Letters from Rifka Student Workbook -- Common Core Aligned

This is a 50 page student workbook to guide students as they read independently, in small groups, or as a whole class.

Includes:

Cultural Vocabulary
Connecting to Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Theme
Compare and Contrast
Analyzing Setting
Mapping Activity
Character Analysis
Text Evidence
Inferencing
Journal Pages with Twitter summary and WOW words
Theme
Conflict
Problem/Solution
Point of View
Double Timeline

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These print easily in black and white and can be copied front to back to save paper. Compile all of them as a workbook, or use them separately as needed. This workbook was designed to keep students engaged and interacting with the text as they read the novel.

I read this novel because it meets many of our fifth-grade social studies standards about immigration to the United States at the turn of the century.

Common Core Aligned

RL.5.1 – Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

RL.5.2 – Determine a theme of a story from details in the text, including how characters in a story respond to challenges; summarize the text.

RL.5.3 – Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story drawing on specific details in the text.

RL.5.4 – Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

RL.5.6 – Describe how a narrator’s point of view influences how events are described.

RL.5.9 – Compare and contrast stories in the same genre