Description
Get your learners thinking! Our Numbers the Stars Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 6-week novel study — prereading questions, characters, vocabulary, projects, writing, and more. You’ll love the “print-and-go” activities in slideshow and .pdf, both fun and rigorous for your learners (451+ pages, slides, & forms for all your print and digital teaching needs).
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don’t forget the easy-grade Google Forms!
Your learners will have fun with the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson plan journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This literature guide includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of fun activities.
Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns the lesson plan to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packetthat is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwritewriting prompts.
To make your digital experience smooth, we include instructions (w/ screenshots!) of how to download and organize your activities in Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. We’ve added easy-grade 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 questions aren’t able to auto-grade, though, because of the short-answer format).
TEXT: NUMBER THE STARS by Lois Lowry
LEVEL: 5th – 7th
TOTAL: 218+ slides/pages in lesson plan unit
→ Based off the 2011 Houghton Mifflin Edition [ISBN: 9780547577098].
→ Our activities easily integrate w/ Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.
→ Pacing Guide and Suggested Answer Keys included
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NUMBER THE STARS – NOVEL STUDY CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the book study
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards (CCSS novel unit). Easy TEKS conversion.
→ Easy to differentiate the lesson plan for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ BEFORE READING
★ Prereading Bias Intro Activity
– answer thematic questions to get learners thinking about the novel
– 25 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1
★ Intro Notes WWII Background
– background into what was happening in the world around Annemarie Johansen and her family
– 44 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
★ Google Earth Introduction Tour
– The Østerbrogade shopping strip, Hillerød and Nørrebro bombing locations, Amalienborg Castle, and all of AnneMarie’s train ride up to visit Uncle Henrik…and many of the 22 locations zoomed in to the 3D street view. It’s rockin awesome.
– 22-location 3D tour across Europe
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
★ KWL Analyzer Chart for Notetaking
– notetaking tool of what they “K”now, “W”ant to know, & “L”earned
– 2 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ DURING READING
★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc Activity
– analyze the 6 parts of the plot
– 10 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict Activity
– analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 7 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Character Activity
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 21 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3
★ Journal Questions – Quickwrite Writing Prompts
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 58 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
★ Figurative Language Instructional Activity
– 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+ slides slideshow + 70+ slides Google 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 Analyzer
– analyze figurative language and complete 27 figures of speech specific to the novel
– 6 pages, slides, & Google forms (suggested answer keys included)
– Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Analogies, Personification, Onomatopoeia, Puns, Irony
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ 6 Comprehension Question Pop Quizzes
– a 5 comprehension question pop quiz per chapter
– 54 pages, slides, & Google forms (suggested answer keys included)
– 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 show comprehension.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2,10
★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment
– 60 vocabulary words from the novel
– one 60-question quiz and two 30-question quizzes
– 18 pages, slides, & Google forms (suggested answer keys included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ AFTER READING
★ Essay Writing and Speech
– 4 response to literature essay options for learners to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 17 pages, slides, & rubrics
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,9
– CCSS.ELA-SpeakingListening.SL.1,4,6
★ Little Red Riding Hood Activity
– read the original fairy tale and compare to Annemarie’s journey
– 7 pages & slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,7
★ Video Interview w/ Lois Lowry
– 2-minute video
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3,7,10
Enjoy! And remember, only the fairy tales remain the same.
