| Why not change the format of your | | | | may be kept constant. The competition among |
| comprehension questioning in your reading | | | | the children in each house will further |
| lesson plans for each Harry Potter novel? | | | | increase their desire to read effectively so |
| This will in fact work with any novel | | | | they can help their teams. Children with more |
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| submit a trivia question about what they have | | | | who may be struggling, thus offering some |
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| strategically add his/her own questions, | | | | enjoy reading and to comprehend the written |
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| new words learned from that chapter. Trivia | | | | Cyber-Prof: Teacher Resource Site an |
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| passages that have been read.After all the | | | | Free stuff for teachers, teaching strategies, |
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| class into the 4 Hogwarts house teams: | | | | school, classroom technology and home school |
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| Slytherin. These four teams can be changed | | | | copyrighted. It may be reproduced only if the |
| from time to time for each new book or they | | | | hyperlinks here are left intact. |