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Because of Winn Dixie Novel Unit, Activities, Handouts, Tests!

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This teaching unit is designed to accompany Kate DiCamillo's novel Because of Winn-Dixie. It includes handouts, activities and/or questions as well as chapter tests, a unit test, writing assignments, postreading activities, and more. Our lessons are based on language arts standards, so you will not find just plain generic activities for this novel. Furthermore, this unit will help you address Common Core standards. For example, the lesson on chapter 15 prompts students to not only find similes, but it also requires them to analyze the similes and to explain how the similes impact imagery. These handouts are ready for you to use for each chapter. With this packet, no prep is needed! All of the work is planned out for you! Use these handouts to teach the novel as a whole-class read, for homework, for group work in literature circles, or as independent classwork.

Check out the following table of contents of the novel unit to see the focus of each chapter:

Table of Contents

Chapters 1 & 2 Who is Opal? Piece it together.

Chapters 1 & 2 Wanted Poster

Chapters 3 & 4 Ten Things about Opal’s Mama

Chapter 5 Point of View

Chapter 6 Dialogue and Writing Opportunity

Chapter 7 Conflict

Chapter 8 Creating Realistic Characters

Test 1 Chapters 1 – 8

Chapter 9 Readers’ Theater

Chapter 11 Strong Verbs and Onomatopoeia

Chapter 12 Create a Comic Strip

Chapter 14 Theme

Chapter 15 Similes to Create Imagery

Chapter 16 “Now There’s a Story”

Test 2 Chapters 9-16

Chapter 17 Littmus Lozenge Advertisement

Chapter 18 Examine a Word

Chapter 19 Littmus Lozenge

Chapter 20 Plan the Party!

Chapters 21-23 Discussion

Chapter 24` Ten Things

Chapter 25 Writing Opportunity

Chapter 26 Symbolism and Discussion

Character Analysis

The ABCs of Because of Winn-Dixie

Final Test

Writing Prompts

Answer Keys

Happy Teaching!

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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

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