Description

Touching Spirit Bear Novel Study Guide for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades is a 148-page resource with comprehension tests, worksheets, a vocabulary study, and thinking and writing activities for teaching Ben Mikaelsen’s popular novel. This unit has 7 different instructional components.

Touching Spirit Bear Novel Study Guide components:

•First, detailed CHAPTER SUMMARIES written in bulleted format provide quick reference when teaching the novel from year to year.

•PREREADING activities and ideas with a bulletin board suggestion give students a foundation for more enjoyable reading.

•VOCABULARY with word lists, definitions, dictionary activities, and worksheets open new words for readers.

•Chapter-by-chapter SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS that require detailed, factual responses encourage careful reading.

•A series of OBJECTIVE TESTS cover the novel as chapter-by-chapter quizzes as well as a whole book test and check for basic story comprehension.

•THINK, WRITE, CREATE open-ended prompts, both chapter-by-chapter and whole book, require students to engage HIGHER LEVEL THINKING SKILLS.

•GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS for writing, based on specific novel events or characters, help improve organization and composition skills.
•Finally, full ANSWER KEYS for those items requiring specific responses are included.