Use this guide to follow the story of ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her Jewish best friend Ellen who must move in with the Johansen family and pretend to be their daughter to escape the Nazis. Number the Stars: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text. Readers will learn to connect historical events to this story, analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of this Newbery Medal-winning novel.

Use this guide to follow the story of ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her Jewish best friend Ellen who must move in with the Johansen family and pretend to be their daughter to escape the Nazis. Readers will learn to connect historical events to this personal, engaging story with the help of this literary guide. Analyzing story elements in multiple ways, close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will walk away with after interacting with the rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities in this resource. Written to support this story, each activity and lesson work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature.

Young readers will be captivated as they discover the dark secrets of a supposedly utopian society in this classic Newbery Award-winning novel. The Giver: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides challenging activities and lessons that work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements. Students can practice close reading, improve text-based vocabulary, and determine meaning through text-dependent questions. This guide is the perfect resource to add rigor to your students' exploration of rich, complex literature.

These leveled discussion questions about Number the Stars require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.

Students analyze Number the Stars 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.

These assessment questions for Number the Stars 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 Number the Stars 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.