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Sarah, Plain and Tall: An Instructional Guide for Literature
by Kristi Sturgeon
Published 1 March 2014
Young readers will enjoy this heartwarming story following Sarah's journey with a small family to become the mother-figure they desperately need. Sarah, Plain and Tall: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and engaging lessons and activities to aid your students' explorations of rich, complex literature. Readers will learn such skills as analyzing and comprehending story elements in multiple ways, practicing close reading and text-based vocabulary, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions. Add rigor to your students' explorations of this Newbery Medal-winning novel.
This instructional guide for literature is the ideal tool to help students analyze and understand this classic story. The engaging and rigorous lessons and activities utilize research-based literacy skills that will help students become efficient readers. Students will dive eagerly into the story of Andrew's quest to get just one freckle! They will practice guided close reading, study text-based vocabulary, analyze characters and story elements, and much more while making cross-curricular connections to mathematics, science, social studies, and other areas. Strengthen your students' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!