By: Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick Press 2002
Lexile: 610
DiCamillo, K. (2002). Because of Winn-Dixie. Cambridge : Candlewick Press.
A ten year old girl finds the best in everyone. The real meaning of friendship, love, Don’t judge a book by its cover, Hardship, Sorrow, religious, understanding, misunderstanding
A ten year old girl, named Opal moves to a new town. At first she does not know anyone, but meets some friends for life. Opal learns that one should never judge someone for their past or what they look like. Everyone has a hard time but the most important part is what you learn from it.
Suggested Delivery:
Read Aloud
Electronic Resources:
Read Aloud
Electronic Resources:
This is an interactive quiz. This will be good to quiz the students of their understanding of the text after they read it. It is graded and completed on the computer. This will be used after students read the book.
Create a Voki
Students can create a talking avatar to represent a character from the book. They can pick from Opal, Otis, Preacher, or Glory to create as a person. They can find quotes from the book and create their own lines that they believe the character would say and make the voki say them.
Create a Voki
Students can create a talking avatar to represent a character from the book. They can pick from Opal, Otis, Preacher, or Glory to create as a person. They can find quotes from the book and create their own lines that they believe the character would say and make the voki say them.
Key Vocabulary:
This vocabulary should be taught before reading the book.
Preacher
Naomi, Florida
Missionary
Sermon
Distracted
Suffering
Skidding
Applaud
Terrorized
Criminal
Reading Strategy:
A small group of heteregenous group people will write a story using five vocabulary words from the selected text list.This will be done before they read this book in order to help enhance their knowledge of the vocabulary words after they were reviewed.
While reading this book, have the students pick a chacracter and work together in pairs to come up with a script for the character in a certain part of the story. Have the children act out what they believe the character was doing in that part of that book as well as the characters emotions. This will help the students really visualize what is happening in the text.
Writing Activity that demonstrates Inferential Comprehension:
Write a journal entry in how you think Winn-Dixie changed Opal's life or another character in the book.
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