Plot Profiles

This strategy, designed for grade 3 to grade 8, focuses on reading comprehension.  This strategy is best used as a tool when reading a book to discuss a novel.  It is important to note that this particular strategy is intended for chapter books, not picture books. Plot profiles are best used to discuss the different conflicts in chapter books or other complex stories.  Students can use a graph to track tension points throughout the chapters, and after use a reading log to discuss their findings.  Once students have read the entire novel and completed their plot profiling, they participate in a grand conversation with the teacher and the class.  This strategy encompasses two other strategies once completing the plot profiling.  These strategies are: reading logs and grand conversations.  Therefore, this strategy contains UDL because it includes multiple ways for students to understand what is happening throughout the course of the novel.