An Instructional Guide For Literature Little Bear

Use this guide to spend some time with Little Bear and discover what he yearns for most in these lighthearted short stories. Early readers will learn to analyze these short stories through the rigorous yet engaging activities provided in this instructional guide for literature. Analyzing story elements in multiple ways, practicing close reading and text-based vocabulary, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will gain from this guide. Encourage your readers to want to dig deeper with this must-have resource.

Spend some time with Little Bear and Mother Bear as they wait for Father Bear to return home. Young readers will enjoy completing these fun activities and lessons based on these delightful short stories about family. This resource is filled with tools and tactics that will help students comprehend and analyze story elements, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more. Strengthen your students' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!

Little Bear is hungry, so his mother shows him what bears eat. Pair this illustrated fiction title with its nonfiction companion book about food chains, What Eats What.

These leveled discussion questions about Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.

These post-reading activities for Little Bear allow students to share their understanding of characters, plots, and settings of the short stories in the book. They have opportunities to write, draw, and perform based on what they've learned.

These vocabulary activities for three popular children's books incorporate key skills from the Common Core. The activities integrate vocabulary with a study of the texts. Includes text-dependent questions, definitions, and text-based sentences.

Students analyze three children's books using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.

The Hunger Games: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides lesson plans and activities for this popular Young Adult fiction novel. This valuable resource guides teachers with ways to add rigor with complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the text with higher-order thinking skills, with lessons focused on story elements, vocabulary, and more. Close reading activities throughout the literature units encourages students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages to respond more critically. With various methods of assessing comprehension, this instructional guide offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build a greater understanding of this great literary work.