Daily Lessons for Teaching Number the Stars

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Chapter 1 The objective of Daily Lesson #1 is for students to recall genre characteristics.

1) 1. Class Discussion: Have the students identify the characteristics of various genres and identify which genre this book falls into (historical fiction)

2. Partner Activity: Have the students provide examples of different books which can also be considered historical fiction.

3. Writing Activity: Have the...
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