Looking to introduce some text-based questions into your ELA lessons? Practice the kinds of skills the Common Core demands with the seven text-based questions and the essay prompt provided here. Designed to be a three-day activity, day...

This is a complete online study guide/notes for the children's novel Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

Selected (7)reading passages (grades 7-11) to pair with "The Watson's Go to Birmingham -- 1963" by Christopher Paul Curtis. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Kenny Watson and his family embark on a road trip from Michigan to...

After losing his mother four years ago, 10-year-old Bud Caldwell runs away from the foster care system in search of the father he has never met. Selected (11) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair with "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher...

Over one hundred links to images, videos, graphic organizers, and websites to use while reading Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis.

A fourteen-part learning module including links to texts, websites, and videos with pre reading activities for The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis.

Ideas for connecting this novel with other parts of the curriculum, a pre-reading activity and thematic connections are the important features of this teacher guide.

Big Ideas: Authors write historical fiction to show the reader what it was like to live in a certain time period. Readers can use historical fiction to learn about new settings. People are influenced by and react to their setting so you...