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Lyddie: An Instructional Unit Resource Guide
Katherine Paterson’s young adult novel Lyddie is the foundation of a differentiated instruction unit that not only explores the rise of industrialization and labor but women’s rights issues as well. After learners read the novel, they...
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QAR - Jacob Have I Loved
What kinds of questions could be asked with different pieces of literature? Use QAR questions to help your middle schoolers develop the skills to find information in a text. Thorough directions, a text excerpt, and a set of reading...
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Jacob Have I Loved
Students examine visual images about the novel, Jacob Have I Loved. They compare pictures from "America from the Great Depression to World War II" that are described in the book and other studies of the Chesapeake Bay. They present their...
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Jacob Have I Loved: Semantic Feature Analysis Chart
Do not allow your pupils to ignore the connections among the characters in Katherine Paterson’s Newbery Medal winning novel, Jacob Have I Loved. Instead, provide them a semantic feature analysis chart that asks them to note things Louise...
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Bridge to Terabithia: Visualizing to Optimize Comprehension
Good readers visualize. And in our image-rich culture it is imperative that children are provided with opportunities to practice this important skill. A selection from Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends and Bridge to Terabithia,...
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Bridge to Terabithia Study Questions and Essay Topics
For this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 13 short answer and essay questions about Katherine Patterson's Bridge to Terabithia. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Bridge to Terabithia Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Katherine Patterson's Bridge to Terabithia. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Analyzing Relationships
Students explore relationships between story characters. In this story elements and reading comprehension activity, students generate character traits of the characters in Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson. Students describe...
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Photographs from the Great Depression: Jacob Have I Loved 
Students research the Great Depression and World War II. In this Great Depression lesson, students analyze photographs of the depression era as they begin reading Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved.
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Friendship and Death
Fourth graders share their thoughts and feelings about friendship and death and connect them with those of the characters in the book, The Bridge to Teribithia. They complete a friendship picture book and write a letter as one of the...
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I Hate My Sibling?
Third graders read the book Jacob Have I Loved, then ask themselves whether they can truly hate their siblings.
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Bridge to Terabithia
Students read Katherin Paterson's novel, Bridge to Terabithia and participate in a variety of enrichment activities. Lesson provides study questions for each chapter of the novel.
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Dream Killers
Third graders explore figurative language in Jacob Have I Loved and define what is a dream killer.
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I'm a Little Crab Pot
Third graders read Jacob Have I Loved and explore conflict/ resolution.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Friendship With Bridge to Terabithia
Contains plans for six lessons that explore the value of friendship using Katherine Paterson?s novel "Bridge to Terabithia." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Guide to Lyddie [Pdf]
A detailed mini-guide to award-winning author Katherine Paterson's novel "Lyddie." Provides comprehensive information about the novel, including historical/biographical context, chapter summaries, study questions, and post-reading...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Company: Teacher's Guide for Bread and Roses, Too
Katherine Paterson writes historical fiction for middle school aged learners. This book on the Bread and Roses strike includes good factual information about the strike woven into a personal story. This teacher's guide is a handy...
Virginia Tech
The Alan Review: A Bridge Too Far but Why?
If you've wondered why Paterson's "Bridge to Terabithia" is frequently on the banned book lists, this article offers some possible explanations.
Read Works
Read Works: Bridge to Terabithia 5th Grade Unit
A Grade 5 literature study unit for the novel "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson. The concepts covered include cause and effect, character, genre, plot, predicting, and theme.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Photos From Great Depression: Jacob Have I Loved
A collection of images from the period of the Great Depression to World War II provide students with visual references as they read and examine Katherine Paterson's novel, "Jacob Have I Loved." Lesson encourages critical thinking about...
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Book Files: Bridge to Terabithia [Pdf]
"Bridge to Terabithia", a Newbery Award winner by Katherine Paterson is a contemporary novel of friendship, accepting differences, giving, imagination, and caring for others. Friends, Jess and Leslie live in rural Virginia community....
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Kids reads.com: Authors
Click on the children's author link to view an article with biographical information, book titles, and the like.
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McGraw Hill
Study Guide for "Bridge to Terabithia" [Pdf]
Teach your students the Newbury award winning novel "Bridge to Terabithia" by Elizabeth Paterson with the help of this twenty-two page study guide. Themes include identity, loneliness, loss, responsibility, childhood and friendship....