Looking for interdisciplinary opportunities that build essential comprehension skills while teaching about the Holocaust? These trifolds are made for use with Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust by Elly Berkovits Gross. This book is engaging for students and allow for great practice of reading comprehension skills while learning about the Holocaust through the eyes of a survivor. The fact that this is a true story really allows your students to connect with the historical significance and struggle that occurred during this time in history. The format of the book study also allows you to teach critical comprehension skills, which means you can maximize your instructional time.
Foldable novel study trifolds are provided for Elly and are aligned with Common Core Standards and TEKS to build essential reading comprehension in a book club format that can be done with your whole class, in small groups, or as an individual book study. Designed as a three-week long book study, your students will be deeply engaged throughout the book with each day's purposefully matched activity. Running book clubs in your classroom has never been easier or more meaningful!
Product Contents
- 3 paper saving, no prep trifolds (15 total days) in color & blackline
- Teachers guide with daily skill, academic vocabulary, and word of the day
- 3 weekly word of the day flip books
Skills & Topics Covered:
➟ Main Idea
➟ Inferences
➟ Text Analysis
➟ Character Traits
➟ Context Clues
➟ Cause & Effect
➟ Summary
➟ Predictions
➟ Visualizing
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