World History Word Walls

This product provides digital pre-reading resources: factual historical background context (photos, maps, music and links), complete vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment PPTS for the historical fiction novel, Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry. BL 4.5

GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension aligned to standards

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support and ESL or virtual classrooms

PDF FILE Each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 6 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson!

POWERPOINTS: Please be aware that YOUTUBE LINKS open to a standard warning page which must be clicked to access video.

• Title slide

-genre, author photo and short bio.

• Historical Background PowerPoint

-setting slides

-Location photos with maps

-Time period photos

-Live link to period music clip

-Link to historical video clips

• Vibrant Vocab PowerPoints divided by chapter

-bold photos appear without word for inference making

-vocab word which 'slides in' so photo can be first WITHOUT the word

-part of speech

-concise definition

***Differentiated Worksheet-**to be used as a pretest, posttest, or practice.

*Quizlet practice link

*Part of speech and connotation sort

Click the link below to view Number the Stars Vocabulary included in this lesson!

Number the Stars Vocabulary

ACTIVITIES:

· Introduce new story

· Provide backstory to text

· Group discussion/prediction

· Predictions for text

· Distance learning resource

· Post on webpage for review

· Individual electronic handouts-

· Add to electronic notebooks

· Test review

· Writing assignments

· Grammar study / parts of speech/Word Study

Printables for word wall and interactive notebooks

This lesson is also available in Google Slides.