Touching Spirit Bear
This one hundred forty-eight page resource for teaching Ben Mikaelsen’s popular story 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 LEVEL THINKING SKILLS of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
- GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS for writing based on specific novel events or characters.
- Full ANSWER KEYS.
The contents of this teaching pack are designed for alignment with US Common Core Standards.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: The Novel Teaching Pack described above contains ALL of the material available in each of the following purchase options. Individual components are offered for those customers who do not wish to purchase the full Teaching Pack. Please do not unintentionally duplicate your order.
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This sixty-four page teaching resource 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. This file also contains 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 ANSWER KEYS are included.
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This thirty-nine page resource has three components:
- PREREADING activities and ideas with a bulletin board suggestion
- VOCABULARY with word lists, definitions, dictionary activities, and usage worksheets. This section also contains a study of figurative language taken from the story.
- Chapter-by-chapter SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS that require detailed, factual responses.
Full ANSWER KEYS for vocabulary worksheets and short answer questions are included.
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This forty-seven page 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.
Many of the activities from these two components address elements of literature such as theme, conflict, setting, etc. as well as character analysis and vocabulary development.
Suggested answer keys for some activities included.
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This twenty-five page resource is composed of
- an alphabetized word list with page numbers
- book-order word lists with definitions and page numbers
- dictionary skills worksheets
- word usage worksheets
- figurative language worksheets (excerpts taken from the story)
- full answer keys
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This series of short answer questions covers the book in one to three chapter sets of ten items each and encourage careful reading for FACTUAL RESPONSES.
Full answer keys are included.
Ten total pages.
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This whole book test is a set of fifty multiple choice questions. Students will find it necessary to read the book thoroughly and carefully in order to score well on this quiz, which requires FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE of the novel's plot, events, characters, etc.
Please note that this test does NOT ADDRESS STORY INTREPRETATION or ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE. It does, however, offer a reliable indication of student effort and comprehension of the material.
NOTE: If you have bought TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR: A NOVEL TEACHING PACK or TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR: CHAPTER SUMMARIES/OBJECTIVE TESTS, you already own the material in this file. Please do not unintentionally duplicate your purchase.
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