Redwall: A Teaching Guide (Discovering Literature Series) - Softcover

Podhaizer, Mary Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0931993911 ISBN 13: 9780931993916

Publisher: Garlic Pr, 2000

Synopsis

The challenging level focuses on a variety of reading strategies to help students construct a meaningful literature experience as well as develop critical thinking and academic skills.

Table of Contents

Notes to the Teacher
About the Organization of This Literature Guide

o Vocabulary
o Journal and Discussion Topics
o Chapter Summary
o The Groupings of Literature

Other Features of the Challenging Level

o Strategy Pages
o Testing
o Writer s Forum

Introducing the Literature

o Sample Lesson Plan

Bibliography
Book One
Vocabulary for Chapters 1-10

Strategy 1: Beginning a Book
Strategy 2: Maps and Illustrations

Chapters 1-2

Strategy 3: Animal Fantasy/Proper Names

Chapter 3-4
Chapters 5-6

Strategy 4: Setting: Redwall Abbey

Chapters 7-8

Strategy 5: Plot Conflict
Strategy 6: point of View

Chapters 9-10:

Strategy 7: Plot The Design of a Story
Strategy 8: Foreshadowing and Flashback

Test 1: Book One, Chapters 1-10
Vocabulary for Chapters 11-20
Chapters 11-12
Chapters 13-14

Strategy 9: Characterizations

Chapters 15-16:
Chapters 17-18

Writer s Forum: Dialogue
Writer s Forum: Description

Chapters 19-20
Test 2: Book One, Chapters 11-20
Book Two
Vocabulary for Chapters 1-10
Chapters 1-2
Chapter 3-4

Writer s Forum: Summary
Writer s Forum: Riddles

Chapters 5-6
Chapters 7-8
Chapters 9-10
Test 3: Book Two, Chapters 1-10
Vocabulary for Chapters 11-23
Chapters 11-12
Chapters 13-14
Chapters 15-16

Writer s Forum: Compare and Contrast

Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapters 20-21
Chapters 22-23

Strategy 10: Imaging

Test 4: Book Two, Chapters 11-23
Book Three
Vocabulary for Chapters 1-8
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3-4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6-7
Chapter 8
Test 5: Book Three, Chapters 1-8
Vocabulary for Chapters 9-15
Chapters 9-10
Chapters 11-13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15

Strategy 11: Theme
Strategy 12: Rereading a Book
Writer s Forum: Book Review
Writer s Forum: Compare and Contrast a Book and a Sound Recording
Test 6: Book Three, Chapters 9-15

Answer Pages

About this title

About the Author

Mary Elizabeth is a teacher and writer specializing in educational materials for students and teachers in settings ranging from kindergarten to college. She takes a novel approach to core educational outcomes and brings a freshness and thoroughness that is central to all of her work. As a teacher and writer of K higher education materials and a software content developer, Mary Elizabeth strives to provide the tools, skills, strategies, knowledge, and experience learners need to do whatever it is they will eventually do with their lives, using media that provide rich, memorable learning.

The products she develops are rooted in her training at the University of Chicago (B.A.) as a writer and at the University of Vermont (M. Ed.) as a reading clinician, as well as her own classroom, private tutoring session, and homeschooling experiences. Working both on her own and in collaboration with others, her goal is to design and bring to fruition products that contribute to essential learning in new ways and fill a gap in the market.

Edition details

• Publisher: Garlic Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0931993911
• ISBN 13: 9780931993916
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 95
• Illustrator: Kifer Kathy