Explore Course – Best Friends Playbook

Lower Middle Grade students (ages 9-12, grades 4-6) will engage through video instruction, story interviews, and ‘paper and pencil’ assignments to work a fun exploration of the middle grade novel Best Friends Playbook by A.W. Downer. This course is divided into 4 sections of study, and can take about 4 weeks to complete. Three sections include Questioning the Story Interviews and a character arc study. The last section includes an enrichment project the student chooses, and final fun with the author. All work is geared to helping kids explore the book on a fun level while incorporating student choice. 9 videos are part of this course, including 2 from the author.

Estimated Time: 4 week novel explore unit

Course Instructor

Kiri Jorgensen Kiri Jorgensen Author

Kiri Jorgensen is a long time teacher, curriculum creator, writer, editor, and publisher at Chicken Scratch Books. Her passion is middle grade novels, and she loves helping kids discover the wonder of strong literature.

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A.W. Downer and Best Friends Playbook

Book Section 1: Chapters 1-12, pages 1-66

Book Section 2: Chapters 13-23, pages 67-135

Book Section 3: Chapters 24-35, pages 136-199

Final Exploration of Best Friends Playbook

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