A Guide For Using Tuck Everlasting In The Classroom

A guide for teacher's to use when teaching Tuck Everlasing in the classroom.

Tuck Everlasting is the story of the Tucks, a family with eternal life and Winnie, a girl who discovers the family and their secret. This literature unit explores the issues of life, death, friendship and other themes through vocabulary activities, quizzes, and hands on projects and cooperative learning activities. Research ideas and options for evaluation are also included.

Critically acclaimed when it was first published, Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting has become a much-loved, well-studied modern-day classic. This anniversary edition features an in-depth interview conducted by Betsy Hearne in which Natalie Babbitt takes a look at Tuck Everlasting decades later. Now a major motion film available on streaming, featuring stars Alexis Bledel, Ben Kingsley, and Sissy Spacek! What if you could live forever? Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family’s property whose waters grant immortality. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never growing older. But then Winnie must decide whether or not to keep the Tucks’ secret—and whether or not to join them on their never-ending journey. This title has Common Core connections.

Use this guide to follow the enchanting story of a girl who discovers an immortal family, struggling to keep the secret behind their immortality from the rest of the world. This literary instructional guide teaches children how to better analyze and comprehend this story and similar complex literature. Engaging and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities support the Common Core State Standards and incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough, thoughtful readers. These activities and lessons work in conjunction with the literary text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in various ways. Readers will practice close reading, improve text-based vocabulary, and determine meaning through text-dependent questions.

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(Vocal Selections). This 2016 Broadway musical based on the children's novel of the same name by Natalie Babbitt was nominated for a Tony Award and won four Suzi Bass Awards. The vocal selections feature 13 arrangements of vocal lines with piano accompaniment. Songs include: Everlasting * Everything's Golden * Good Girl Winnie Foster * Hugo's First Case * Live like This * My Most Beautiful Day * Partner in Crime * Seventeen * The Story of the Tucks * Time * Top of the World * The Wheel * You Can't Trust a Man.