Holes: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Author: Jessica Case
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425889808
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 75

Book Description
Holes: An Instructional Guide for Literature aids students in analyzing and comprehending this Newbery Medal and National Book Award-winning novel about a boy who struggles to work his way out of his family's bad luck. By completing appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text, students will learn how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more. Strengthen your students' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!

Holes

Author: Jessica Case
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN: 1480781150
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Because of Winn-Dixie: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Author: Tracy Pearce
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425889557
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
Because of Winn-Dixie: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities to support this award-winning children's favorite. This guide is the perfect tool to aid young readers in analyzing and comprehending this inspiring story. Students will learn how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of this Newbery Honor book.

Holes

Author: Joyce Friedland
Publisher: Learning Links
ISBN: 9780767509046
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
Reproducible study guide to accompany the novel: in chapter-by-chapter format includes vocabulary, comprehension questions, writing activities, cross-curricula connections, graphic organizers and more.

Holes

Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307798364
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content. Winner of the Newbery Medal as well as the National Book Award, HOLES is a New York Times bestseller and one of the strongest-selling middle-grade books to ever hit shelves! Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment —and redemption. Special anniversary edition bonus content includes: A New Note From the Author!; "Ten Things You May Not Know About HOLES" by Louis Sachar; and more!

Bound: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Author: Kristin Kemp
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425817696
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
This instructional guide for literature provides engaging lesson plans and activities for students as they read Bound, a critically acclaimed YA fiction novel that takes place in ancient China and puts a spin on the classic Cinderella fairy tale. This valuable resource guides teachers with ways to add rigor with complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the text with higher-order thinking skills, with lessons focused on story elements, vocabulary, and more. Close reading activities throughout the literature units encourage students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages to respond more critically. With various methods of assessing comprehension, this instructional guide offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build a greater understanding of this great literary work.

Of Mice and Men: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Author: Kristin Kemp
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1480785083
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
Of Mice and Men: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides lesson plans and activities designed specifically for this classic novel by John Steinbeck. This valuable resource guides teachers in a rich and deep exploration of the text with ways to add rigor with complex literature. Readers will enjoy their analysis of this story while evaluating its themes of friendship and loss through close reading, text-based vocabulary practice, and fun activities and lessons. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the story, and close reading activities require students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages for deeper analysis. With various methods of assessing comprehension, this instructional guide offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build an in-depth understanding of this classic tale.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: Hatchet

Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425897231
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
Use this guide to explore the story of a boy who is left stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash and must learn to survive with only the help of his hatchet. This instructional guide for literature supports this story and is filled with challenging cross-curricular activities and lessons that work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to better analyze and comprehend literature. This guide is the perfect tool to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, packed with ways to practice close reading, improve text-based vocabulary, and determine meaning through text-dependent questions. This is the perfect way to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature.

Out of My Mind: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425830218
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
The engaging book, Out of My Mind, will fascinate readers with a compelling story about a disabled girl with a photographic memory. This instructional guide for literature is a standards-based resource that offers engaging activities and lessons to help students build literacy skills by analyzing story elements, participating in close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions.

Lord of the Flies: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Author: Jennifer Kroll
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1480785164
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
Lord of the Flies: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides lesson plans and activities for this classic young adult novel. This valuable resource guides teachers with ways to help students comprehend complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the text with higher-order thinking skills, with lessons focused on story elements, vocabulary, and more. Close reading activities throughout the literature units encourages students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages to respond more critically about the text. With various methods of assessing comprehension, this instructional guide offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build a greater understanding of this great literary work.