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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for The Lightning Thief

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Use The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

The Lightning Thief takes readers on an exciting, action-filled adventure while imparting life lessons. Mythology is expertly blended with modern middle-school culture in a fantasy filled with horrifying monsters and intimidating Greek gods. As Percy, Annabeth, and Grover face numerous challenges, they each learn life lessons. The intriguing storyline provides readers practice determining themes and analyzing their development, as well as an opportunity to summarize with key details.
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Instructional Overview

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Instructional Overview

The instructional overview includes instructional background for determining theme, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to The Lightning Thief Book Club.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.6.5L.6.4aRL.6.6L.6.5RL.6.7RL.6.9RL.6.10W.6.8W.6.9RL.6.1SL.6.1aRL.6.2SL.6.1bRL.6.3SL.6.1cRL.6.4L.6.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 6.96.26A6.276.3A6.286.3B6.3C6.46.6A6.6B6.6C6.8
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Management Resources

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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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Meeting 1

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan pairs well with a Book Club focused on determining theme. Throughout this Book Club, students will explore how the author includes lessons, not only for the characters, but also for the reader.
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Meeting 2

Author Rick Riordan leaves a trail of clues in The Lightning Thief for the reader to use in helping to identify the theme. Student discussion focuses on how to find these clues while reading.
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Meeting 3

Identifying a topic that is presented in The Lightning Thief is one step towards determining the book's theme. In this Book Club meeting, students will look for broad ideas on which the story is built.
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Meeting 4

The Lightning Thief contains symbols that careful readers will be able to use to help identify the book's theme. Students will create a T chart of symbols and meanings to use while reading independently.
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Meeting 5

Making inferences is another step towards identifying the theme. Combining the student's background knowledge with the clues author Rick Riordan included in The Lightning Thief will allow students to make logical inferences related to the text.
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Meeting 6

This The Lightning Thief Book Club examines how the development of the plot can help the reader determine the theme. Using a Plot Diagram, students will track the plot of the story.
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Meeting 7

Building on the last meeting, the students will discover how looking at Rick Riordan's characters' responses to conflict will help them identify the theme in The Lightning Thief. Many of the clues the author builds into the story are related to character words and actions.
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Meeting 8

Using a summary framework, students will practice summarizing what has happened so far in The Lightning Thief. When the reader is able to condense the text down to a few sentences, information about the theme surfaces.
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Meeting 9

Now that reading the text is complete, students are ready to discuss the lessons that have been learned by the characters in The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Adding the lessons learned by the characters to their background knowledge will help students determine the theme.
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Vocabulary Connections with The Lightning Thief

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Vocabulary Connections with The Lightning Thief

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Lightning Thief 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.6.6L.6.4aL.6.5
TEKS Alignment
  • 6.2B6.2A6.2C
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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 determining theme.
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Running Record with The Lightning Thief

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Running Record with The Lightning Thief

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Lightning Thief. 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 Lightning Thief
Author: Rick Riordan
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Adventure
ISBN: 9780141924403
Publisher's Summary:
Half boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. Now I spend my time battling monsters and generally trying to stay alive. This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea.
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