Draw what the students understand from the reading: characters, setting, plot. This is also called one-pagers by Fletcher (2019)

Allow students to use Rewordify app to understand difficult words.

Literature Circles: Students in group reading a lower level book, read aloud to each other, and do guided reading with the teacher.

For students who struggle in understanding the setting: draw the setting.

Literary Circles: Students are divided into 2 smaller groups. They read the same grade-level book.

For students who are struggling in understanding the characters: role play activity

Give options in reading the book: read to self, read to a friend, or read in a group. Reading aloud is proven to be beneficial for students. (Short, 2019; Nordquist, 2019)

Check the story map or the worksheet and have interview assessment with each student.

Guided practice worksheets in the Literature circle group.

Guided analysis of the book by the teacher/teacher assistant/reading specialist in the Literature Circle Group. Use simple worksheet for each topic taught, for example: Who is the character worksheet.

Break down the activities into one topic at a time: Character, setting, plot

Use visuals (colorful pictures) to explain about characters, settings, and plot. For example:

Interview assessment (University of Wyoming Lab School, 2018) of their drawing or simple worksheets.

Simple worksheets to analyze one topic at a time; for example: Who Is a Character? (Retrieved from: k12readers website )

During Literature circles time, pair the student with an advanced reader in Green group. The advanced reader read aloud to the student.

For students who struggle in understanding plot: create a story map activity.

Read-Pair-Share: Students read the same section of the book, Pair up with a partner to talk about the elements of the story and then share with the whole literary circle group.

Independent worksheet: Story Element Helpers (Students can draw or write)

Observe students role play and then do interview assessment.

Literature Circles: Independent reading. Students may read on-grade level book or upper level book. The book choice can be from the teacher or a choice of the group.

Write a summary of the reading.

Partner up with a student in red group and read aloud to that student.

Peer tutoring a student in the red group

Write your own story with clear characters, settings, and plots. Read it aloud to a partner in the red group. Give a quiz to the partner and check if their answers are correct

Note: Green (advanced readers), Yellow (on level readers), Red (struggling readers)

Observe the students when they partner up with the red group students

Read the story they write

Interview assessment with each student

Story Elements Form of the book they read or the one they write.

Use Book Creator program to write a story.