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Middle school african history literature circles for International Baccalaureate
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park: Novel Chapter Quizzes
A Long Walk to Water by Newbery Award winning author Linda Sue Park is based on a true story of refugee boys during the civil war crisis in Sudan (Africa). It is also a story about the global issue of clean water availability. The book presents an incredible reading experience, one that I'd recommend to any middle school classrom! This product is a set of 18 printable quizzes to assess your students' comprehension and memory recall of the novel events. Quizzes are comprised of 5 multiple choice
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: A Long Walk to Water Bundle
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park - Reader Response Journal and Rubric
A Long Walk to Water by Newbery Award winning author Linda Sue Park is an incredible reading experience, one that I'd recommend to any middle school classrom! This product is a set of 24 printable writing prompt worksheets that will encourage your students to think critically and share their thoughts in a well written paragraph. A rubric for self-evaluation and teacher assessment will help both students and teachers stay on track with the writing task.The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: A Long Walk to Water Bundle
A Long Walk to Water Anticipation Guide & Post Reading Activity
A Long Walk to Water by Newbery Award winning author Linda Sue Park is an incredible reading experience, one that I'd recommend to any middle school classrom! This product is an anticipation guide that you can use to pique students' interest and introduce them to the concepts that will appear in the novel. After students complete the chart create discussion by asking students to share their answers. I like to put the signs: AGREE/DISAGREE/NEUTRAL around the room as ask students to move to the si
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: A Long Walk to Water Bundle
Novel Study: Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Includes questions for each chapter and answer key with page numbers for each question.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Novel Study: The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown
Includes questions for each chapter and answer key with page numbers for each question.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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The Glass Sentence Novel Study
This is a fantastic novel to read with middle school students or advanced intermediate grade students. The Glass Sentence is the first novel in a trilogy. The novel study includes chapter checks for all 39 chapters, an answer key, mini activity ideas, and a culminating PBL that incorporates Social Studies and Language Arts standards. The novel can be read as a whole class read aloud, independent reading, as a literature circle, or small group book study. There is one page for each chapter and th
Grades:
5th - 8th
A Long Walk to Water Bundle
A Long Walk to Water by Newbery Award winning author Linda Sue Park is based on a true story of refugee boys during the civil war crisis in Sudan (Africa). It is also a story about the global issue of clean water availability. The book presents an incredible reading experience, one that I'd recommend to any middle school classrom!This bundle has everything you need to share this book with your students and teach them some reading comprehenion and writing skills along the way. This bundle include
Grades:
7th - 9th
I Am Kenneth Omondi Ochieng
The English version of our 3rd to 5th-grade reader, a story told by Kenyan Native resident Dr. Kenneth Omondi Ochieng about his life in Kenya and how he became a food forester working to reforest Kenya and other countries and how he works to revitalize the Lake Victoria ecosystems. This book is also available in Dr. Kenneth Omondi Ochieng's native language of Omondi and told in his own voice in the audio link included in both the English and Omondi versions. 50% of all sales on this title are do
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
"Puppets of Spelhorst" by Kate DiCamillo - Activities
I loved this book by Kate DiCamillo and created 8 different activities that connect to the ATL (Approaches to Learning) in the category of Thinking skills. This can be used in a literature group, activity for a classroom or as work packet. Students will engage in:-note taking-character exploration-sequencing-reflecting on their own experience as a reader-summarizing-comprehension (QAR question-answer relationships)-creativity (making their own stories with the puppet cut outs)
Grades:
2nd - 6th
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND INTRO & EDITABLE BOOK REPORT template Long Walk to Water
PURPOSE: This NONFICTION PowerPoint bundle provides digital pre-reading resources & factual historical background information for A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park BL 5.0. Also included is the editable BOOK REPORT PowerPoint template especially designed for use with historical fiction novels. This may be completed as a culminating project or assessment.GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous historical fiction literature by front-loading historical facts
Grades:
4th - 12th
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Intro & EDITABLE BOOK REPORT for novel CHAINS
PURPOSE: This PowerPoint lesson bundle provides digital pre-reading resources & factual historical background information for Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. BL-5.2GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous historical fiction literature by front-loading historical facts to aid comprehension & align to standardsAUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms, literature circles or book clubsHISTORICAL POWE
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Now Is the Time for Running Novel Study/South Africa Unit (UPDATED Oct 2023)
Now Is the Time for Running is an amazing story of survival that follows Deo and his mentally disabled older brother on a transformative journey that will stick with readers long after the last page. This novel discusses xenophobia and gives us a glimpse into the life of a young refugee. SummaryJust down the road from their families, Deo and his friends play soccer in the dusty fields of Zimbabwe. They are cheered by his older brother, Innocent. It is a day like any other until the soldiers arri
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Recording templates for Project Zero Thinking Routines
Recording templates to help students engage with thinking routine protocols from Project Zero.
Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Nelson Mandela Book Bundle - Worksheets for 3 Books
This resource is a book bundle with activities to do based on the following books about Nelson Mandela:1. Little People, Big Dreams - Nelson Mandela by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara2. The Extraordinary Life of Nelson Mandela by E. L. Norry3. National Geographic Kids Reader - Nelson Mandela by Barbara KramerAll of these resources are available in our store to be purchased individually but purchasing them together in this bundle is a significant saving.Some of the activities in this resource may be
Grades:
3rd - 6th
One Thousand Hills Novel Study
One Thousand Hills tells the story of Pascal, a boy growing up in Agabande, Rwanda. Pascal lives with his parents, older brother and little sister, and life is good. He goes to school, his parents own a water tank, and he does what is expected of him. Little does he know that his world is about to horrifically be turned upside down.
The set of questions developed here can be used as an independent novel study. An answer key is attached for teachers. Further, this novel study could be used
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Eight Novel Studies for Literature Circles or Independent Reading
A Long Way Gone -- Multiple Choice Test
This is a 25 question (3 page), multiple-choice test on the novel A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. This quiz will assess whether or not your students read the book, but it will not test ELA standards (though there are some standards-based questions mixed in).I usually assign monthly independent reading for homework with a list of approximately 4 -10 novels to choose from, and then I quiz my students on the novel to be sure that they read.A Long Way Gone would make an excellent whole-class novel
Grades:
8th - 12th
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CIVIL RIGHTS BUNDLE
February is Black History Month and what better time to introduce these famous faces of American History? These digital Close Reading Passages and Questions are a perfect way to free up your time and engage your class! Created for upper elementary to middle school, they are designed with Depth of Knowledge and Higher Order Thinking Skills. Why should you waste hours of your precious family or personal time creating engaging and high-interest activities when it is already done for you?Close Read
Grades:
4th - 7th
International Children's Book Day Class Play or Assembly
International Children's Book Day Class Play or Assembly
This script was written in celebration of International Children's Book Day April 2nd 2017 including characters from Horrid Henry, Peter Pan, The Gruffalo, Charlotte's Web, Captain Underpants, Matilda, The Tales of Narnia, Alice in Wonderland and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
NB This is the same script as World Book Day Class Play but adapted to International Children's Book Day.
Cast of 30 (easily adapted up or down)
Dura
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Journey to Jo'burg independent reading packet
This 6 page independent reading resource will assist students in comprehension while reading Journey to Jo'Burg. When they have answered 25 recall questions, arranged by chapter and page order, students will be prepared to participate in other guided reading or literacy circle activities. The questions included are intended to help teachers make sure students are completing reading and not just looking through texts or (worst case scenario) fake reading! This packet is a great additional resourc
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Grades:
4th - 7th
The Intangible Heritage Book
A book that can be printed as a set of cards or as a small book to explore ideas connected to the UNESCO intangible heritage criteria. The text is simple and requires the readers to think and explore ideas using a visible thinking routine. The text is primarily pictures and questions designed to prompt thinking and reflection. Excellent tool for IB PYP Where We Are in Place and Time inquiries.
Grades:
4th - 7th
Critical Literacy – Guided cards
Aim: To provide teachers with resources that can be used to introduce, model, and teach critical literacy through guided inquiry
Subject links: Reading, writing, spelling and any research topic
Included in the resource: Overview of the different pages, Guide as to how images and visual literacy can be used to support inquiry; each stage (code breaker, connector, researcher and meaning maker) of the critical literacy process has
Overview page
Details with specific connections to reading, writi
Grades:
4th - 6th
Critical Literacy – Collaborative posters
Aim: To provide teachers with resources that can be used to introduce, model, collaboratively build ideas and teach critical literacy
Subject links: Reading, writing, spelling and any research topic
Included in the resource: Overview of the different pages, Guide as to how images and visual literacy can be used to support inquiry; each stage (code breaker, connector, researcher and meaning maker) of the critical literacy process has
Overview page
Details with specific connections to reading,
Grades:
4th - 7th
Dear Levi Literature Circle
This resource can be used whole group or in smaller literature circles/guided reading groups. Each day, students will read Dear Levi and engage in many different skills including context clues, characterization, inferencing, finding evidence, etc. IB themes are used in some of the activities, but these can be easily changed to fit your classroom needs.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Lyman T. Johnson - Article and Vocabulary
This is an article based on the book The Rest of the Dream by Wade Hall. It deals with the background and history of this famous man who came to Louisville and made history for African Americans. He was the first person to challenge the fact that the University of Kentucky didn't accept African Americans -- and he won. He was a teacher in Jefferson County and he challenged his students to disrupt, without being disrespectful. The only book about his life, The Rest of the Dream, is a bit heavy fo
Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
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