The 34-page Kids' Wings unit for The Magician's Elephant is the perfect vehicle for improving vocabulary, comprehension, and cooperative group skills while reading a dark old-world tale centered on magic and entwined with reinforced skills for your students' powerbase! The unit and Jeopardy-type game will be delivered together in a zip file via a download code in your receipt.
The activity pages include:
- Pre-Reading Discussion Cards
- Anticipation Guide
- 2 -Page Readers’ Theater Introduction
- Vocabulary List
- Vocabulary 5-In-A-Row Game
- Making Connections: Before Reading Quick Writes and Predict/Read/Confirm Chapter Questions
- Character Studies
- Writing a Diamante Poem
- Illustrating the Event at the Bliffendorf Opera House Story
- Activities for Visualizing the Chapters through Drawing
- Multiple Choice Comprehension Activities
- Crossword Puzzle: Character Connections
- Comic Strip Summarization (Visualizing Events)
- Choosing the Best Summary for Chapters 9, 10, 11
- Recalling, Analyzing, and Writing About the Events, Chapters 14-20
- The Procession, Illustrating and Describing
- Research: The Dimensions of an Elephant
- Writing Prompts
- Answer Keys
- Plus, an interactive Jeopardy-type game!