THE LAST BEAR By Hannah Gold – Novel Study and Book Companion

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A NOVEL STUDY for THE LAST BEAR by Hannah Gold.

This Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover a wide range of the English Curriculum Standards in context. Check out the PREVIEW for an example of some of the content included.

This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created in the order of the book. The contents pages outline the skills and strategies that students will be practising as they progress through the novel study.

AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED

Activities include:

• Comprehension strategies – inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, cause and effect, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills – sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements – character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response – creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary – a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
• Applying and Synthesising – engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story.
• Research – relevant to the story and children’s interests
• Written tasks – using a range of genres as relevant to the story
• Creative Thinking – engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking – using themes from the story to consider wider issues

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

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