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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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This generic novel study unit can be used with any book and includes multiple ways to engage students and encourage reading comprehension! It is a great tool to study literature as students focus on literary elements like setting, plot, characterization, conflict, resolution and theme in an interactive way!
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Comprehension and vocabulary activities for the Newbery award-winning novel, The Family Under the Bridge written by Natalie Savage Carlson. This book will expose your students to the hardships of poverty and the power that comes with family. The setting: Christmas time in Paris. (I include this as a Christmas book, but it can be used anytime!)
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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 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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This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
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Out of the Dust is a verse novel by Karen Hesse, first published in 1997 and the recipient of the 1998 Newbery Award. A poem cycle that reads as a novel, Out of the Dust tells the story of a girl named Billie Jo, who struggles to help her family survive the dust-bowl years of the Depression. Fighting against the elements on her Oklahoma farm, Billie Jo takes on even more responsibilities when her mother dies in a tragic accident.
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This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..
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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.
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This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..
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Maniac Magee is a novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and homelessness, it follows the story of an orphan boy looking for a home in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Two Mills. He becomes a local legend for feats of athleticism and fearlessness, and his ignorance of sharp racial boundaries in the town. It is popular in elementary school curricula, and has been used in scholarly studies on the relationship of children to racial identity and reading.Reading level: 5th Grade
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This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters as well as vocabulary activities. (25 pages – Answer Keys provided)
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This stirring and unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated novel is told from the point of view of Ivan himself.
Having spent 27 years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes.
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This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
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The Midwife’s Apprentice is a children’s novel by Karen Cushman. It tells of how a homeless girl becomes a midwife’s apprentice—and establishes a name and a place in the world, and learns to hope and overcome failure. This novel won the John Newbery Medal in 1996.
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This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..
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A Year Down Yonder is a novel by Richard Peck published in 2000 and won the Newbery Medal in 2001.
The Great Depression is finally over in 1937, but times are still hard. Because her parents cannot care for her while they struggle to regain their financial footing back in Chicago, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her Grandma Dowdel in a small town in southern Illinois…
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$2.00Buy NowThis 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.