An Instructional Guide for Literature: Flora & Ulysses--The Illuminated Adventures

An Instructional Guide for Literature: Flora & Ulysses--The Illuminated Adventures
Author: Debra J. Housel
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1480782351

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.

Flora & Ulysses

Flora & Ulysses
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 076366040X

Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Tale of Despereaux.

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Author: Debra J. Housel
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1480782343

Join Flora and Ulysses in this humorous, Newbery Medal-winning story about a young girl and her pet squirrel. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides fun, challenging activities and lessons 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.

Because of Winn-Dixie: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Because of Winn-Dixie: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Author: Tracy Pearce
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425889557

Because of Winn-Dixie: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities to support this award-winning children's favorite. This guide is the perfect tool to aid young readers in analyzing and comprehending this inspiring story. Students will learn 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. Add rigor to your students' explorations of this Newbery Honor book.

Strange Birds

Strange Birds
Author: Celia C. Pérez
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0425290433

From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk comes the story of four kids who form an alternative Scout troop that shakes up their sleepy Florida town. * "Writing with wry restraint that's reminiscent of Kate DiCamillo... a beautiful tale." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review When three very different girls find a mysterious invitation to a lavish mansion, the promise of adventure and mischief is too intriguing to pass up. Ofelia Castillo (a budding journalist), Aster Douglas (a bookish foodie), and Cat Garcia (a rule-abiding birdwatcher) meet the kid behind the invite, Lane DiSanti, and it isn't love at first sight. But they soon bond over a shared mission to get the Floras, their local Scouts, to ditch an outdated tradition. In their quest for justice, independence, and an unforgettable summer, the girls form their own troop and find something they didn't know they needed: sisterhood.

Just a Second

Just a Second
Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0618708960

Explores time and how we think about it in a different way--as a series of events in the natural world, some of them directly observable, others not.

Flora & Ulysses--The Illuminated Adventure Post-Reading Activities

Flora & Ulysses--The Illuminated Adventure Post-Reading Activities
Author: Debra J. Housel
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 148079497X

These assessment questions for Flora and Ulysses 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.

Flora & Ulysses--Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions

Flora & Ulysses--Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions
Author: Debra J. Housel
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 7
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1480794945

Students analyze Flora and Ulysses using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.

The Tale of Despereaux

The Tale of Despereaux
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763649430

A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal–winning tale. Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. What happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out. With black-and-white illustrations and a refreshed cover by Timothy Basil Ering.