This 37-page Kids' Wings unit for Annie Barrow's The Magic Half, will enrich and extend your reading of this exciting time-travel adventure. It is perfect for paired, group, or whole class study.
The unit includes:
- Pre-Reading Discussion Cards,
- Anticipation Guide,
- Preparing Your Intellectual Tools: Dialectical Journal,
- 2 -Page Readers Theater Introduction,
- Vocabulary List,
- Research: The Great Depression,
- Exploring Living History: The Interview,
- Making Connections: Before Reading Quick Writes and Predict/Read/Confirm Chapter Questions,
- Character Studies,
- The Decagon Room,
- Designing My Own Room,
- Crossword Puzzle: Magic Happens,
- Activities for Visualizing the Chapters through Drawing,
- Multiple Choice and Short Answer Comprehension Activities,
- Visualizing the Story,
- Cause and Effect,
- There's More to the Story,
- A Spinner Discussion,
- Illustrate a Description,
- Illustrate and Describe Your Part of Town,
- What If and Analogies,
- Story Mapping a New Ending,
- First Draft to Final Draft,
- Horst's Hidden Things,
- Two-page Story Review,
- Plus, an interactive Jeopardy-type game!
- With Answer Keys