Description
Red Dirt Jessie takes place during the Great Depression in Oklahoma and is a great choice if you are studying this period in social studies. The unit is 27 pages and is organized in a before, during, after reading style, and has specific focus skills for each reading section. The skills are listed below.
Skills addressed with this unit for Red Dirt Jessie:
- prereading
- vocabulary
- cause/effect
- plot
- author’s craft
- making connections
- questioning
- drawing conclusions
- character traits
- summarizing,
- and response to reading.
This unit is a pdf file and would need to be printed for each student. You can use it for literature circles/book clubs or in guided reading small groups.
Contessa Wnek –
Love the graphic organizers. This save me a ton of time!
Missy G. –
Thank you,Thank you,Thank you for providing this resource. My kids and I fell in love with Jessie!
Katie Fontaine –
Thanks
kristi J. –
very helpful!
crystal C. –
Enjoted it
Jeanne L. –
GREAT RESOURCE
Jennifer F. –
I did not use this. After looking at it, It was just too hard for my group to comprehend.
Molly S. –
I’m starting this novel next week and this resource is going to be a great fit!