Description
My Side of the Mountain is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with very little preparation by the teacher. This book is a great fit for middle school language arts. It aligns with many of the common core state standards.
The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, writing for a specific purpose, creating opening and closing sentences, sequencing, using transition words, organizing a paragraph, understanding superlatives, researching, recognizing common nouns and proper nouns, expanding vocabulary, using context clues, critical thinking, prioritizing, justifying, defending a position, recognizing figurative language, and answering trivia questions about the story.
This product includes:
1. Tree House Real Estate Listing
2. Catching a Fish
3. Animal Superlatives
4. Common Noun or Proper Noun?
5. Criss Cross Puzzle
6. Sam’s Survival Items
7. Revealing Evidence
8. Figurative Language Hunt
9. Jeopardy
10. Section Questions
11. Reader’s Choice Book Reports
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