An Instructional Guide For Literature The Dark Is Rising

Use this guide to introduce students to this award-winning story and encourage them to analyze Will's journey to defeat the dark. This instructional guide for literature is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this sensational story. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities were written to support this story and incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. These lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more.

These leveled discussion questions about The Dark Is Rising require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.

Students analyze The Dark Is Rising 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.

These assessment questions for The Dark Is Rising are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.

These assessment questions for The Dark Is Rising are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.

These vocabulary activities for The Dark Is Rising incorporate key skills from the Common Core. The activities integrate vocabulary with a study of the text. Includes text-dependent questions, definitions, and text-based sentences.

YA. An eleven-year-old boy searches for six magical signs in order to save the world from the threatening evil of the Dark.

Looking for ways to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature? Students will be engaged as they analyze this Newbery Honor and Carnegie Medal Honor Book about a boy's journey to defeat dark forces. The Dark Is Rising: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides engaging activities that incorporate the following research-based literacy skills: close reading tasks; text-based vocabulary practice; cross-curricular activities; text-dependent questions; reader response writing prompts; leveled comprehension questions; story elements comprehension tasks; diverse and relevant assessments. Strengthen your students' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!