Jan 19
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tells the story of four siblings: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. After World War II breaks out in London, the siblings go to the English countryside to live with Professor Digory Kirke. The children discover a wardrobe in the professor’s home that takes them to the magical land of …
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Jan 13
Are you looking for some Bud, Not Buddy Teaching Ideas? You’ve come to the right place. Story Summary Bud, Not Buddy tells the story of a 10-year-old orphan whose mother died four years earlier. The year is 1936. This is during the Great Depression. Bud is taken in by the Amoses who think Bud is a troublemaker. They …
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Jan 06
What a terrific book! My students really enjoyed reading Bridge to Terabithia earlier this year. Check out these teaching ideas to make your novel study memorial. The story begins when Jess meets Leslie. The two fifth-graders become best friends. This seems strange since their backgrounds are so different. Leslie is a city girl, and Jess is a …
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Dec 29
Are you looking to add some fun to your Maniac Magee unit? Check out these Maniac Magee Teaching Ideas. Maniac Magee is a great unit for teaching both theme and character change. Story Summary Jeffrey Magee, later nicknamed Maniac, goes to live with Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan after his parents die in a trolley accident. After years of living with …
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Dec 22
From anchor charts paired with constructed response questions to compare the novel to the movie, this post provides many A Wrinkle in Time activities to add to your novel study. From the first line of the book . . . “It was a dark and stormy night,” until the last line. . . “But they never learned …
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Oct 14
I first read the book Wonder while on vacation at the beach. I just couldn’t put the book down, so I ended up spending a good bit of the day sitting under an umbrella reading. Through laughter and tears, I followed Auggie through his fifth-grade year. My first impression was that Palacio was a fantastic writer. Her storytelling …
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Aug 05
In Gary Paulsen’s novel Hatchet, Brian doesn’t exactly sign up for a wilderness vacation. One plane crash later, he finds himself face-to-face with mosquitoes, wild animals, hunger, and the fact that the remote Canadian forest doesn’t come with Wi-Fi. What gets him through? Ingenuity, grit, and a lot of trial and error. The good news …
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