For example, after reading chapter one, we have students complete a chart in which they examine the characters.
We went through each chapter searching for one or the other and outlining what our activities would be like. When we were writing our Common Core lesson plans for Sarah, Plain and Tall, my colleague and I wanted to make sure we had both activities that would help us examine the author’s craft and analyze literary elements.
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Read on for the ideas, and make sure you click the link below to download FREE printables to help you teach this novel! Sarah, Plain and Tall is an award-winning novel, and we’ve got the following free Common Core lesson plans from our Sarah, Plain and Tall novel unit. ( click here to download this handout!) This mini-project can be completed with ease and helps to review an important ELA standard! Print these two handouts for chapters fifteen and sixteen as well as chapter nineteen and a portion of a test by clicking here for our sample packet for Tuck Everlasting. We provide our students with a a handout to review seven common types of propaganda. We can’t pass up the opportunity to review propaganda after the man in the yellow suit reveals his plan to sell the water! We have our students help create an advertisement for the water. Here is another activity that we include in our free Tuck Everlasting lesson plans. Then, they look at three examples of irony from chapters fifteen and sixteen, identify the type of irony the author used, and finally they record an explanation for why the passage is ironic. We give them a handout (this handout is in the packet you can download below) that reviews the three types of irony, situational, verbal, and dramatic. We are sharing the handouts that we use for the chapters we are mentioning.Īfter our students finish reading chapter sixteen, we have them analyze irony. Read on for some of our free Tuck Everlasting lesson plans for this novel. This fun-loving fantasy novel is a student favorite. In our classrooms, we LOVE to use Tuck Everlasting as a literature circle choice! In this post, you can print some of our free Tuck Everlasting lesson plans and handouts! If you enjoy this free sample, consider downloading our entire teaching unit for Small Steps. We offer bonus points to our students if they jot the allusion down and place it in our “Novel Finds” box! Print these two handouts for chapters three and seventeen as well as a portion of a test for chapters 1-12 by clicking here for our sample packet for Small Steps. Finally, students are encouraged to be on the lookout for other examples of allusions as they complete the novel.
Then, they look at some passages from the chapter and identify the allusions. Students receive a handout that explains this literary device. This allows students to gain a little understanding of Ginny’s disability.Īfter chapter seventeen, we take a look at allusion. Once this analysis is complete, students read an informational passage on cerebral palsy. …A few neighborhood kids called her spaz, and retard, but most treated her with respect because she was a friend of Armpit’s and because she was willing to answer their questions. After reading chapter three of Small Steps, we have students analyze Ginny and Armpit by taking a close look at this passage: We would like to share a couple of our activities or lesson plans for the novel Small Steps.
In our classrooms, we use this novel as a choice for book clubs, or as some call them, literature circles. Your students will not want to stop reading this awesome story! They will learn that doing the right thing is never a wrong choice doing the right thing is a small step in the right direction. Scroll down to print free lesson plans for the novel Small Steps. Small Steps by Louis Sachar is a story of loyalty and friendship.
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