Solar Eclipse 2024 | Article + Discussion Cards + Roll a Story Activities Bundle

Solar Eclipse 2024 | Article + Discussion Cards + Roll a Story Activities Bundle: Help your AVID or ELA students build writing skill and reading comprehension skills as they practice using text evidence through Solar Eclipse activities!

What's Included

• Roll a Story Creative Narrative Writing Activity
• Article and Reading Comprehension Discussion Cards

Roll a Story Creative Narrative Writing Activity

What's Included

• A PowerPoint with 1 unique board
• 1 editable Roll a Story Board
• A QR code on the story board that leads to digital dice (so no dice needed, just devices!)
• Vocabulary page
• Writing page

Story Elements

• Setting (examples: an alien invasion, a time machine, cosmic space cruise)

• Protagonists (examples: an alien translator, a lost astronaut, a charming space robot)

• Conflict (examples: is captured by, is hypnotized by, is tricked by)

• Antagonists (examples: a nervous space pirate, a chatty alien, a talking space cat)

• Space Elements (examples: magic star dust, solar eclipse glasses that show the future, a newly discovered planet)

Article and Reading Comprehension Discussion Cards

What's Included

• Google Doc with a solar eclipse article
• Google slide with printable talking chips
• 20 Discussion Prompts in color and black & white
• Editable Discussion Prompt Cards in color and black & white

Directions

• Access your forced copy of the Google Doc with the article on solar eclipses. Allow students to read, take notes in the margin, and summarize the article by answering the essential question at the top.

• Go to the last slide to add your own discussion prompts.

• Click "File" then "Download" and then "PDF" to download the prompts as a PDF document.

• Print, cut, and laminate a set of cards for each of your groups of 4-5 students.

• Print, cut, and laminate talking chips.

• Put students into groups of 4-5.

• Decide how many talking chips each student gets (this encourages participation during the dialogue and teaches students how to use social cues when deciding when to share, instead of raising a hand).

• One student draws a card from the top. That student asks the question and dialogue begins in the group. Students should have the short story handy so they can use evidence in their responses.

• When dialogue dies down, students continue taking turns drawing a card, asking questions. and having discussions.

• Students should discard the questions already asked so they don't repeat any.

Easter Roll a Story

Spring Roll a Story

Summer Roll a Story

ELA Resources

AVID Resources

Writing Resources

Reading Resources