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Native Americans Common Core RL.5.4 cultural activities

Iroquois Folk Tales

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Native Americans are great story tellers and each of these 33 Iroquois folk tales is an ideal 2-3 pages in length...perfect to use as a class read-aloud or as authentic text in guided reading groups. Additionally, these Iroquois folk tales are rich in figurative language such as similes, metaphors and personification. Several are origin stories (or pourquois tales) which tell how or why things came to be. These Iroquois folk tales were originally published in 1917 by a white woman named Mabe

Subjects:

Native Americans, Short Stories, Thanksgiving

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Guided Reading Books, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RL.3.2

, RL.4.1

, RL.5.4

, RL.6.4

"The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses" by Paul Goble - Question Bank - Assessment

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Education Island

The attached PDF contains 30 multiple choice questions for the Native American, Caldecott Award Winning children's book, "The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses", by Paul Goble. The book is a Guided Reading Level N. There are 15 "Right There" type questions and 15 "Inferential" type questions. The questions have four possible choices with the correct answer highlighted for each in the answer key. Reading literature and/or informational text and being able to answer questions based from text is centra

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Native Americans, Reading

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Worksheets, Assessment, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RL.3.1

, RL.3.2

, RL.3.3

, RL.3.5

, RL.3.10

...

Brother Eagle, Sister Sky; a PowerPoint presentation

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Education Island

Attached is a PowerPoint Presentation is designed to correspond with children’s literature book, "Brother Eagle, Sister Sky" with illustrations by Susan Jeffers. It is a Guided Reading Level M book based on the plea made by Chief Seattle in the mid-1850s to the US government to care for the land as the Native American had cared for it. There is an introduction activity that corresponds with the book, “Legends of the Iroquois” where students would read the short story about conservation as an

Subjects:

Native Americans, Short Stories, Vocabulary

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RL.4.1

, RL.4.3

, RL.4.6

, RL.4.9

, RL.5.3

...

Paul Goble - Native American Stories - Question Bank BUNDLE Save 50%

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Education Island

The attached is 150 questions for six children's book by Native American author, Paul Goble. The questions are for books: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (GRL - N; #Q - 30), Dream Wolf ,(GRL - M; #Q - 20) Star Boy (GRL - N; #Q - 30) , The Death of the Iron Horse(GRL - N; #Q - 20) , Beyond the Ridge (GRL - N; #Q - 30) , and The Lost Children (GRL - N; #Q - 20). Half of all the questions are "right there" type of questions and the other half of "inferential" type questions. Each book is labeled

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Native Americans, Reading

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Cultural Activities, Centers

CCSS:

RL.3.1

, RL.3.2

, RL.3.3

, RL.3.9

, RL.4.1

...

Native American Folktale vocabulary list with assessment and key

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Education Island

This is a list of twenty terms related to three Native American Legends. It can be combined with the PowerPoint presentation and used as the handouts for the Day 1 lesson in the one week mini-unit found at this same site. There is the word, its definition and a fill-in the blank. Then, there is a practice sheet for the synonyms. Finally, there is an assessment with an assessment key. The assessment is primarily using the words from a word bank to complete a sentence, match with a synonym a

Subjects:

Native Americans, Vocabulary

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Handouts, Assessment, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RL.4.4

, RL.5.4

, RL.6.4

, RL.7.4

Native American Vocabulary PowerPoint Presentation

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Education Island

This is a presentation of twenty terms related to three Native American Legends. It can be combined with the handouts and used as the PowerPoint for the Day 1 lesson in the one week mini-unit found at this same site (described below). Each slide includes the word, its definition, a creative sentence and an illustration. There is a link embedded to a Quizlet.com activity. This lesson can be used independently but works better if combined with the mini-unit described below. Big Questions:

Subjects:

Native Americans, Vocabulary

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RL.4.4

, RL.5.4

, RL.6.4

, RL.7.4