ESL Novel Study Bundle | Simplified Text, Vocabulary, & Chapter Activities
The ESL Studio
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Grade Levels
3rd - 6th
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRL.4.1
CCSSRL.4.2
CCSSRL.4.3
CCSSRL.4.4
CCSSRL.4.10
Formats Included
- Zip
Pages
434 pages
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Description
You can read chapter books with your ELL students! These ESL novel studies include simplified chapter summaries, vocabulary lists, and scaffolded activities by chapter.
Includes the following novels:
- Charlotte's Web
- Hatchet
- Because of Winn-Dixie
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- James and the Giant Peach
Looking for another novel? Leave a comment to make a suggestion!
We don't need to hold English Learners back by reading easy texts while their peers read chapter books. They need exposure to the rich language in high-quality texts. They deserve the satisfaction of finishing a novel!
This ESL novel study includes three resources to help your ELLs understand chapter books:
- Chapter Summaries: These are simplified versions of the text (Lexile range 210-400L) with visuals. Chapter summaries can help all levels of English Learners. For beginners, you may choose to read the summaries in a small group as their primary text, and then read aloud the original book simply for pleasure and exposure. More advanced students can read the summaries first as a preface to the original text, so that they already know the basic events of the chapter and can spend their energy figuring out the unfamiliar words and phrases in the book.
- Vocabulary Lists: These are kid-friendly definitions of the words/phrases in each chapter that are likely to be unfamiliar for ELLs. The vocabulary lists also include visuals. Students can use these as a reference as they read the original text.
- Chapter Activities: These chapter response activities are scaffolded for ESL and aligned to 4th grade Common Core standards. They include ELL-friendly tasks such as drawing and labeling, finding sentences in the text, writing lists, and writing with sentence frames.
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Total Pages
434 pages
Answer Key
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Teaching Duration
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.4.1
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSSRL.4.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
CCSSRL.4.3
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
CCSSRL.4.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
CCSSRL.4.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
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