Number the Stars: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Number the Stars: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Author: Suzanne I. Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425889859

Use this guide to follow the story of ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her Jewish best friend Ellen who must move in with the Johansen family and pretend to be their daughter to escape the Nazis. Number the Stars: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text. Readers will learn to connect historical events to this story, analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of this Newbery Medal-winning novel.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: Number the Stars

An Instructional Guide for Literature: Number the Stars
Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425897274

Use this guide to follow the story of ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her Jewish best friend Ellen who must move in with the Johansen family and pretend to be their daughter to escape the Nazis. Readers will learn to connect historical events to this personal, engaging story with the help of this literary guide. Analyzing 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 story, each activity and lesson work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature.

The Giver: An Instructional Guide for Literature

The Giver: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Author: Kristin Kemp
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425889786

Young readers will be captivated as they discover the dark secrets of a supposedly utopian society in this classic Newbery Award-winning novel. The Giver: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides challenging activities and lessons that work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements. Students can practice close reading, improve text-based vocabulary, and determine meaning through text-dependent questions. This guide is the perfect resource to add rigor to your students' exploration of rich, complex literature.

Number the Stars Leveled Comprehension Questions

Number the Stars Leveled Comprehension Questions
Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1480791334

These leveled discussion questions about Number the Stars require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.

Number the Stars Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions

Number the Stars Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions
Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 7
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1480791350

Students analyze Number the Stars 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.

Number the Stars Post-Reading Activities

Number the Stars Post-Reading Activities
Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1480791385

These assessment questions for Number the Stars 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.

Number the Stars Vocabulary Activities

Number the Stars Vocabulary Activities
Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1480791326

These vocabulary activities for Number the Stars 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.

Number the Stars Comprehension Assessment

Number the Stars Comprehension Assessment
Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 4
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1480791393

These assessment questions for Number the Stars 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.

More Novels and Plays

More Novels and Plays
Author: Albert B. Somers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2000-05-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313080410

Another information-packed, time-saving tool for teachers from the authors of Novels and Plays, this book contains 30 teaching guides for some of the best literature commonly taught in grades 6-12. With initiating activities, chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing assignments, and interdisciplinary extensions, these are complete lesson plans. For each book there is also a brief plot summary, a critique, lists of themes and literary concepts for teaching, suggestions for outside reading and vocabulary study, and lists of available print and electronic media resources.

Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology

Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology
Author: Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1097
Release: 2010-02-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0387717986

With contributions from leading school psychology practitioners, this encyclopedia provides a one-of-a-kind guide to cross-cultural school psychology. Some 400 entries explore concepts, themes, and the latest research findings to answer your questions in all aspects of the field. Moreover, the encyclopedia offers support at all levels of primary and secondary education, from pre-K to 12th grade. Each entry offers a description of a particular term, a bibliography, and additional readings. The editor is widely known for her bi-weekly Spanish-language columns and her appearances on television and radio as a cross-cultural expert.