Tom Sawyer Activities

A few days ago, I was working with a young teacher who was having a difficult time helping his fourth-grade students write about one of the books they were reading in class. The problem was the students didn’t really understand how to write about character. A character may be static or dynamic. A static character does not change from the beginning of the book to the end, while dynamic character changes in some way during the course of the work. This change may be a positive one or negative one. To help solve this problem of writing about The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, I gave the students an interactive writing activity on the computer.


This interactive activity is designed to assist students in understanding certain important concepts about character by having them imagine what it would be like to be Tom Sawyer. There is an on-screen guide which walks them through imaging they are Tom step-by-step. 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.

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