of treating others with kindness. While the focus of The Hundred Dresses Book Club is analyzing characters, students will also be exposed to a valuable lesson about how to treat their peers."
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Instructional Overview

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Instructional Overview

The instructional overview includes instructional background for characterization, a list of instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to The Hundred Dresses Book Club.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.3.3SL.3.2RL.3.4SL.3.3RL.3.5W.3.8RL.3.6L.3.4aRL.3.7L.3.5bRL.3.9L.3.6RL.3.10RF.3.3RF.3.4RL.3.1SL.3.1cRL.3.2SL.3.1d
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.7C3.9C3.6B3.10D3.7D3.9D(i)3.6C3.10E3.7E3.9D(ii)3.6D3.10F3.7F3.9D(iii)3.6E3.10G3.7G3.9E(i)3.6F3.13A3.8A3.9E(ii)3.6G3.13C3.8B3.1A3.9E(iii)3.6H3.13E3.8C3.1C3.9F3.6I3.13H3.8D3.1D3.10A3.7A3.9A3.1E3.10B3.7B3.9B3.6A3.10C
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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

Author Eleanor Estes created three main characters to tell the story of The Hundred Dresses. Teaching your readers how to examine each of the characters' traits, emotions, and motivations, will help them understand the story more fully through personal connection to the characters.
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Meeting 2

Identifying character traits (how a character looks or behaves) is an ideal way to start learning about characterization. This The Hundred Dresses Book Club focuses on teaching students how to use the text to create an image of each character. Students will use a graphic organizer to help them track their thinking about the main characters.
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Meeting 3

Another way to explore characterization in The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes is to look at character emotions. Often times, characters have strong feelings in response to a major story event. Identifying these emotional reactions helps your students as readers by allowing them to connect to the character.
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Meeting 4

The final building block to exploring characterization using Eleanor Estes' The Hundred Dresses is examining character motivations. A character's traits, emotions, and story events can all be motivating factors, or influences, for a character. Readers will need to consider all of these pieces as they practice identifying motivations for each character.
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Meeting 5

During this final The Hundred Dresses Book Club meeting, students will use their work on characterization to identify ways that the main characters may have changed over the course of the story. Students will showcase their learning with an interactive culminating activity.
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Vocabulary Connections with The Hundred Dresses

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Vocabulary Connections with The Hundred Dresses

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Hundred Dresses 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.3.4aL.3.5bL.3.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.7F3.3A3.3B3.7E
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Focus Assessment and Rubric

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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 characterization.
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Running Record with The Hundred Dresses

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Running Record with The Hundred Dresses

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Hundred Dresses. 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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Management Resources - Spanish

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: The Hundred Dresses
Author: Eleanor Estes
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Social Awareness, Award Winners, Decision Making, Bullying, Self Awareness, Self Management
ISBN: 9780152051709
Publisher's Summary:
Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies. Maddie, one of Wanda's classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." This powerful, timeless story has been reissued with a new letter from the author's daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin's original artwork in beautifully restored color.
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