Lawn Boy Novel Study Digital Comprehension Questions Vocabulary Activities

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Grade Levels

5th - 7th

Subjects

Reading, Business, Economics

Resource Type

Activities, Literature Circles

Standards

CCSSCCRA.R.1

CCSSCCRA.R.2

CCSSCCRA.R.3

CCSSCCRA.R.4

CCSSCCRA.R.5

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54+digital

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LIGHT a FIRE of entrepreneurship in your students with this EXHILARATING novel.

Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen is an OUT of THIS WORLD novel to read with your upper elementary or middle school students. Lawn Boy is jam packed with amazing economics vocabulary and teaches students about how hard work pays off.

Learn about how Lawn Boy grows a business using his grandfather's lawn mower. A great coming of age story that circles around economics and entrepreneurship. Tie your Social Studies right into your ELA.

Students will:

learn new economics vocabulary
apply learned vocabulary to new sentences
answer comprehension questions using proof from the book (quotes)
analyze business decisions & relationships
complete fun activities
learn about the stock market
understand how hard work pays off!

This resource comes with teacher plans, DIGITAL Google Slides edition (with directions) including comprehension questions, vocabulary assignments, fun activities, AND a black and white print version.

Gary Paulsen hit it out of the park with this one!

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CCSSCCRA.R.1

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

CCSSCCRA.R.2

Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

CCSSCCRA.R.3

Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

CCSSCCRA.R.4

Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

CCSSCCRA.R.5

Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

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