by boot | Mar 10, 2025
Write this excerpt from the story on chart paper or display on the Smartboard. “Grandpa has a secret room. The lights are always out; the curtains always closed. Old trunks and wooden boxes line the walls, dusty and mysterious. Step, step, step … We step sneaky steps...
by boot | Mar 10, 2025
Create a Think Aloud chart. (Use a piece of chart paper and put the title of the book at the top. List the following questions and record students’ answers.) What do you notice as you are looking at the illustrations in the book? What do the pictures tell us about the...
by boot | Mar 10, 2025
Before beginning the Read Aloud, take students on a “picture walk.” Show students the front cover of the book with the title covered or visible. Ask students to make predictions about the story from the front cover and to record those predictions on chart paper or on...
by boot | Mar 10, 2025
Distribute Starting the Study of Genocide (included in this guide) to students and have them write down their responses. Afterward, have students discuss their responses in groups or as a class.
by boot | Mar 6, 2025
Africville is about home in many ways. In the story, the Africville that the young girl visits is much different than it was many years ago. We don’t know if she has ever been there before, yet it still seems like a place where she feels at home. Ask students what...
