Teaching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: While Harry Potter is written in a fairly straightforward style, there are bound to be some words that students don't immediately recognize. The objective of his lesson is to promote student reading comprehension.

1) 1. Open a discussion: Ask students to select a word from the previous night's reading that they didn't immediately understand. How did the student come to understand the meaning of that word?...
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