Freckle Juice Teacher Guide

Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.

Andrew wants freckles more than anything else, so Sharon offers to sell him her secret freckle recipe. When Andrew turns green and blue from the brew, it's doubtful he'll ever wish for freckles again. Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Introduce students to this classic story about a boy, Andrew, who will try anything to get just one freckle! Young readers will be intrigued and eager to analyze Andrew's struggle and determination to develop freckles in this humorous story by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature. This guide is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this playful story. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities 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.

"Curriculum connections, vocabulary, unit tests, critical thinking"--Cover.

In this Novel Study guide, introduce students to a gullible boy who will believe anything to get what he wants. Andrew wanted freckles like his classmate, Nicky. He was desperate enough to pay Sharon for a secret recipe for freckle juice. The disastrous result provides Andrew with a valuable lesson—and a new respect for his teacher! This unit contains story summary, author biography, objectives, chapter questions, vocabulary and follow-up activities. This resource is meant to introduce the author, Judy Blume, and her writing; to check the students' comprehension of the story; to allow the reader to relate to and critically explore personal and social issues; to develop empathy for characters; to allow the student to communicate his or her knowledge of the text by providing situations for creative thought and writing; to develop and increase the student's knowledge of vocabulary in meaningful and entertaining ways, and to make technological links to literature.

"Includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary-building ideas, and cross-curricular activites"--Publisher's web site.

Excerpts of famous scenes with kid-friendly explanatory notes, plus easy activities.