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Activity
Kids' Wings

Texas Bluebonnet Books: "My Life in Dog Years"

For Students 9th - 10th
Gary Paulsen's autobiography, "My Life in Dog Years" can be enriched through the activities offered at this website!
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Exploring Author's Language in "The River" [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will learn about literary devices as used in Gary Paulsen's "The River." This guide also supplies suggestions for group activities (PDF, requires Adobe Reader.)
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Website
The Book Report

Teen reads.com: Gary Paulsen

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Gary Paulsen's life which has inspired so much of his popular fiction. Be sure to follow the links below his portrait to reviews of some of his newer titles.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Using a Jigsaw for an Author Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for an author study. Students will work in a jigsaw activity during a 9-week author study. Downloadable graphic organizers accompany this author's study.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Books Authors: Gary Paulsen

For Students 9th - 10th
A website dedicated to Gary Paulsen's biography. Learn about the author of children's books such as the Hatchet Series.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen

For Students 6th - 8th
A learning module with sixteen links to an image, a website, and texts to use while reading Gary Paulsen's Nightjohn.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Research Project for Hatchet

For Students 4th - 7th
A twenty-part learning module with images, websites, texts, and slideshows for students to use while working through a research project for Gary Paulsen's Hatchet.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Hatchet Survival

For Students 4th - 6th
A five-part learning module with links to an image, texts, a video, and a quiz to use while reading Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Soldier's Heart

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Soldier's Heart" by Gary Paulsen. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Companion to Gary Paulsen's Hatchet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The flipchart is meant to be used before during and after reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It includes introduction material as well as discussion topics during reading and assessment questions after...
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Website
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: The "Brian" Books: Teachers' Guide

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A message to teachers from author Gary Paulsen, teaching ideas for thematic activities, and interdisciplinary possibilities are all part of this teachers' guide for the whole series of "Brian" books.
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Website
Other

Educational Paperback Association: Gary Paulsen

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography with a picture is followed by citations of work by and about this popular author.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Gary Paulsen

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Gary Paulsen.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Gary Paulsen

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Gary Paulsen