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In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - Activity Book WritingIn The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - Activity Book Writing
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Perfection Learning
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3rd - 6th
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In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - Activity Book

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Moving to a new country isn't easy, as Shirley Temple Wong learns in In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord. A series of language arts activities carry readers through the novel, addressing the story's themes, characters, vocabulary, sentence structure, and historical context.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

jackie robinson, the chinese new year, reading comprehension, american literature, long vowels, syllables, compound words, prepositional phrases, cause and effect, synonyms, antonyms, chinese culture

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use as warm-up activities during a novel unit
  • Assign the book during Black History Month or when focusing on immigration in social studies
  • Have learners write about their own immigration backgrounds, including how many generations ago their families came to America

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires copies of the book

Pros

  • Provides answer keys for all worksheets
  • Connects applicable language arts skills (vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, literary analysis)

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.3.2 RL.3.3 RL.3.4 RL.3.10 RL.4.1 RL.4.2 RL.4.3 RL.4.4 RL.4.10 RL.5.1 RL.5.2 RL.5.3 RL.5.4 RL.5.10 L.3.1.a L.3.3.a L.3.4.a L.4.1.a L.4.3.a L.4.4.a L.5.1.a L.5.3.a L.5.4.a RL.6.1 RL.6.2 RL.6.3 RL.6.4 RL.6.10 L.6.1.a L.6.3.a L.6.4.a

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