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    A Home for Luna is a heart-warming tale about adapting to another place, displacement, our need for community and friendship, and the life-changing value of kindness.

    About the story: When Luna washes up on a strange shore, she is scared and lonely. She shelters under a wooden crate and dreams of a home from long ago.She soon discovers there is beauty in her new land. “A smell filled the air. A smell like home, but not exactly.” Along the way Luna makes unexpected friends. But will she ever feel at home in a place so different from the one she remembers?

    This teaching resource will help guide your teaching with this book and the themes that are contained within it. Themes include: relationships, conflict, homelessness, adapting to change. It is also a book that can lead to discussions on what living things need to survive, observable changes in our environment (sky and landscape), life cycles, ecosystems and sustainability. 

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  • Guided Reading and Activities - Jumanji
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    This Reading / Literacy resource has been created to use with the Caldecott winning book, Jumanji, written by Chris Van Allsburg. It includes Guided Reading questions, Journal Response pages, Reading Journal pages, Student Activity pages, Extended Activities, Vocabulary work. Designed to use with 3rd – 4th -5th grades.

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    This product is a Guided Reading resource for the Caldecott book: Snowflake Bentley.

    See description below for more details.

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  • Saint George and the Dragon | Caldecott Book Guided Reading and Response
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    This Reading / Literacy resource offers guided reading questions and journal response activities that will help students enjoy and gain greater appreciation for Saint George and the Dragon, written by Margaret Hodges and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (1985 Caldecott Medal award winning book) During this unit, students will be asked to give opinions, answer factual questions about the story, use critical thinking skills and be creative!

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  • Johnny Appleseed Book Unit
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    21 page resource to use along side the book, Johnny Appleseed

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  • Henry & Mudge under the Yellow Moon Book Unit
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    22 page resource to use with the book, Henry & Mudge under the Yellow Moon

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    This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..

    About the book (Not included):
    Sarah, Plain and Tall was written by Patricia MacLachlan, and the winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal, the 1986 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the 1986 Golden Kite Award. It explores themes of loneliness, abandonment, and coping with change.

    Interest level:
    Grades 4 – 8
    Reading level:
    Grades 2 – 5

     

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  • The Enormous Turnip Book unit
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    22 page resource to use along side the book: The Enormous Turnip

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  • Helping Out Book Unit
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    19 page resource to use along side, Helping Out

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    This Reading / Literacy resource offers guided reading questions and student activities that will help students enjoy and gain greater appreciation for Allen Say’s book, Grandfather’s Journey. (1994 Caldecott Medal award winning book!)
    Designed for 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades.
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  • Guided Reading and Activities - Make Way for Ducklings
    $3.75

    This Reading / Literacy resource offers guided reading questions and student activities that will help students get the most from Robert McCloskey’s book, Make Way for Ducklings. (1942 Caldecott Medal award winning book!)

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  • Mr. Putter and Tabby Fly the Plane
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    21 page resource to use along side the book, Mr. Putter & Tabby Fly the Plane

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    18 page unit to use along side: Watermelon Day.

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    This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..

    About the book (Not included):
    The Whipping Boy is a Newbery medal-winning children’s book by Sid Fleischman, first published in 1986.
    It is the story of a friendship that develops between Prince Brat and his whipping boy, Jemmy, who was forced to take punishments for the prince. Though these boys seem to be complete opposites, they display courage and a willingness to help one another when they are faced with danger.

    Interest level:
    Grades 4 – 8
    Reading level:
    Grades 2 – 5

     

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    This vocabulary and reading comprehension resource is designed to be used with the book Arthur’s Great Big Valentine, written by Lillian Hoban. There are 7 student pages (word scramble, word search, complete the sentences, comprehension questions for written answers plus true/false, and an art-writing activity).

    About the book: This book is a story about friendship. After they have a falling out, Arthur and his best friend Norman make up with very special valentines! Perfect to read in February or anytime of the year.

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  • The Secret Life of Trees
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    20 page resource to use along side the book, The Secret Life of Trees

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    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her Little House series. It is based on a few years of her childhood when the Ingalls lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed, “The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of Little House in the Big Woods“. The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1938.

    Interest Level:
    Grades 3 – 7
    Reading Level:
    Grades 4 – 5
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  • From Seed to Plant Book Unit
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    20 page resource to use along side, From Seed to Plant

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  • The Egg Tree Guided Reading and Journal Response Activities
    $2.25

    This Reading / Literacy resource offers guided reading questions and student journal responses that will help students enjoy and appreciate the book and illustrations of The Egg Tree, written and illustrated (1951 Caldecott Medal) by Katherine Milhous. During this unit, students will be asked to give opinions, answer factual questions about the story, use critical thinking skills and be creative!

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