Free A Long Walk to Water Activity

Add this free paired text activity to your A Long Walk to Water novel study. Students will gain background information about the geography, lifestyle, customs, and setting of the novel through the reading and activities to use with My Great-Grandmother's Gourd.

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Students will learn:

• about the setting of the novel, A Long Walk to Water
• background information to better understand concepts in the novel
• geography of Sudan
• lifestyle and customs of Sudanese people
• important vocabulary terms
• review literary skills of identifying character traits, conflict, and theme

This FREE A Long Walk to Water activity includes:

• Teacher tips and how to use resource page
• Vocabulary terms: Arabic terms that are unfamiliar to students and important vocabulary to know
• Vocabulary word cards: Great for lower level and ELL/ESL students. Words cards feature four important terms from the story, its definition, and a picture to help students visualize the term.
• Worksheet for reading My Great-Grandmother's Gourd to review the story's setting, conflict, figurative language, and theme.
• Paired text worksheet to use after reading both the picture book and A Long Walk to Water. Students will analyze the conflicts and character traits in both texts and develop a common theme that could relate to the two stories.

How to use this free activity in your classroom:

• Prereading activity
• Literacy center
• Enrichment activity
• Book club
• Sub plans

Teacher feedback:

• This was an excellent resource! It was relevant, useful, easy for the kids to follow, and enjoyable.
• Love, Love this using this book as a teaching tool in 6th grade World Cultures. The kids love it, and it keeps them engaged.
• Great resource. After reading your blog, I am looking at A Long Walk to Water on Amazon to buy. Thank you for creating interesting products and how you help students (and us!)
  

Other lessons and activities to support A Long Walk to Water:

• Prereading WebQuest
• A Long Walk to Water Novel Study for Struggling Readers
• A Long Walk to Water Unit
• Graphic Organizers

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