Number the Stars: An Instructional Guide for Literature

by Suzanne Barchers

Overview

Use this guide to follow the story of ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her Jewish best friend Ellen who must move in with the Johansen family and pretend to be their daughter to escape the Nazis. Number the Stars: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text. Readers will learn to connect historical events to this story, analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of this Newbery Medal-winning novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781425889852
Publisher:	Shell Education
Publication date:	09/01/2014
Series:	Great Works
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	72
Sales rank:	1,093,802
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.22(d)
Age Range:	8 - 16 Years

About the Author

Suzanne I. Barchers, Ed.D., has been in education for more than 40 years as a classroom teacher and educational author and publisher. An award-winning author, she has written many educational resources and previously served as managing editor, editor-in-chief, and vice president at several leading educational companies. Barchers is past president of the board of directors for the Associated of Educational Publishers.