The Invisible Boy

 

The Invisible Boy

Day One: Activating Prior Knowledge, Building Knowledge (making connections, oral language focus)

• Define: "invisible"
• potential connections (boys wants to be invisible, boy feels invisible, boy likes to be invisible)

Day Two: Five Finger Retell

Day Three: Vocabulary Development

• invisible
• cafeteria
• greedy
• photography
• swallow

Day Four: Higher Order Questioning (asking, discussing, reflecting - between the line questions)

• Why does Brian think he is invisible?
• What do you think is worse, being laughed at or feeling invisible?
• How did Justin help Brian feel less invisible?

Extensions for Learning Centres or Opportunities to Engage with Writing:

• Conversation table: if we had a new friend join us how can we make them feel not invisible?
• Math: what is a more fair way to make teams or groups?
• Art: pick a feeling card and draw yourself showing that emotion