This product (customizable to your classroom) is ready to use and serves as an engaging and interactive guide to Graham Salisbury's short story--"The Ravine." The product includes one activating strategy, two vocabulary activities, and eight open ended questions (with specific teacher modeled, color-coded strategies on how to use the RACE strategy) This is an ideal lesson to begin your year! These questions introduce inferencing, character motivation, setting, and character traits. The guide is meant to be a follow along to the Google Slideshow also available in my store *Consider the bundle that also includes a student guide, exit ticket, and test review guide!