Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 Close Reading and Text Dependent Questions written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students analyze The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions and suggested answers.
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 written by Christopher Paul Curtis and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about a hilarious family on a road-trip at one of the most important times in America's history. This special edition makes a perfect gift and includes bonus content! Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they'll be in Birmingham during one of the darkest moments in America's history. "Every so often a book becomes a modern classic almost as soon as it arrives on bookshelves. That happened in the mid-'90s when Christopher Paul Curtis released his first book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --NPR "One of the best novels EVER." --Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 An Instructional Guide for Literature written by Suzanne I. Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 75 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 Newbery Honor Book set in 1960's Birmingham. The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963: 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 The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 Reading Guide written by Saddleback Educational Publishing and published by Saddleback Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling readers frequently lack basic reading skills and are not equipped with the prior knowledge and reading strategies to thoroughly engage in the classroom literature experience. Give your students the background and support they need to understand and enjoy literature. With these reading guides, your students will practice reading comprehension skills, sharpen their vocabulary, and learn to identify literary elements. The eBooks range in reading level from 4 to 10. Reproducible. Contents Include: Teacher and student support materials, reproducible student activity sheets, an end-of-book test, and an answer key. Each reading guide divides the novel into six manageable units. Prepares all students for reading success through activating prior knowledge. Focuses reading with guiding "Questions to Think About". Build vocabulary with pre-reading and during-reading activities.
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 Post Reading Activities written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These assessment questions for The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.
Download or read book An Instructional Guide for Literature The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connect students with events from the past by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons with this e-book guide about a story based on tragic events that occurred in Birmingham as a result of racism. The Watsons visit their grandma in Birmingham, intending to have their troubled son stay with her to learn some discipline, but return home when there is a bombing in a local church. This literary instructional guide is filled with rigorous cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the fictional text to teach students how to comprehend complex literature and help them understand the significance of the historical events the story is based on. This resource supports Common Core Learning Standards and 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.
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 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 The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis written by Anita Yeoman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 Comprehension Assessment written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These assessment questions for The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 Literature Kit Gr 5 6 written by Evie Christie and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family travels south in hopes of straightening out their misbehaving son, only to experience violence and racism that threaten their safety. The worksheets are laid out in a way that “makes sense” for students to follow along with the novel. Put events from the novel in the order they occur at Kenny’s school. Predict whether Kenny will be able to mend his friendship with Rufus. Explain why Kenny and his mother react a certain way to Byron’s hairstyle choice. Put yourselves into the author’s shoes and speculate why Kenny’s near-drowning experience was put into a certain perspective. Design a sign to post at Collier’s Landing to warn people that it is not safe to swim there. Identify elements of literature from the novel with a story elements graphic organizer. 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: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 follows Kenny and his family as they experience firsthand the violence and racism engulfing the South in the 1960s. Kenny is a fourth grader living with his family in Flint, Michigan. The winters are cold and the family must huddle together for warmth. At school, Kenny experiences bullying from his classmates, only saved by his brother—the biggest bully of all—who picks on Kenny at home. The two look after their younger sister as she starts to learn right from wrong in Sunday school. As Kenny’s brother’s behavior starts to get out-of-control, their mom and dad decide to send him down to Birmingham, Alabama to live with his grandmother over the summer. Hoping she’ll straighten him out, the family sets off in their “Brown Bomber” on the long drive down south. When they arrive, they experience fear, violence and racism that culminates in a tragedy that shakes them to their core. From this experience, Kenny must overcome his insecurities and deal with real world issues at a very young age.
Download or read book A Reading Guide to written by Amy Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the writing, characters, plot and themes of this 1996 Newbery Honor Book. Includes discussion questions and activities.
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 Vocabulary Activities written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These vocabulary activities for The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 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 Focus on Reading written by and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis written by Kathleen M. Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham written by Kathleen M. Fischer and published by Learning Links. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel-Ties study guides contain reproducible pages in a chapter by chapter format to accompany a work of literature of the same title.
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham Novel Units Teacher Guide written by Lori Mammen and published by Novel Units. This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes suggested activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963.
Download or read book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 Reader Response Writing Prompts written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students respond to The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 through writing. Various writing prompts, which require students to make connections, are provided. Narrative, opinion/argument, and informative/explanatory prompts are included.
