Home of the Brave Novel Study Reader Response Questions and Graphic Organizers

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This reader response product is a supplemental resource for the novel “Home of the Brave” by Katherine Applegate. Printable PDF and Google Slides (digital) versions are included! As teachers, we want our students to engage with text in meaningful and purposeful ways, but we also need them to read independently to build up stamina.

The reader response questions lend themselves to in-depth class or peer discussions. They require students to provide textual evidence to support their responses and/or express their opinions or perspectives. The graphic organizers provided in this product can be utilized in a variety of ways to differentiate based on your student’s academic abilities and needs.

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• Home of the Brave Reader Response: Questions and Graphic Organizers
• Home of the Brave Word Study: Vocabulary & Figurative Language
• Home of the Brave Quizzes & Writing Prompts
• Home of the Brave Extension Activities: Theme, Symbolism, Quote Analysis & More

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This resource includes:

Printable PDF and Google Slides (digital) versions are included!

• Agree or Disagree? (1 page) – Before reading the book, students will agree or disagree with statements that connect to the novel.
• Judging by the Cover (2 pages) – Before reading the novel, students will examine the cover of the book and answer the related questions. Includes two different covers of the book.
• Pre-Reading Focus Questions (1 page) – Students respond to these questions before beginning the novel.
• Reader Response Questions (19 pages) – Students will answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions to respond to the text. Included are questions for each poem in the novel.(ANSWER KEY included).
• Making Predictions Graphic Organizer (5 pages) – Before reading the book, students will examine the front cover and describe what they see, make predictions about what the book is about, and the questions they think the book might answer. Choose to assign 1 page that covers each part of the book OR separate sheets for each part.
• Cause & Effect Graphic Organizers (5 pages) – Students will identify cause and effect relationships in the novel. Choose to assign 1 page that covers each part of the book OR separate sheets for each part.
• Making Inferences (5 pages) – Students use clues and schema to come up with two inferences they made from the text. Choose to assign 1 page that covers each part of the book OR separate sheets for each part.
• Summarizing (5 pages) – Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of each part or the whole story. Choose to assign 1 page that covers each part of the book OR separate sheets for each part.
• Making Connections (1 page) – Students make connections to an event from the story.
• Problem & Solution (1 page) – Students identify the problem & solution in the story.
• Chain of Events (1 page) – Students will show how one event led to another in the story.
• Story Plot (1 page) – Students organize the events of the story on the graphic organizer.
• Character Analysis (1 page) – Students choose four important character traits that describe the main character and provide evidence from the text to support their choices. Then, they describe how the character changed and developed throughout the story, state their opinion regarding which event impacted the character the most, and support their thinking with evidence from the text.
• Character Inside & Out (1 page) – Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
• Sensory Details (1 page) – Students choose an event from the story and describe it from the character’s perspective using all five senses.
• Book Review (1 page) – Students rate how much they enjoyed the book, draw a new cover, and explain why kids should or should not read it.

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