A Castle on Viola Street

Students interacted with their group partners and a realistic fiction text through this foldable.  We've studied the "essential message" during shared reading, and especially with the story A Castle on Viola Street.  On the inside of the foldable, students wrote down the character's actions that gave a clues to the story's theme.  Using these clues and their own inferences, students worked with their partner(s) to write the essential message of the story.