Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Book Resources
Inkheart: A Flashlight Readers Activity
Fans of the popular book by Cornelia Funke will love these fun, visually appealing online activities that bring the story to life.
- Grades: 3–5, 6–8
Ever read a book and wanted more? “Explore Inkheart,” an online literary experience from Flashlight Readers, lets fans of the Cornelia Funke book go inside their favorite read.
Students can:
- Take the Inkheart Quiz to find out which character is most like them
- Communicate with other Flashlight members on Scholastic’s Flash Board
- Speak Your Mind by writing an editorial with help from this step-by-step workshop
- Step Into Character, where they answer a series of questions as if they were a certain character
- Peek into author Cornelia Funke’s Writing Room with this slideshow
- Meet the Author by reading this brief bio of her
- Discover Inkheart by reading a sample character
- Get recommendations for More Best Books that fans of Inkheart will love
Learning Objectives
While participating in “Flashlight Readers,” students will:
- Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to text
- Identify and discuss book themes, characters, plots, and settings
- Connect their experiences with those of the author and/or with characters from the books
- Support predictions, interpretations, conclusions, etc. with examples from text
- Practice key reading skills and strategies (cause-and-effect, problem/solution, compare-and-contrast, summarizing, etc.)
- Monitor their own comprehension
Benchmarks for Inkheart Flashlight Readers Lesson Plans
Language Arts (McRel)
Lesson 1: It's Your Opinion Lesson Plan
- Prewriting: uses prewriting strategies to plan written work (e.g., uses graphic organizers, story maps, and webs; groups related ideas; takes notes; brainstorms ideas; organizes information according to type and purpose of writing)
- Evaluates own and others' writing (e.g., determines the best features of a piece of writing, determines how own writing achieves its purposes, asks for feedback, responds to classmates' writing)
- Uses strategies (e.g., adapts focus, organization, point of view; determines knowledge and interests of audience) to write for different audiences (e.g., self, peers, teachers, adults)
Lesson 2: Building Believable Characters Lesson Plan
- Uses descriptive language that clarifies and enhances ideas (e.g., establishes tone and mood, uses figurative language, uses sensory images and comparisons, uses a thesaurus to choose effective wording)
- Uses appropriate verbal and nonverbal techniques for oral presentations (e.g., inflection/modulation of voice, tempo, word choice, grammar, feeling, expression, tone, volume, enunciation, physical gestures, body movement, eye contact, posture)
- Understands elements of character development (e.g., character traits and motivations; stereotypes; relationships between character and plot development; development of characters through their words, speech patterns, thoughts, actions, narrator's description, and interaction with other characters; how motivations are revealed)
Lesson 3: Getting Ready to Write Lesson Plan
- Uses a variety of resource materials to gather information for research topics (e.g., magazines, newspapers, dictionaries, schedules, journals, phone directories, globes, atlases, almanacs, technological sources)
- Organizes information and ideas from multiple sources in systematic ways (e.g., timelines, outlines, notes, graphic representations)
- Prewriting: uses a variety of prewriting strategies (e.g., makes outlines, uses published pieces as writing models, constructs critical standards, brainstorms, builds background knowledge)
Related Resources
Focuses on Cornelia Flunke's Inkheart and taps into students' critical reading, thinking, and expressive writing skills.
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- Subjects:Literature, Reading Comprehension, Writing
- Skills:Writing
