Activities and Handouts for A Child Called "IT"

Enclosed you will find activities and handouts for teaching the memoir A Child Called IT by David Pelzer. There are 80 pages and a 22 slide PowerPoint in this packet.

I have found that even my reluctant readers really get into this book. It is one of the few books that every student will want to read and many will finish it before you ask them to.

Included are:

✤ 22 slide PowerPoint Presentation about Child Abuse

✤ Background Information about Child Abuse

✤ Test Your Knowledge About Child Abuse Quiz (answer key included)

✤ Study Guide Questions for the entire book (answer key included)

✤ Vocabulary Words with definitions for each chapter

✤ Before and After Handout

✤ Poems and lyrics that relate to the book

✤ Discipline or Abuse Handout

✤ 10 Question Quiz on the first 3 chapters with the answer key (Fill in and True/False)

✤ 40 Question Unit Test with the answer key (Fill in, Matching, True/False and Multiple Choice)

✤ Chapter Summaries (Either for your reference or to give to your students for a review)

✤ Word Search

✤Task Cards for the memoir

✤ Characterization Webs

✤ Projects with Presentation Rubric

The common core places a lot of emphasis on non-fiction books. This is one non-fiction book that the students will enjoy. It is graphic in nature but I have yet to meet a student who didn't enjoy this book. In fact, my students are often disappointed that there isn't a film version. I have however shown my students clips from the film Mommy Dearest and compared the abuse in that film with the abuse in A Child Called IT.

Check out the preview. If you have any questions just ask.

This product is also included in my Middle School English Language Arts Bundle listed here:

Middle School English Language Arts Bundle

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