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.

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 Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963: An Instructional Guide for Literature

The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Author: Suzanne I. Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425889891

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!

Number the Stars

Number the Stars
Author: Scholastic, Inc. Staff
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1997-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780590366502

Includes an author biography, chapter summaries, vocabulary builders, reproducibles, and cross-curricular activities for students of all learning styles for Lois Lowry's novel, "Number the Stars"

Leveled Books (K-8)

Leveled Books (K-8)
Author: Irene C. Fountas
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN:

For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books, K-8 to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on: the role of leveled books in reading instruction, analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts, using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, selecting books for both guided and independent reading, organizing high-quality classroom libraries, acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases, creating a school book room. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction. Best of all, Leveled Books, K-8 is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion-www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com-is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes more than 18,000 titles. With Leveled Books, K-8 you'll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, you'll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading. Book jacket.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: M.C. Higgins, the Great

An Instructional Guide for Literature: M.C. Higgins, the Great
Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425897258

Full of life lessons about growing up, this well-known story will have students comparing and contrasting their own life experiences with those in the book by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons in this instructional guide for literature. These rigorous, cross-curricular lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to comprehend complex literature and help them understand the significance of the story. This resource supports this well-known novel 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.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

An Instructional Guide for Literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1480798932

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.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: The Dark Is Rising

An Instructional Guide for Literature: The Dark Is Rising
Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425897223

Use this guide to introduce students to this award-winning story and encourage them to analyze Will's journey to defeat the dark. This instructional guide for literature is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this sensational story. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities were written to support this story and 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.

Leveled Nonfiction Passages for Building Comprehension

Leveled Nonfiction Passages for Building Comprehension
Author: Carol Ghiglieri
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780545227568

12 sets of high-interest passages, written at three levels with test-formatted questions to target and teach key comprehension skills.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: Dragonwings

An Instructional Guide for Literature: Dragonwings
Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1493860356

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.