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If you need a copy of the book, you can find it HERE: Reading Response Questions. ... Create Wonder Portraits. Host a Book Tasting in your classroom. Beach Ball Activity. Create a Synonym Choose Kind Sign. Positive Words Classmates Activity. Wonder Wall of Precepts. Lots of WONDER-ful Activities.

The author skillfully uses figures of speech within the novel like metaphor, simile, personification, idiom, oxymoron, hyperbole, pun or onomatopoeia, and these assignments allow students to examine quotes from the text to determine what literary device is being used.

Wonder lesson plans can be set around many different things. You can focus on the theme of kindness, family, friendship, belonging, acceptance, and so many more. Getting students to understand the underlying messages throughout the story will have them think beyond the text and see how it applies to their lives.

The main plot of Wonder is that August, a ten-year-old with facial differences, goes to a traditional school for the first time in fifth grade. In school, August makes new friends, has conflicts with friends and deals with a bully. The experiences help August to see that he is capable of being independent.

The book starts and ends in the first person point of view, told by the main character Auggie, a ten year old boy. Throughout the book, the point of view changes and is told through other perspectives (through the eyes of his sister and kids at the school).

The writing style is in first person, past tense. Every few chapters, the perspective changes to a character you are introduced to along the way. Sometimes it is August's sister Olivia, or Summer Dawson who becomes August's first friend, or even Olivia's boyfriend, Justin.

As I've defined it, five interlinking elements comprise the wonder cycle: watch, wander, whittle, wow, and whoa (or the psychological terms openness, curiosity, absorption, and the two elements of awe.) Wonder offers a host of benefits, both psychologically and physiologically.

Kindness is the main theme in Wonder. It helps us realize that a small, simple act of kindness can make a big difference, and we have the ability to CHOOSE KIND.