Description

Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of our engaging Island of the Blue Dolphins activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson planning journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This novel study includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of lessons. Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns it to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.

To make your digital experience smooth, we include instructions (w/ screenshots!) of how to download and organize your resources in Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. We’ve added Google Forms versions of each activity that auto-corrects their responses using a suggested answer key (which you can adjust afterward or modify your answer key) and compiles grades into a spreadsheet with learners’ names and class periods to make things easier for you to grade all in one place (some types of question aren’t able to auto-grade, though, because of the short-answer format).

TEXT: ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS by Scott O’Dell
LEVEL: 4th-8th
TOTAL: 235+ slides/forms
→ Pacing Guide and Answer Keys included

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Save $$$ and buy the bundle. → → → Print Version → → → Digital-only Version → → → Combo Version

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WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS LITERATURE RESOURCE
♥ This is the best thing I have ever purchased from TpT! It is so organized and easy to navigate.  Every activity is purposeful and pushes students’ thinking. I love the day-by-day activity planner and the standards that are included for each piece.  Thank you!!
♥ Easy to use and engaged my students.  Love that the planning is there for me, but I can tweek it to my own specifications!
♥ Best products out there! Love the youtube channel as well. Very helpful!
♥ I’ve enjoyed working with this resource in preparing our unit study which begins tomorrow.  I especially like the writing responses for each chapter. Thanks for an excellent resources!
♥ Thank you for creating such a time saving activity!
♥ This is a one stop shop.  I loved all of it… especially the videos.  Thank you!

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LITERATURE PLAN CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards
→ Easy to differentiate for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped

★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity (→ print : → digital)
– answer thematic questions to get learners thinking about the novel
– 14-slide engaging activity
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc (→ print : → digital)
– analyze the 6 parts of the plot
– 2-slide analyzer
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict (→ print : → digital)
– analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 2-slide analyzer
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Characters Analyzer (→ print : → digital)
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 6-slide analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3

★ Figurative Language Instructional Slideshow (→ print : → digital)
– We set out to make the most helpful, most compelling, most graphically attractive teaching resource for you to introduce your learners to all the various figurative language. This 70+ slide
Slideshow will help you introduce how every many you need to teach your level of learners.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

★ Figurative Language Bundle (→ print : → digital)
– analyze and complete 39 figures of speech specific to the novel
– 14-slide bundle (3 parts)
– Similes vs. Metaphors
– Figurative Language Analysis
– Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Analogies, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Puns, Allusion
– answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

★ Grammar – Commas in a Series (→ print : → digital)
– Using examples from the novel, learners will study commas used in a series (list). They will learn to locate the lists in the sentences and use appropriate commas.
– 2-slide/form activity practicing the commas in a series using examples
– answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2

★ Grammar – Commas w/ Introductory Elements (→ print : → digital)
– Using examples from the novel, learners will study commas used with introductory elements at the beginnings of sentences. They will learn to locate the introductory elements in the sentences and use appropriate commas.
– 2-slide/form activity practicing the commas w/ introductory elements using examples
– answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2

★ Grammar – Commas w/ Direct Address (→ print : → digital)
– Using examples from the novel, learners will study commas used with direct address. They will learn to locate direct address in the sentences and use appropriate commas.
– 2-slide/form activity practicing the commas w/ introductory elements using examples
– answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2

★ Grammar – Prepositions (→ print : → digital)
– Using examples from the novel, learners will locate prepositions and prepositional phrases in the sentences, and they will practice using the appropriate preposition for the meaning of the
sentence.
– 3-slide/form activity practicing prepositions
– answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1

★ Grammar – Conjunctions and Interjections (→ print : → digital)
– Using examples from the novel, learners will study conjunctions (coordinating, subordinating, and correlative) and interjections. They will learn to locate the various conjunctions and interjections in the sentences.
– 5-slide/form activity practicing conjunctions (coordinating, subordinating, and correlative) and interjections
– answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1

★ Journal – Quickwrite Writing Prompts (→ print : → digital)
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 34-slide engaging slideshow
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1

★ 14 Comprehension Pop Quizzes (→ print : → digital)
– a 5-question pop quiz per chapter
* 46-slides/forms of Digital Quizzes
– The purpose of these is so learners who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and learners who didn’t read recently would not do well.
– answer keys included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.10

★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment (→ print : → digital)
– 45 vocabulary words from the novel
– three 15-question lists & quizzes
– 18-slide bundle includes list of words, quiz, and answer keys
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4

★ Map It Out Activity (→ print : → digital)
– Using locations mentioned in the novel and a little bit of outside geography research, learners will draw a map of where the story happens and mark where the characters travel, talk about traveling, and are going to travel.
– For everything on their map, learners will record where they got their information or clues from.
– 2-slide activity
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,3

★ Message in a Bottle Activity (→ print : → digital)
– After reading about the big events leading up to end of Chapter 16, learners will imagine they are in the story and write a letter about what’s been happening on the island and how they’re feeling about it all. What fears, hopes, dreams, and/or plans are running through their mind and what do they think they should do now?- Teacher decides whether or not to include letter in a bottle and/or what kinds of bottles they can use.
– 1-slide activity
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,3

★ Essay and Speech (→ print : → digital)
– 3 response to literature essay options for learners to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 11-slide bundle
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,3

★ Movie vs. Novel Comparison (→ print included in unit : → digital)
– 2-slide analyzer
– compare & contrast the movie and novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
Enjoy! Hope really can come alive.

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WHAT IS CREATED FOR DIGITAL?
★ Our Created for Digital resources take all the trusted, quality instructional tools you know and love and convert them into the digital format you need for your online learners.

Why go Digital?
··· Paperless. No printing.
··· Instant saving … students work in the file.
··· 1:1
··· Technology Proficiency
··· Works on Chromebooks, Android Tablets, and other devices
··· Engaged students
··· Easy group work
··· Paper trail of revisions for teacher to see

Includes:
··· Teacher Tutorial – access link and how to use this with your learners
··· Microsoft OneDrive user instructions – a step-by-step visual tutorial. This will only take minutes!
··· All slides can be used over and over again.

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→ Digital-Print Combo Unit

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