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Proven Teaching Units, Lesson Plans and Work Books for Novels
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following publications are available on this page
Reading With
Curious George
Reading
With Roald Dahl
Reading
With Ramona
Reading with Barbara Smucker
Reading
With Jerry Spinelli
Reading
With Eric Walters
The
Holocaust
Ten
Timeless Classics
More
Timeless Classics
Simply Shakespeare
War
and Conflict
Courage and Survival
Classroom
Drama from Classic Literature
Science
Fiction or Fantasy?
A Cordial Invite
from the Masters of Fright!!
The Revolutionary War
The
Stories of Patricia Polacco
Six
of the Best (Newbery Medal Winners)
The
Novel Approach:
Canadian History Books 1,2,3
This is a
unit for grades 1-3 about the stories about
Curious George, the little monkey created by H. A. Rey. The unit
includes activity sheets for ten specific novels, generic sheets for any
novel about Curious George and a series of twenty-four activity cards
for language arts, creative writing and art.
Also included are suggestions for teaching the unit, a rubric for
evaluation and tracking sheets. (98 pages)
Novels are: Curious George...And the Puppies,Rides a Bike, Gets a Medal, Takes a
Job, Goes to School, Visits the
Library, At the Baseball game, Goes
Camping, Feeds the Animals
Roald Dahl's writing, with its cheeky attitude towards relations between
children and adults, is popular with children who appreciate its sly
humor. This unit contains short novel studies of seven of his
novels, together with a set of activity cards for vocabulary
development, grammar and punctuation, creative writing, elements of the
novel and integrated activities that can be used with any of his novels.
Also included are suggestions for using the unit, tracking sheets, a
rubric for evaluation and an answer key.
Novels are:George's Marvelous Medicine, The
Twits, Esio Trot, The Witches, Matilda, Theg BFG, and Danny, Champion of
the World. (86 pages)
Reading
with Ramona
(Novels by
Beverley Cleary) for
grades 4 - 6 This unit
uses eight novels about Ramona Quimby by Beverley Cleary. The collection
begins with Ramona at nursery school and ends with her beginning the
fourth grade.
Ramona's adventures have been favorites with young readers and they
easily identify with the problems she encounters.
The unit contains short novels studies for the eight novels, a series of
activity cards to be used with any of the novels, together with
suggestions for using the unit, evaluation and an answer key. (98 pages)
A series of activity cards for language arts, research and art to be used
with six novels by Barbara Smucker. The novels used are: Amish
Adventure, Underground to Canada, White Mist, Days of Terror, Jacob's Little
Giant and Incredible Jumbo.
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Reading
With Jerry Spinelli
This unit for grades
7-8-9, uses the novels of author,
Jerry Spinelli to teach comprehension, grammar, punctuation, creative writing,
research skills, art and drama.
Jerry Spinelli's novels appeal
to adolescents through their realism and humor. They are particularly
recommended for students who show little enthusiasm for reading. The unit
includes a teacher's resource package, novel studies for five novels and
activity cards that can be used with any of Jerry Spinelli's novels.
(86 pages) Novels are:
Maniac Magee, Crash, There's a Girl in my Hammerlock, Who Put That Hair in my
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Reading
With Eric Walters
This unit for Grades
6-8, uses the novels of author, Eric
Walters to teach comprehension, grammar, punctuation, creative writing,
research skills, art and drama.
The unit consists of short studies for seven novels and a series of activity
cards that can be used with any Eric Walters' novels. Also included are
suggestions for using the unit, rubrics for evaluation and an answer key. Eric
Walters' novels are realistic, often using a blend of fictional and historical
characters. These included in the unit range from the biographical Ricky,
to the historical Trapped in Ice. (85 pages)
Novels are:Camp X,
Northern Exposure, War of the Eagles, Stars, Ricky, Trapped in Ice, Run.
Includes:
The Boy in Striped
Pyjamas, I Have Lived a Thousand Years, What World is Left, Surviving
Hitler, Daniel's Story, Behind the Bedroom Wall, In My Enemies House.
This
unit written for Grades
6-9
consists of activities for historical novels, autobiographies and
biographies. These vary in content and due to the subject
matter descriptions are very graphic.
There are comprehension activities for each book, a section called Thinking
About What You Have Read, and a list of activities ranging from
mapping skills to creative writing, plus a selection of activity cards
that can be used with any novel or biography.
Also included are suggestions for teaching the unit, tracking sheets, a
rubric for evaluation with an evaluation sheet, and answer keys to the
comprehension activities. (104 pages)
Includes: Treasure
Island, Little Women, Oliver Twist, Black Beauty, The
Time Machine, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table,
The Three Musketeers, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,
Tom Sawyer and Jane Eyre.
The novels have been selected to give a wide
variety of authors and themes.
The unit consists of detailed activities for ten specific novels and
one generic plan that can be used for any novel. The activities can
be used with complete and abridged versions of the novel.
For each novel there is a list of main characters and an outline of
the plot. Comprehension work at two levels, and activities. Grades
6-9 (110 pages)
This unit, written for grades
6-9, contains more of the classics of literature: The
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince and the Pauper, A Tale of Two
Cities, Around the World in Eighty days, The Count of Monte Christo
and The Mutiny on the Bounty. The novels provide a
wide variety of themes and settings. Mutiny on the
Bounty is the autobiographical version written by William Bligh.
Included in the unit are vocabulary lists and a range of
comprehension questions for each novel, and a collection of activity
cards for creative writing, word study, grammar research art and
drama. (59 pages)
This unit for Grades 7-9 is intended to introduce students to to the life
and plays of William Shakespeare using a series of activities that include
research, discussion and drama.
Included in the unit are information sheets on life in Elizabethan times,
activities to explain to students the language and plays of Shakespeare
and a series of activity cards for independent or group work.
Also includes teaching suggestions, a list of resources and evaluation
sheets. (70 pages)
War
and Conflict This unit for Grades
7-9, uses novels written for children and young adults to show the
reality of war and its impact on both children and adults.
Included in the unit are worksheets
on plot, setting and characterization, twelve individual novel studies,
activity cards that can be used with any novel, record and tracking sheets,
suggestions for using the unit and a list of novels on the topic of war.
Includes: Summer
of my German Soldier, Johnny Tremain, The Red Badge of Courage, Hockey Bat
Harris, My Brother Sam is Dead, The Fighting Ground, A Question of
Loyalty, 1812-Jeremy and the General, The Spy in the Shadows, The
290, Turn Homeward Hannalee Although the topic is war,
the overall theme of the novels studied is that of achieving understanding
and solving disagreements through peaceful methods. (70 pages)
This unit written for grades 6 - 9,
uses novels to show how people have shown great courage to survive
catastrophes in their lives.
The novels used are set in time periods from the Eighteenth to the
Twentieth Centuries and tell of surviving an epidemic, a shipwreck, a
plane crash, war and its aftermath and a volcanic explosion.
The unit consists of novel studies for seven novels, work sheets for
comprehension, activities involving creative writing, research, history,
geography, art and drama. Also included are a set of activity cards
that can be used for any novel pertaining to this topic. The unit
also contains suggestions for using the novels, evaluation sheets, a list
of other novels that could be used and an answer key. (75
pages)
Includes: Robinson Crusoe, Fever 1793, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The
Cay, After the War, Hatchet, Memory Boy.
This workbook contains
scripts adapted from four classic short stories together with various
activities to be completed after reading the scripts. Also
included are suggestions for using the unit, tracking sheets, rubrics
for evaluation, peer and self evaluation sheets and a complete answer
key. (60 pages)
The stories are: The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Purloined Letter,
The Monkey's Paw.
The unit for
grades 6 - 9
consists of short studies of
novels written in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century
by authors such as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Mary Shelley.
Such novels are considered classics and were probably considered fantasy
at the time of their writing, but some are now considered the forerunners
of today's science fiction. Students are asked to consider in
which
genre they would put them.
The unit also contains a series of activity cards that can be used with
any novel, suggestions for using the unit, evaluation sheets and an answer
key. (63 pages)
Includes: War of the Worlds, Frankenstein,
Portrait of Dorian Gray, The Time Machine, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea, The Invisible Man.
The unit for grades
7-10 consists of a selection of poems and short stories to be read,
dramatized and presented by the students. Students also have the
opportunity to write their own hair-raising story.
Included are:
The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service, To Build a Fire by
Jack London, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, The
Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs, An Ocurrence at Owl Creek
Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, The Lottery by Shirley
Jackson, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington
Irving.
This unit for grades 4 - 6,
contains nine historical novels that give background knowledge of life
during the Revolutionary War. The novels range in reading and
interest levels. (99 pages)
Novels are:
Changes for Felicity, Give me Liberty, George Washington's Sock, Hope's
Crossing, Thomas, Toliver's Secret, The Secret Soldier, The Riddle of Pencroft
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The
Stories of Patricia Polacco This unit, written for grades 2 - 4,
contains activities for seven of
Patricia Polacco's novels. The theme of many of her novels stresses
how the characters face up to and overcome problems in their lives.
The activities include vocabulary and word study, various method of story
mapping, comprehension, expressing opinions, creative writing, grammar and
art.
The Keeping Quilt, Thunder Cake, Mrs. Katz and
Tush, Chicken Sunday, Thank You Mr. Falker,
The Bee Tree, Mrs. Mack.
(65 pages)
This unit is written to introduce
students in Grades 4-6 to novels that have
been awarded the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature.
The six novels selected are:
Shiloh
by
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Bridge
to Terabit by Katherine Patterson Sarah,
Plain and Tall by Patricia Maclachlan The
Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli Dear
Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary Rabbit
Hill by Robert Lawson These novels provide a wide variety of themes, settings,
genres and writing styles.
Student work consists of word
study, comprehension, creative writing, research, art and drama activities
to accompany each novel.
Also included are suggestions
for using the unit, tracking sheets, evaluation sheets and a comprehensive
answer key. (105 pages)
The
Novel Approach:
Book 1 Canadian History from 1670-1837 This
unit for Grades 7 - 8
contains historical novels that tell of the life in New France, the
contributions of the voyageurs, the immigration of the Loyalists, the lives of
immigrants from Europe, the War of 1812, living in the city of York and the 1837
rebellion in Upper Canada (100 pages)
Novels are: The King's Daughter, Another Shore,
The Broken Blade, Escape: The Adventures of a Loyalist Family, Death Over
Montreal, Fire Ship, The Bully Boys, The Boy With an R in his Hand, To hang a
Rebel, Rebellion.
The
Novel Approach:
Book 2 Canadian History from 1866 to
1910 This unit for Grades
7 - 8 contains novels
that tell of the events leading to Confederation, The Riel Rebellions, the
Klondike gold rush, building the Trans Canada Railway, and the lives of new
immigrants to Canada. (105 pages)
Novels are:
Spy in the Shadows, A Ribbon of Shining Steel, Soldier Boys, Battle Cry of
Batoche, The Shanty Men of Cache Lake, The Secret of Sentinel Rock, Gold Fever
Trail, Jason's Gold, Anne of Green Gables, The Shacklands.
The
Novel Approach:
Book 3 Canadian History from 1910 to
1936
This unit for Grades 7 - 8
contains novels that tell of the First World war, the extreme drought in the
prairie provinces and the effects of the Great Depression on rural and urban
communities in Canada. (93 pages)
Novels are:
Home Child, Charlie Wilcox, The Hydrofoil Mystery, After the Dancing Days,A Prairie as Wide as the Sea,
Summer of the Mad Monk,Blaines
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