In Chamber of Secrets, Hermione tells Ron and Harry about Polyjuice Potion: “It transforms you into somebody else. Think about it! We could change into three of the Slytherins. No one would know it was us.” When a few fifth-graders attended a Harry Potter reading group with me, we discussed the notion of understanding how
When a few fifth-graders attended a Harry Potter reading group with me, we used clues to figure out who really proposed the Dueling Club in Chamber of Secrets. I had the kids bring their paperback Scholastic copies of Chamber of Secrets. They drew slips of parchment from a goblet with instructions for finding and reading
When three fifth-graders attended a Harry Potter reading group with me, we performed a perspective exercise around the topic of the new Nimbus 2001 brooms that Lucius Malfoy buys for the Slytherin Quidditch team. The kids read aloud from p111 of the Scholastic paperback edition of Chamber of Secrets: “But I booked the field!” said
When three fifth-graders — Torrent, Starry, and Bird – attended a Harry Potter reading group with me, we held a celebration of the end of Sorcerer’s Stone. I promised them that we’d be going through the trapdoor, solving the potions puzzle, brewing a simple Muggle potion, solving mysteries, and then leaving with the Stone. I
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