Oct 10
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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Oct 03
Once you read this summary on The Phantom Tollbooth, you are going to want to read this book with your students. The story is great for teaching so many skills. Wordplay is scattered throughout the novel making it fun. Be sure to check out The Phantom Tollbooth activities including the map of Milo’s travels for students to …
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Sep 12
Are you planning to use Elizabeth Geroge Speare’s wonderful book? Your students are in for a real treat! Enhance your unit with these The Sign of the Beaver activities. Matt and his pa travel to Maine leaving the rest of his family at home. They build a cabin and plant corn on the newly purchased …
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Sep 05
Check out these four projects to use with Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Your students will love the crafts and videos! Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is a thrilling adventure story about a widowed field mouse named Mrs. Frisby. She is faced with the challenge of saving her family from danger. When …
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Mar 23
James and the Giant Peach is a magical and whimsical story about lonely boy who lives with cruel aunts after his parents die from a rhinoceros. One day an Old Man appears in James’s backyard and gives him a bag of magical green crystals. He gives him instructions on how to use these crystals. James …
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Feb 16
If you are looking for some Island of the Blue Dolphins activities, you have come to the right place. This post includes novel study samples, anchor chart ideas, printables, and more. Island of the Blue Dolphins is based on a nonfictional story of a young girl who was stranded for 18 years on an island off the coast …
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Jan 26
Are you looking for Tuck Everlasting activities to add to your novel study? This post includes anchor chart ideas along with a constructed response question to make the chart interactive. You’ll also find a novel study sample. Tuck Everlasting is about ten-year-old Winnie who is stifled by the strict rules her family has set. She decides to run …
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