Download or read book M C Higgins the Great An Instructional Guide for Literature written by Suzanne I. Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for ways to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature? Students will be engaged as they analyze this book that has won both the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award. M.C. Higgins, the Great: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides engaging activities that incorporate the following research-based literacy skills: close reading tasks; text-based vocabulary practice; cross-curricular activities; text-dependent questions; reader response writing prompts; leveled comprehension questions; story elements comprehension tasks; diverse and relevant assessments. Strengthen your students' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!
Download or read book M C Higgins the Great Leveled Comprehension Questions written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These leveled discussion questions about M.C. Higgins, the Great require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.
Download or read book M C Higgins the Great Vocabulary Activities written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These vocabulary activities for M.C. Higgins, the Great incorporate key skills from the Common Core. The activities integrate vocabulary with a study of the text. Includes text-dependent questions, definitions, and text-based sentences.
Download or read book M C Higgins the Great Literature Kit Gr 3 4 written by Nat Reed and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow one boy's struggle as he faces many challenges that threaten the safety and livelihood of his family. Students fully comprehend the language of the novel with vocabulary practice. Explore the idea of phobias while relating it back to the character, M.C. Describe the tragic event that was narrowly averted due to the carelessness of the mining company. Predict how M.C. and the girl will make it to the end of the tunnel. Do some research and write a report on yodeling. Identify what is a fact and what is an opinion in the novel. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: M.C. Higgins, the Great is a Newbery Medal-winning story about a young boy who is overcome with many challenges while living with his poor, African-American family on Sarah’s Mountain. M.C. Higgins must overcome the prejudice that surrounds his best friend with the help of a mysterious girl who appears on the mountain. Also, M.C. tries to get his mother’s singing voice recorded so he and his family can leave the mountain. The greatest challenge M.C. must face is a coal mining company that have been strip-mining the area above their house, leaving a huge pile of slag (spoil heap) piled dangerously on the mountain above their house. M.C. is convinced that the pile will one day give way and bury their house and everyone in it; therefore he stands guard by sitting on a high pole.
Download or read book Critical Reading Activities for the Works of Virginia Hamilton written by Bernice Golden and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zeely written by Virginia Hamilton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1967 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen.
Download or read book Study Guide for The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides teaching strategies, background, and suggested resources; reproducible student pages to use before, during, and after reading--Cover.
Download or read book An Instructional Guide for Literature The Adventures of Tom Sawyer written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow along as young Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn embark on various fun-filled yet risky adventures. Readers will be eager to analyze this well-known story by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature. This guide will make analyzing this literary piece fun and interesting for students. Exploring story elements in multiple ways, close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will walk away with after interacting with the rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities in this resource. Written to support this all-time favorite, each activity and lesson work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend complex literature.
Download or read book Writing Literature Reviews written by Jose L. Galvan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guideline 12: If the Results of Previous Studies Are Inconsistent or Widely Varying, Cite Them Separately
Download or read book Every Reader a Close Reader written by Samantha Cleaver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close reading, the purposeful, focused reading and rereading of text, is more than an education buzzword. Every Reader, a Close Reader defines and unpacks the components of close reading and explores how to apply it within the context of the Common Core State Standards so that every student will be able to implement close reading strategies in class and independently. Drawing expertise and ideas from research, as well as teachers from across the country, Every Reader, a Close Reader serves as both an instructional guide and professional development tool for classroom teachers and instructional leaders to use when starting or strengthening close reading at the classroom level. In addition, this book includes chapters that focus on developing the close reading skills of students who are struggling readers, English language learners, or gifted learners.
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Download or read book An Instructional Guide for Literature Dragonwings written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce students to this award-winning novel and encourage them to analyze the text by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this digital instructional guide for literature. This e-book guide is filled with rigorous, cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to comprehend and analyze complex literature. This resource is packed with tools for teachers to help students learn how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. This is the perfect way to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature.
Download or read book Teaching Words and How They Work written by Elfrieda H. Hiebert and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research shows that vocabulary is the best support for students’ comprehension of narrative and information texts. Often, vocabulary instruction focuses on a few target words in specific texts. However, to understand the many new words in complex texts students need to know how words work. This book, written by an award-winning authority on reading instruction, shows teachers how to make small changes to teach more words and also how words work. Many of these small changes involve enrichments to existing vocabulary practices, such as word walls and conversations with students. Each chapter includes descriptions of teachers’ implementation of small changes to support big gains in students’ vocabulary. This book, which has sufficient depth in research and theory for graduate and undergraduate courses in vocabulary instruction, also offers practical steps that K–8 teachers can use in any reading program to help all students grow their vocabulary. Teaching Words and How They Work shows teachers how to: Identify the most important word families to teach. Teach students to use opening text as background knowledge for comprehending the rest of the text. Use word walls with more purpose and greater student engagement. Select the right words to teach from new information texts. Better understand limitations of leveled texts and how to adjust. Use assets and address challenges to support English learners. Access free mentor and teacher resources online at textproject.org.
Download or read book An Instructional Guide for Literature Maniac Magee written by Mary Ellen Taylor and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the many obstacles that Maniac Magee encounters in this eye-opening book. Students will learn to analyze prejudices and other challenges that Magee faces by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this digital instructional guide for literature. This e-book guide is the perfect tool for teachers to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this story. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. These lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more.
Download or read book An Instructional Guide for Literature Flora Ulysses The Illuminated Adventures written by Debra J. Housel and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Flora and Ulysses in this humorous, Newberry award-winning story about hope and promise. Introduce students to this story and encourage them to analyze the text by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature. This guide is filled with rigorous, cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to comprehend and analyze complex literature. This resource is packed with tools to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. This is the perfect way to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature.
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