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Where the Red Fern Grows Novel Study Guide for 6th, 7th, and 8th Graders is a 189-page teaching resource for Wilson Rawls’s classic novel.  This complete study guide contains nine different instructional components.  The range of skills begin with basic comprehension and continue to complex thinking skills.

Where the Red Fern Grows Teaching Resources:

Prereading Activities
•First, PREREADING activities and ideas get students motivated about the story’s setting, plot, and characters.

Informational Texts Reading Passages
•Next, the six INFORMATIONAL TEXTS student interest.  They also provide background information to make the story easier to understand and enjoy. Each text includes a set of standards-based questions.

Vocabulary Study
•This vocabulary study includes word lists, definitions, dictionary activities, and usage worksheets.  A study of figurative language taken from the text is part of this component as well.

Short Answer Questions
•The SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS follow the story chapter-by-chapter and require detailed, factual responses.

Objective Tests
•This OBJECTIVE TESTS (Multiple Choice, True/False, Yes/No, Fill in the Blank) cover the story in chapter-by-chapter quizzes and as a whole book test. The questions check for story comprehension.

CCSS/Standards-Based Quizzes
•These quizzes cover the book chapter-by-chapter and included whole-book quiz as well.  Each page of questions includes a writing challenge.

Thinking and Writing Skills
•The THINK, WRITE, CREATE open-ended prompts address the story chapter-by-chapter and as a whole book. The activities range in difficulty from basic to challenging for gifted students.  They align with a variety of CCSS ELA and Writing standards.

Graphic Organizers for Writing
• The GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS for writing connect to specific story events or characters.  Some are based on a chapter event while others are whole story in scope.

Answer Keys
•Full ANSWER KEYS for those items requiring a specific answer included.

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