Sarah, Plain and Tall

This forty-seven page resource for teaching Patricia MacLachlan's 1986  Newbery Medal Winner has eight different components.

• Detailed CHAPTER SUMMARIES written in bulleted format for easy reference.
• PREREADING activities and ideas with a bulletin board suggestion.
• VOCABULARY with word lists, definitions, dictionary activities, and usage worksheets.
• Chapter-by-chapter SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS that require detailed, factual responses.
• A series of OBJECTIVE TESTS that cover the novel as chapter-by-chapter quizzes and as a whole book test and check for basic story comprehension.  Students will find it necessary to read the material carefully and thoroughly for FACTUAL CONTENT in order to score well on these tests.
• THINK, WRITE, CREATE open-ended prompts, both chapter-by-chapter and whole book, that require students to engage the HIGHER LEVELTHINKING SKILLS of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
• GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS for writing based on specific novel events or characters.
• Full ANSWER KEYS.

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This fifteen-page page teaching resource for Patricia MacLachlan's 1986 Newbery Medal Winner has two components.

• Detailed CHAPTER SUMMARIES written in bulleted format for easy reference.
• A series of OBJECTIVE TESTS that check for basic story comprehension. The questions cover the novel as chapter-by-chapter quizzes and as a whole book test. Students will need to read the book carefully and thoroughly for FACTUAL CONTENT in order to score well on these tests.

  Full answers keys are included.

This fifteen page teaching resource for Patricia MacLachlan's 1986 Newbery Medal Winner has three components.

• PREREADING activities and ideas with a bulletin board suggestion  
• VOCABULARY with word lists, definitions, dictionary activities, and usage worksheets.
• Chapter-by-chapter SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS that require detailed, factual responses.

Full answer keys for vocabulary worksheets and short answer questions are included.

This seventeen-page teaching resource has two components.

• Chapter-by-chapter and whole book THINK, WRITE, CREATE open-ended prompts, based on the higher level thinking skills of Bloom's Taxonomy, which  range in difficulty from the most basic to challenges for gifted students.
• A series of GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS for writing based on specific novel events or characters.

This nine-page teaching resource is composed of

• an alphabetized word list
• book-order word lists with definitions
• dictionary skills worksheets
• word usage worksheets
• full answer keys

This thirty-three question multiple choice quiz covers the whole book and checks for basic, FACTUAL comprehension.

Full answer keys are included