Amos Fortune, Free Man Activities

Yesterday, I met with a teacher who was having a difficult time helping her fifth-grade students write about one of the books they were reading in class. The problem was the students didn’t really understand how to ask the right kinds of questions about the book they were reading. They could retell the story and most of the plot, but they couldn’t delve any deeper into the story. The teacher asked them questions in a class discussion but needed something to help them write answers to questions that related specifically to Amos Fortune, Free Man, the book they were reading. I gave the students an interactive writing activity on the computer.


There is an on-screen guide which explains the concept of answering questions and provides a series of question related to the chapters of the book. The activity inserted forms right into their document to better structure their thinking and writing. There were drawings they could easily insert into their writing document to illustrate what they wrote. And all of this involved only a few screens, which helped the students without overwhelming them. Now they were ready to take a personal view.

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