An Awfully Big Adventure | Activities :&: Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Character Guessing Game

For this game the teacher will need a list of the characters from the book. Two students will compete at a time at the front of the room. Have the student say a name of one of the characters in the story. The students need to race to say the name of the character that is closest in the book to one that was named. The student answers first gets to stay at the front...
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