P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia: A PDF and TpT Digital Novel Study
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This easy-to-use, independent work bundle includes a PDF novel study for each of these award-winning historical fiction novels by Rita Williams-Garcia: One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, and Gone Crazy in Alabama. Each novel study is designed to reinforce essential reading and writing skills and CCSSPrice $20.00Original Price $25.00Save $5.00
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This is a ready-to-use, custom made, independent work packet for middle graders who are reading the award-winning historical fiction novel, P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia. It is a PDF &/or Easel digital novel study. Included are 28 student pages, an answer key, research ideas, a vocabulary bookmark, lists of vocabulary words for the teacher, and a listing of Common Core Standards supported in the packet. The student pages are designed to reinforce essential reading and writing skills for students in grades 5-8.
Reading and writing skills in the student activities include determining theme, setting, inference, explaining, comprehension, summarizing, historical clues, recognizing point-of-view, vocabulary, figurative language (simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification), and using context clues.
The student instructions divide the text into six reading assignments of approximately 40 pages each. Each assignment includes questions and tasks to go with the reading. In addition there are three culminating activities at the end of the booklet. The student worksheets are designed for independent work so that students may be working on this in class while the teacher is meeting with another group. Or, the booklet can be used as out-of-class homework.
NOTE: I also have a novel study for the other books in this series: One Crazy Summer and Gone Crazy in Alabama. Or, you can purchase all three novel studies at a discount in One Crazy Bundle.
P.S. Be Eleven in a Nutshell:
This book takes up where One Crazy Summer left off. The year is 1968 and 11½ year old Delphine and her two younger sisters have just returned to Brooklyn after visiting their mother in California. This historical fiction book gives the reader a great peek at growing up in an African American household in Bedford-Stuyvesant at the time of the Viet Nam war and the election of President Nixon. The writing is delightfully rich and descriptive!
Appropriate for students in grades 5-8. Reading level approximately 5th grade.
AWARD WINNING BOOK: Coretta Scott King Honor Award.
