Daily Lessons for Teaching Where the Red Fern Grows

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 This first chapter provides the frame story for the novel. The objective of this lesson is to understand the frame story and to predict the relationship between it and the main plot line.

1) 1) Teacher Lecture: Provide an introduction to the literary device of a frame story (if necessary).

2) Group Activity: Have students work in groups of three to five and draw...
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