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Boost Student Involvement With The Novel Unit™ Teacher Guide for In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord!
Novel Units give you some background about the author and the book, initiating activity suggestions, vocabulary activity suggestions, questions (and answers) for each section of the book along with suggested supplementary activities. They usually also have a series of worksheets, mostly in graphic organizer format, to help reinforce vocabulary, the key elements of fiction, and students' literary analysis of the work.
Novel Unit Teacher Guides include:
• summary of the story
• about the author
• background information
• pre-reading activities
• vocabulary builders
• discussion questions and answers
• graphic organizers
• writing ideas
• literary analysis
• post-reading discussion/writing ideas
• cross-curriculum extension activities
• assessment
• scoring rubric
