The Giver Teaching Ideas

The Giver

Enjoy these five teaching ideas to use with your novel study of The Giver, You’ll find novel study samples and a great symbolism activity.

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Teaching Ideas

The Best Christmas Pageant

If you’re planning to use Barbara Robinson‘s hilarious book The Best Christmas Pageant Ever with your students this holiday season, check out this collection of teaching ideas and cross-curricular activities. Mrs. Armstrong breaks her leg, so Mother must direct the Christmas pageant. Everything goes wrong when the Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world, are the only ones to …

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The One and Only Ivan Activities

The One and Only Ivan

If you haven’t read The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate, you are in for a real treat. The story is told from the perspective of Ivan, a silverback gorilla in a journal-like format.  The reader learns about Ivan’s past through flashbacks, his struggles in the present living in the small confined cage at the Exit …

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Mixed-Up Files Activities

Mixed-Up Files

Do you need a Mixed-up Files activity or two to add to your From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg unit? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Here you will find Mixed-Up Files activities including maps, printables, and novel study samples.   Summary Claudia is a few weeks shy of …

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Paintbrushes & Arrows by M.C. Finotti

Paintbrushes & Arrows

I am extremely excited to have M.C. Finotti, author of Paintbrushes & Arrows: A Story of Two Girls in St. Augustine in 1875, guest blogging today. Her book is a rare gift. Teachers will love how it weaves real people and events into a heartwarming story.  Thank you, Gay Miller, for the opportunity to write a …

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Out of My Mind Book by Sharon Draper

Out of My Mind

Out of My Mind book by Sharon Draper is an amazing story about an eleven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. When Melody is quite young, she goes over to her next-door neighbor’s house, Mrs. V. Mrs. V doesn’t pamper Melody as her parents do. She teaches her how to roll over and scoot. She realizes that Melody …

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Esperanza Rising Teaching Ideas

Esperanza Rising

Are you looking for some Esperanza Rising teaching ideas? This post includes a character trait activity as well as novel unit samples. Esperanza Rising Summary The year is 1930, just ten years after the Mexican Revolution. Esperanza is the only child of a wealthy landowner. She lives in a vineyard in Mexico. Esperanza only knows the life …

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