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Teaching Strategies: The Giver OrganizerTeaching Strategies: The Giver Organizer
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5th - 7th
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Teaching Strategies: The Giver

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Can utopia be achieved? Included here are three literature worksheets to pair with Lois Lowry's The Giver. Pupils work in groups to come up with solutions to society's issues, individuals back up a statement related to a topic in the novel, and learners fill out a chart about the character in order explore gender roles.

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Concepts

the giver, lois lowry, utopia, science fiction, character analysis, supporting evidence, gender roles

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Supplement your current unit on The Giver with these materials
  • Use the other strategies listed to inspire other activities and materials

Classroom Considerations

  • The first page lists nine different strategies; however, supporting materials are only included for the first and eighth activities (a third worksheet is also provided, but this is not on the list)

Pros

  • Each worksheet is followed by a journal entry; this is a great way for pupils to reflect on their learning and get in even more writing practice
  • The worksheets involve collaborative work and higher-level thinking

Cons

  • None

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What types of questions help readers learn the most? Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders learn how to ask four types of questions from the Question Answer Response (QAR) reading strategy to help grow their comprehension of Touching Spirit...
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Nightjohn: List-Group-Label Strategy

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Encourage readers of Nightjohn, Gary Paulsen's young adult novel about slavery set shortly before the Civil War, to develop their categorization and organizational skills with a strategy that asks them to list all the words they can...
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Tangerine: Cubing Strategy

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Summer Reading List Grades 3-5

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Encourage your charges to pick up a book (or two, or three) over the summer! They'll find 25 different ideas on this list of summer reading books for kids. Each book is paired with publication information and a brief synopsis, so your...
3rd - 5th English Language Arts
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Phineas Gage: Notecard Vocabulary Strategy

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Understanding the vocabulary in a text, especially a text like Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science that includes quite a few technical terms, can be the key to understanding the text as a whole. Learners focus on...
6th - 8th English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Worksheet

The Giver: Biopoem

Novelinks
The characters in Lois Lowry's The Giver are rich and complex as they weave their way through the plot. Examine the character traits of one chosen person with a biopoem, which enables learners to follow a poetic format in writing a...
5th - 8th English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

Running Out of Time: Vocabulary Strategies

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Review concepts and terms after reading Running Out of Time. Learners each come up with a few terms that they think are important and then participate in a list-group-label exercise, paying close attention to the two main years featured...
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The Hobbit: Vocabulary in the Round

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Blundering, audacious, obscurest. Class members develop strategies for teaching each other vocabulary words drawn from The Hobbit.
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A Research Toolkit of 12 Reading Strategies for the Foreign Language Classroom

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Learning to read is not a simple task, but there are methods for assisting pupils as they develop literacy skills. The first four pages of this resource include information about language development and reading development, as well as...
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