An Instructional Guide for Literature: Maniac Magee
An Instructional Guide for Literature: Maniac Magee

Author: Mary Ellen Taylor

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2015-05-15

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1493860445

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Explore the many obstacles that Maniac Magee encounters in this eye-opening book. Students will learn to analyze prejudices and other challenges that Magee faces by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this digital instructional guide for literature. This e-book guide is the perfect tool for teachers to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this 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.

Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner)
Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner)

Author: Jerry Spinelli

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0316333506

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A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.

Maniac Magee
Maniac Magee

Author: Jerry Spinelli

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 1997-07

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9780590366441

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He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park "frog" homer; how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it. But the thing Maniac Magee is best known for is what he did for the kids from the East Side and those from the West Side.

Literature Circle Guide
Literature Circle Guide

Author: Perdita Finn

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780439163620

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A guide to facilitating the discussion of the novel by Jerry Spinelli by students in grades four through eight offers suggestions for identifying themes, analyzing vocabulary, and responding to the text.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Author: Kristen Kemp

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1493860089

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Encourage students to spend some time in the lives of two innocent young boys, who befriend each other during Germany's dark period of WWII. A charming, yet heart-wrenching story, students will learn to analyze the boys' friendship, their innocence, and the dangers they unknowingly face. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. These lessons and activities in this instructional guide for literature 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 more.

Teaching with Favorite Newbery Books
Teaching with Favorite Newbery Books

Author: Lori Licciardo Musso

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780590019750

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Contains engaging discussion questions, vocabulary builders, writing prompts, and great literature response activities.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: How to Eat Fried Worms
An Instructional Guide for Literature: How to Eat Fried Worms

Author: Tracy Pearce

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2015-05-15

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1493860259

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Young readers will learn all about eating worms in this disgustingly entertaining book by completing fun, challenging lessons and activities provided in this digital instructional guide for literature. These rigorous, cross-curricular lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to comprehend complex literature and help them understand the significance of the story. This e-book resource is packed with tools to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. This is the perfect way to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature.

Loser
Loser

Author: Jerry Spinelli

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0061756822

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From renowned Newbery-winning author Jerry Spinelli comes a powerful story about how not fitting in just might lead to an incredible life. This classic book is perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Carl Hiaasen. Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up. But Zinkoff also raises his hand with all the wrong answers, trips over his own feet, and falls down with laughter over a word like "Jabip." Other kids have their own word to describe him, but Zinkoff is too busy to hear it. He doesn't know he's not like everyone else. And one winter night, Zinkoff's differences show that any name can someday become "hero." With some of his finest writing to date and great wit and humor, Jerry Spinelli creates a story about a boy's individuality surpassing the need to fit in and the genuine importance of failure. As readers follow Zinkoff from first through sixth grade, it becomes impossible not to identify with and root for him through failures and triumphs. The perfect classroom read.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Author: Charles Aracich

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-03-01

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1425889875

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Looking for ways to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature? Students will be engaged as they analyze this classic Newbery Medal-winning book about a young girl's fight against prejudice. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides engaging activities that incorporate the following research-based literacy skills: close reading tasks; text-based vocabulary practice; cross-curricular activities; text-dependent questions; reader response writing prompts; leveled comprehension questions; story elements comprehension tasks; diverse and relevant assessments. Strengthen your students' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!

Love, Stargirl
Love, Stargirl

Author: Jerry Spinelli

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2007-08-14

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0375890815

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The New York Times bestselling sequel to Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli’s modern-day classic Stargirl, now an original film on Disney+! And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday! Love, Stargirl picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new people in her life. In Love, Stargirl, we hear the voice of Stargirl herself as she reflects on time, life, Leo, and - of course - love. “Spinelli is a poet of the prepubescent. . . . No writer guides his young characters, and his readers, past these pitfalls and challenges and toward their futures with more compassion.” —The New York Times