Students respond to Flora and Ulysses through writing. Various writing prompts, which require students to make connections, are provided. Narrative, opinion/argument, and informative/explanatory prompts are included.
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Tale of Despereaux.
Join Flora and Ulysses in this humorous, Newberry award-winning story about hope and promise. Introduce students to this story and encourage them to analyze the text by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature. This guide is filled with rigorous, cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to comprehend and analyze complex literature. This 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.
These leveled discussion questions about Flora and Ulysses require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.
These assessment questions for Flora and Ulysses are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.
Students analyze Flora and Ulysses using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.
Join Flora and Ulysses in this humorous, Newbery Medal-winning story about a young girl and her pet squirrel. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides fun, challenging activities and lessons 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.
These assessment questions for Flora and Ulysses are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.
These vocabulary activities for Flora and Ulysses incorporate key skills from the Common Core. The activities integrate vocabulary with a study of the text. Includes text-dependent questions, definitions, and text-based sentences.
Students will enjoy studying the story elements of Flora and Ulysses. Through these engaging activities, students create products to share their understanding of the characters, plots, and settings of the novel.