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Looking for units for Newbery Medal winning novels? This is a complete novel study unit for When You Reach Me. This can be used for guided reading and/or independent novel study in the classroom. *Please see my site for other Newbery Medal novel units by clicking here: Burke BrainstormsThere are specific detailed comprehension questions based on daily reading sections of 15-20 pages, which is usually 3-4 chapters of When You Reach Me. I have included a section at the end with chapter titles a

This packet was designed for the novel Frindle by Andrew Clements. I used it in a 4th/5th grade special education small group reading setting, but it could be used for general education and independent classwork as well. Each page provides the space to draw a picture of something that occurred during the chapter as well as one specific summative question or reflection to complete upon finishing the day's reading. There is an optional rubric page included to simplify the grading process.

Looking for Newbery Medal winning novel units? I created this novel study unit for my 5th grade direct special education language arts class. This can be used for guided reading and/or independent novel study in the classroom. There are specific questions for each and every chapter of the novel Shiloh as well as page numbers provided for student reference in the text. I tried to use a variety of concrete questions as well as predictive and comparative questions. Each set of questions is create

Looking for Newbery Medal winning novel units? I created this novel study unit for my 5th/6th grade mixed ability language arts class. This can be used for guided reading and/or independent novel study in the classroom. I used it in conjunction with a Newbery Medal reading unit. There are specific questions outlined in reading sections of 15-20 pages, which is usuallly 3-4 chapters. I have also included chapter page numbers provided for student reference in the text. I tried to use a variety of

Looking for units for Newbery Medal winning novels? This is a complete novel study unit for Number the Stars. This can be used for guided reading and/or independent novel study in the classroom. *Please see my site for other Newbery Medal novel units by clicking here: Burke BrainstormsThere are specific questions for each and every chapter of the novel Number the Stars, with 3-4 questions per day. I tried to use a variety of concrete questions as well as predictive and comparative questions. E

Looking for classic survival adventure stories? Hatchet is a classic, and just had its 30th anniversary publication recently!! This novel unit can be used for guided reading and/or independent novel comprehension checks in the classroom. I used it in conjunction with a Newbery Medal reading unit. (see other novel projects on my page with similar layouts and types of questions!) There are specific questions for each and every chapter of the novel Hatchet, with 3-4 questions per day as well as pag

Hello Universe Chapter Titles Activity with Answer Key. Erin Entrada Kelly chose unique titles for the 40+ chapters of her 2018 Newbery Award winning novel. Each chapter had a unique title that related to the story. In this activity, students will have to fill in a worksheet with the reason why the author chose the title that she did and how it relates to the plot of the story. A teacher ANSWER KEY is included.

These notes and quick help sheet can be used for teaching and reinforcing the concepts of mean, median, mode, and range. Two classroom based examples are laid out and provided in order for you to gather data with your class and work through problems together (either as an overhead activity or with handouts).