Teaches
to Many Standards Simultaneously
 The Book Club Game is aligned with
the California State Standards for Reading/Language Arts. These
standards for reading, writing,
listening and speaking are the gateway skills for success in
education, careers, and for full participation in our society. It
is with
student mastery of these standards at each grade level that California
schools
will be on par with those in the best educational systems in
other states and nations.
The Book Club Game meets many of the standards simultaneously
so that teachers can feel good about using this tool and its
extension
activities on a regular basis. Some of the standards that the
game meets across grade levels K-6 include: locating the title,
author,
illustrator; making predictions; connecting to life experiences;
retelling stories; asking and answering questions about essential
elements; distinguishing fantasy from real; identifying characters
and settings; following one and two step directions; sharing
ideas and information orally; identifying sequence; responding
to who,
what, when, where, and how questions; relating prior knowledge
to text; identifying the story’s middle, beginning and end; restating
the facts and details; identifying, comparing and contrasting plots,
settings, characters, and themes; recollecting, talking and writing
about books read during the school year; retelling stories using
basic story grammar relating to the sequence; relating an important
life event or personal experience in a simple sequence; providing
descriptions with careful attention to sensory detail; extracting
problems and solutions; summarizing; relating ideas, observations,
recollections; identifying the main problem or conflict; understanding
that theme refers to the moral or lesson of the story and recognizing
theme; asking original questions; clarifying and supporting spoken
ideas with examples; articulating an understanding of several ideas
or images within the text; reading a wide variety of significant
works of children’s literature; generating alternative endings
to plots; comparing and contrasting different versions of stories;
listening critically and responding to oral communication; paraphrasing
information that has been shared orally by others; giving and following
three and four-step directions; describing story elements (character,
plot, and setting).
To see how the strategies and activities of the game and extension
booklet support these standards as well as many others please
click here to access the Acrobat PDF file on “Second
Grade: The Strategies of The Book Club Game and Extension Activities
That
are Aligned
with The Reading/Language Arts Framework For California Schools.”
For
a similar outlines on any other grade level please email a
request for the grade you would like to see to
To see
how these standards reflect national research please visit:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/nrp/findings.htm.
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