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Wishtree Book Club by Katherine Applegate: Teacher/Parent Packet + Student Packet with Plans, Discussion Questions, Answer Keys & Reader's Theatre
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Red is an oak tree more than two hundred years old, and the whole neighborhood calls it the “wishtree”: every year on the first day of May, people tie their wishes on its branches.
When Samar, a quiet girl whose Muslim family has just moved in next door, wishes for a friend, and someone carves the word LEAVE into Red’s trunk, the tree decides to break the biggest rule of all. Katherine Applegate’s gentle, hopeful story is about welcoming newcomers, standing up to prejudice, friendship, and kindness.
This is my Wishtree BOOK CLUB edition, and it is everything you need to run a book club, whether you lead a classroom group, a homeschool co-op, or a club at your kitchen table. It comes as TWO packets: a Teacher/Parent Packet (54 pages) and a Student Packet (43 pages).
Leave the hard work to me! Start every meeting with the discussion questions, and watch your kiddos fall in love with this book.
Teacher/Parent Packet:
⭐ Ready-to-go plans for a 4-week club, plus 3-session and 2-session versions (55-minute meetings)
⭐ Discussion questions for every chapter group (with “listen for” notes)
⭐ Name That Character game (14 clue cards with answers)
⭐ Every answer key: question sets, character analysis, story order, literary devices, Connections, word search, crossword, quiz, and test
⭐ Reader’s Theatre teacher notes and directions
⭐ A printable Book Club Certificate of Completion
Student Packet:
⭐ Coloring-page cover and welcome page
⭐ 10 question sets (Chapters 1-8 through 48-51), 9 questions each, with a word bank on every page
⭐ Character analysis of Red: character sketch, character traits, trait + text evidence, and an essay outline
⭐ Story order, 5 literary devices (direct quotes from the book), and prediction writing
⭐ Connections game (2 levels), word search, and crossword
⭐ Mid-book quiz (Chapters 1-21) and end-of-book test
⭐ Your 30-Second Book Review planning page
⭐ Reader’s Theatre script “Meet Red” (Chapters 1-9), 16 flexible parts, with a “Who Said It?” page
Perfect for grades 3-5.
Content note: A teenage boy carves the word LEAVE into the tree as a threat aimed at Samar’s family. Earlier, someone throws raw eggs at the family’s house, men in a passing car yell at them to get out, and some children tease Samar; eggs are also thrown at the tree on Wishing Day. The boy is never caught, and the neighborhood answers with kindness. In the tree’s story from 1848, a young immigrant’s brother dies of illness on the voyage, a baby is left in the tree’s hollow with a note, and some neighbors tell the girl and the baby to leave. The tree faces being cut down and speaks calmly about dying. There are a few mild words and bird-poop jokes. Common Sense Media rates the book for age 8 and up. Please preview.
Created by Kim Baust, “The Literature Lady,” founder of YSA Homeroom by The Young Scholar Academy (online).
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✓ novel study
✓ no prep
✓ reader's theatre
✓ book club
✓ discussion questions
✓ readers theater
✓ Teacher/Parent Packet (54 pages): Ready-to-go plans for a 4-week club, plus 3-session and 2-session versions (55-minute
✓ Name That Character game (14 clue cards with answers), Reader’s Theatre teacher notes and directions, and a printable Bo
✓ Every answer key: question sets, character analysis, story order, literary devices, Connections, word search, crossword,
✓ Student Packet (43 pages): Coloring-page cover and welcome page, and 10 question sets (Chapters 1-8 through 48-51), 9 qu
✓ Character analysis of Red: character sketch, character traits, trait + text evidence, and an essay outline, plus Story o
✓ Connections game (2 levels), word search, and crossword, Mid-book quiz (Chapters 1-21) and end-of-book test, Your 30-Sec
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Hi, I’m Kim! I’m an educator with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Elementary Education and more than 30 years of classroom experience.
I started The Literature Lady because I wanted to make reading come alive for students—and make lesson planning a lot easier for teachers. I create resources that were way too time-consuming to create while teaching full-time, so that now you don’t have to! My passion is creating engaging, low-prep resources, such as novel studies, Word Noodle vocabulary games, and reader’s theatre scripts, that help kids fall in love with books while building real skills.
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