The Sign of the Beaver Lesson Plans

The Sign of the Beaver Response Journal (Prestwick House)

By reflecting on what they've read, students develop new ideas and link these ideas to their lives. To facilitate this process, we offer reproducible Prestwick Response Journals in the tradition of the response-centered teaching movement. Each... More »

The Sign of the Beaver Teaching Unit (Prestwick House)

A teaching unit and individual learning packet from Prestwick House. Includes the following: Comprehensive chapter-by-chapter study guides for students Questions suitable for essay topics or discussion Vocabulary lists Muliple-choice and... More »

Sign of the Beaver: A Novel-Ties Study Guide

This Novel-Ties study guide accompanies Sign of the Beaver, the story about a boy who is able to survive in the Maine wilderness with the help of Attean, an Indian boy.This Novel-Ties guide is a teacher/student literature unit organized in... More »

The Sign of the Beaver Response Journal

By reflecting on what they've read, students develop new ideas and link these ideas to their lives. To facilitate this process, we offer reproducible Prestwick Response Journals in the tradition of the response-centered teaching movement. Each... More »

The Sign of the Beaver Teaching Unit

A teaching unit and individual learning packet from Prestwick House. Includes the following: Comprehensive chapter-by-chapter study guides for students Questions suitable for essay topics or discussion Vocabulary lists Muliple-choice and... More »

Sign of the Beaver: A Novel-Ties Study Guide (Enhanced eBook)

This Novel-Ties study guide accompanies Sign of the Beaver, the story about a boy who is able to survive in the Maine wilderness with the help of Attean, an Indian boy.This Novel-Ties guide is a teacher/student literature unit organized in... More »

A Guide for Using The Sign of the Beaver in the Classroom

This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary... More »

A Guide for Using The Sign of the Beaver in the Classroom (Enhanced eBook)

This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary... More »

Beaver Lodge

Information page, discussion and writing ideas, and a pattern of the exterior and interior of a beaver lodge to use in report writing More »

Animals of the Forest: Circle-Time Book

A colorful ten-page circle-time booklet about the animals of the forest, including the bear, salamander, deer, moose, beaver, and robins More »

Cut/Paste: The Beaver's Home

Presented in both Spanish and English, this activity provides an illustration of a beaver, a sentence about it, and four directions for a student to color, cut, paste, and draw a new beaver creation. More »

Spelling: American Sign Language (Ten-Minute Activities)

'Sign It!' is a ten-minute language arts activity in which students use a transparency of the American Sign Language alphabet to spell a word from the weekly spelling list. More »

The Royals

The document contains the constitutional and representative rights and duties of the head of State of England, Queen Elizabeth II. More »

Animals of the Forest: Take-Home Book

A duplicate of the circle-time book, this is a reproducible minibook about the animals of the forest (bear, salamander, deer, moose, beaver, and robins), that students can color, cut apart, and take home to share More »

Busy as a Beaver (Gr. 5/Week 9)

This daily practice unit about the characteristics of beavers contains four related paragraphs that have errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and language use. Monday through Thursday, students correct the errors and check answers. On... More »

Animals of the Forest: Center Activity

Directions and pattern pieces for a center activity that presents four-part puzzles of forest animals (deer, bear, moose, beaver) for students to put together More »

Animals of the Forest: Storyboard Pieces

Reproducible pictures of animals of the forest (bear, salamander, deer, moose, beaver, and robins) for students to cut out and use in retelling information from the circle-time book More »

Elizabeth Blackwell, Doctor

Students will read "Elizabeth Blackwell, Doctor" and complete a chart showing the emotions of various speakers. More »

Film Guide for Elizabeth starring Cate Blanchette

This is an extensive film guide for use with the film Elizabeth starrying Cate Blanchette. There is a section detailing all the characters, a section of questions drawn from the film, and a page of notes on historical inaccuracies. More »

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (Focus on Reading Study Guide) (Enhanced eBook)

Struggling readers frequently lack basic reading skills and are not equipped with the prior knowledge and reading strategies to thoroughly engage in the classroom literature experience. Give your students the background guides, your students will... More »

Minus Sign: Lesson 187

Students will use their knowledge of subtraction to solve the equations. More »

Minus Sign: Lesson 189

Students will use their knowledge of subtraction to solve the equations. More »