Novel Literature Kits
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Because of Winn-Dixie Lit Kit
$14.99 Add to cartStudents learn of loss and longing, loneliness and friendship, and finding contentment and a place for oneself. Our resource is a useful tool to write, discuss, assess, and challenge all learners. Students write the meaning of vocabulary words from the book in their own words. Using multiple choice, choose the best answer that describes how certain events in the story took place. Infer the meaning of certain character actions towards Opal. Students put themselves into Opal’s shoes to understand her state of mind when Winn-Dixie is missing. Write a chapter for a nonfiction tour book about the town of Naomi, Florida. Use a fishbone organizer to keep track of different aspects of the characters, setting and resolution from the novel.
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Underground to Canada Lit Kit
$14.99 Add to cartUnderstand the importance of freedom and what lengths people will go to achieve it.
Our comprehensive resource saves time with useful and detailed activities in a range of styles, from vocabulary, multiple choice and short answer questions. Imagine what the story would be like if it was set today, and better understand the issues that would cause two girls to run away. Become familiar with Julilly and her family with true or false questions. Identify which character said the provided statements. Rewrite the story with a third child taken on the journey. Draw Julilly and Liza’s journey on a map. Aligned to your State Standards, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
About the Novel:
A sensitive and dramatic story about a young girl’s escape from slavery. Julilly is taken away from her mammy by a ruthless slave trader and is sold to the Riley Plantation. Sims oversees all the slaves and is very abusive toward them. If the slaves don’t produce, obey rules or try to run away, he will whip them as punishment. She longs for the day when her and her friend Liza are free and can live in peace. Julilly meets a young Canadian ornithologist named Alexander Ross who helps four slaves escape through the Underground Railroad north to Canada. Julilly, her friend Liza, Lester and Adam travel following the North Star to freedom. - Grade Assigned
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Lit Kit
$14.99 Add to cartUnderstand how to overcome one’s poor situation with kindness and a positive attitude. Help students gain a better understanding of the book so they can really enjoy reading it. Test critical and creative thinking skills by conducting a character study of Willy Wonka before even reading about him. Gain a sense of Charlie’s hardships with tailored true or false questions. Discuss the pros and cons of having a No-Gum policy at school before getting together for a class debate. Invent your own chocolate bar with a list of ingredients, a slogan and commercial. Create an acrostic poem puzzle for a partner to solve using unique words from the book. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom’s Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: Who would believe that Charlie Bucket’s life would take such an unusual turn? Charlie and his family are very poor, and food is never in abundance. The world is on a frenzy trying to find one of the five Golden Tickets. By getting one of these tickets, the winner will visit the inside of the mysterious Mr. Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Charlie finds a dollar bill and buys himself a chocolate bar that contains the last Golden Ticket. Along with four other children, they visit the factory and meet up with the Oompa-Loompas who are the hard workers of the factory. At last, Mr. Wonka tells Charlie that he has won the whole factory, and the brave and true Charlie and his family will never starve again.
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To Kill a Mockingbird Lit Kit
$14.99 Add to cartExperience prejudice during the Great Depression in this classic example of modern American literature.
Great for mature lower level readers, offering grade-appropriate vocabulary and comprehension activities. Students are asked to describe what they already know about life during the Great Depression. Describe the light and dark imagery surrounding the scene out front of the jail. Describe the editorial by Mr. Underwood, and explain why the characters compare his death to that of a songbird. Complete sentences from the story with their missing vocabulary words. Explore the choice of having Scout act as narrator in the story, and what advantages and disadvantages come with first person point of view. Analyze the character of Atticus by using a T-Chart for match characteristics with proof from the text. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom’s Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
About the Novel:
To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a young girl and her family living in Maycomb, Alabama during the Depression. Six-year-old Scout Finch lives with her older brother Jem, and lawyer father Atticus. Scout and Jem befriend a boy named Dill who stays with his aunt each summer. The three children become fascinated with their neighbor, Boo Radley, who stays hidden in his home. One summer, Atticus is appointed by the court to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping a young white woman. Atticus receives much disapproval from the townspeople, which leads to Scout, Jem and Dill saving their father and Tom from an angry mob. - Grade Assigned
Paper Bag Princess Lit Kit
$14.99 Add to cartDon’t judge a Prince by his clothing in this fairy tale.
Students become engaged in the novel by discussing the reactions of its characters. Identify the vowel sounds from vocabulary words found in the story. Correct a set of sentences with their missing capital letters. Identify statements from the book as true or false. Students put themselves in Elizabeth’s shoes and decide what they would have done to outwit the dragon. As a newspaper reporter, think of five questions to ask Princess Elizabeth and Prince Ronald about their ordeal with the dragon. Come up with things to change about the story, things not to change, and things to add with a Story Makeover graphic organizer. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom’s Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
About the Novel:
This is the story of Princess Elizabeth, who is in love with Prince Ronald. They plan to soon marry. One day, a terrible dragon smashes Elizabeth?s castle, burns her clothes and disappears with her Prince Ronald. Everything is burnt, so she wears a paper bag and sets off to go get him. She outwits the dragon by challenging him. Exhausted by all the activity, the dragon falls fast asleep. Elizabeth steps over the dragon, goes into the cave and rescues Prince Ronald. Astonished by his reaction, she tells him his clothes are pretty and his hair is tidy, but in fact he?s a bum. They don?t get married after all. - Grade Assigned
Of Mice and Men Lit Kit
$14.99 Add to cartLearn about life during the Great Depression while learning about friendship, survival and prejudice.
Our versatile resource allows large group interaction or independent work as an assessment. Become familiar with tricky words from the novel prior to reading by using them in a sentence. We include examples from the text that show characters exploiting the weaknesses of others. Draw a picture of George’s ideal piece of land as he describes it to Lennie and Candy. Imagine the story taking place today, and rewrite the beginning to reflect this change. List the essential themes of the novel on a bindle organizer. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom’s Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
About the Novel:
Of Mice and Men, written by Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck, is the controversial novella by John Steinbeck that follows two migrant workers as they look for work during the Great Depression. Located in California, ranch workers George Milton and Lennie Small move on to look for work. George is lean and intelligent, while Lennie is large and strong. The pair share a dream of one day owning their own land. Lennie’s part of the dream is to be able to touch soft rabbits, as he likes to touch soft things. George and Lennie find themselves on a ranch with Candy, an old-aged ranch hand and Slim. Candy offers to give $350 for George and Lennie to buy their land if Candy can live with them. Unfortunate events at the ranch make sure that dream never takes place. - Grade Assigned
The Mouse and the Motorcycle Lit Kit
$14.99 Add to cartEnjoy this tale of friendship and adventure, a new take on family vacations.
Get your students thinking and predicting with the use of before and after you read questions. Answer opinion questions to set up the reading. Understand difficult words that will be used in the book. Use proof from the novel to find out why Ralph liked motorcycles so much. Students describe an exciting adventure they were a part of. Create new idioms like “quiet as a mouse”. Identify problems Keith encounters in a flow chart, leading to how he solves each problem. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom’s Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
About the Novel:
Meet Ralph, the perky and reckless mouse that lives at Mountain View Inn. Vacationing boy Keith Gridley brings out his motorcycle, and through the mouse hole, Ralph falls in love with it. They become friends and share the motorcycle. Ralph gets into many entertaining situations. While on an errand to find an aspirin for his sick friend, Ralph gets caught by two teachers. Eventually Ralph escapes and finds an aspirin, which he brings to Keith. Now that Keith’s family’s vacation is coming to an end, he wants to bring Ralph home with him. Ralph, however, wants to stay at the Inn, since this is his home. Keith gives his motorcycle to Ralph to enjoy as the two part ways. - Grade Assigned
Island of Blue Dolphins Lit Kit
$14.99 Add to cartGet a detailed account of what it takes to survive alone on a dangerous island with this tale based on a true story.
Add variety and differentiation with true or false, multiple choice and short answer questions. Put events in order as they occurred between the Aleuts and Karana’s tribe. Brainstorm what Karana could have done in preparation for the Aleut’s departure. Study vocabulary words found in the reading by using a dictionary to match words to their synonyms. Identify which character did the provided actions. Create a menu using only food that Karana has available on the island. Imagine what it’s like to live alone for 18 years and write Karana a letter of encouragement. Aligned to your State Standards, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
