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$9.00Buy NowThis is an in-depth novel study of Louis Sachar’s Holes in which students will delve into literary elements of the book, analyze various topics and themes, write arguments and opinions, conduct research and more! This unit is designed for advanced 6th-8th graders and High School students.
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$3.00Buy NowComprehension 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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$3.00Buy NowLois Lowry’s Newberry Award winning book, Number the Stars, is a classic and a wonderful book to use to ‘delve deeper.’ This resource of book activities has been designed to do just that!
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$3.75Buy NowThis 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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$1.50Buy NowThis product is a Guided Reading resource for the Caldecott book: Snowflake Bentley.
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$1.50Buy NowThis resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
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By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder published in 1939, the fifth 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 1940.Interest Level: Grades 4 – 7 Reading Level: Grades 4 -6 -
$1.50Buy NowThis resource offers reading comprehension questions about each book in the series.
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My First Little House on the Prairie books are designed especially for early readers and are adaptations of the original Little House series which feature simpler storylines and events from the books, formatted like a picture book. Age Group: 3 – 8 years -
$2.50Buy NowThis 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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$1.50Buy NowThis resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
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Peter Hatcher’s summer is not looking good. First of all, Peter’s brother Fudge—the five-year-old human hurricane–has a plan: to marry Peter’s sworn enemy, Sheila Tubman. Disgusting! Could anything be worse? Yes! Because Peter’s parents have decided to rent a summer house next door to the Tubman’s. Which means Peter will be stuck with Fudge and Sheila the Cootie Queen for three whole weeks! -
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Little House in the Big Woods was Laura Ingall’s Wilder’s first book published and it inaugurated her Little House series. It is based on memories of her early childhood in the Big Woods near Pepin, Wisconsin, in the early 1870s.Interest: Grades 4 – 8 Reading Level: Grades 4 – 5 -
$1.50Buy Now22 page resource to use with the book, Henry & Mudge under the Yellow Moon
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$2.00Buy NowThis 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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Grades 5 – 8Reading level:
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$2.00Buy NowThis 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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Grades 4 – 8Reading level:
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$1.25Buy NowThis resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
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Any fan of Fudge knows that he never does anything halfway. And so it should come as no surprise that when he discovers the value of money, he goes whole hog, making his own “Fudge Bucks,” and thumbing through catalogs to choose his birthday presents years in advance. His older brother Peter, who’s just starting 7th grade, finds it all highly embarrassing, as usual. A wild and wacky beginning to a new school year.
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$2.00Buy NowThis 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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$2.00Buy NowThis 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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$2.00Buy NowThis 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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Grades 4 – 8Reading level:
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$2.00Buy NowThis 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…
Interest level: Grades 4 – 8 Reading level: Grades 4 – 8
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