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Brigham Young University

The Giver: Magic Squares

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
Combine math and vocabulary in a fun activity based on Lois Lowry's The Giver. Before kids begin the book, they look up the definitions of 16 vocabulary words and complete a puzzle that will give them the same number.
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The Giver: K-W-H-L Strategy

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Explore the theme of release and death in Lois Lowry's The Giver with a K-W-H-L chart. After noting what they already know, kids come up with a list of questions about topics that they would like to know about, as well as how they...
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The Giver: Lesson 1

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Do “memories need to be shared?" Are “memories…forever?" Would you give up memory to live in a perfect world? Introduce a unit centered on Lois Lowry’s utopian/dystopian novel The Giver with a series of activities that has groups...
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Small Planet Communications

Planet Book Club: Number the Stars

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Planning a novel study of Lois Lowry's Number the Stars? Then look no further. A 16-lesson unit guides students through a reading of this awarding-winning novel. Complete with a synopsis of the novel, analysis of its literary themes,...
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Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry. New York: Dell 1990

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize courage and heroism of Danish and Swedish people and all others who resisted the Nazis, realize that everyone has the capacity to do good as well as evil, and analyze reasons and motivations that caused certain people...
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The Giver Literature Guide - Conflict

For Students 8th - 9th
In The Giver literature guide worksheet, learners read several passages from the novel and identify the type of conflict it exemplifies and explain it.
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The Giver (Middle, Literature)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write down what emotions are evoked by different colors of construction paper. They discuss what they and other students have written. They use this concept to discuss why the community in The Giver is devoid of color.
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Language Arts: Creating Character Maps

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders select characters from books they have read to create character maps. After drawing the maps, they add the characteristics around a sketch of their chosen character. In groups, 3rd graders who have read the same book,...
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Community Map of The Giver

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers read "The Giver" after finishing the unit on inventions and inventors. Using the information in the novel, they develop a geographic map illustrating the community in the story. They identify human and physical features...
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Number the Stars Chapter 16

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Language Arts worksheet, students answer three questions from Number the Starts, Chapter 16. The questions include one literal question, one inferential, and one opinion question.
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Number the Stars Chapter 2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Language Arts worksheet, students answer three questions from Number the Stars, Chapter 2. The questions include 3 literal, 4 inferential, and 2 opinion questions.
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Number the Stars Chapter 3

For Students 5th - 6th
For this Language Arts worksheet, students answer three questions from Number the Stars, Chapter 2. The questions include 3 literal, 3 inferential, and 1 opinion question.
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Number the Stars Chapter 4

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Language Arts learning exercise, students answer three questions from Number the Stars, Chapter 2. The questions include 3 literal, 2 inferential, and 2 opinion questions.
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Number the Stars Chapter 5

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Language Arts worksheet, students answer three questions from Number the Stars, Chapter 2. The questions include 6 literal, 1 inferential, and 3 opinion questions.
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The Giver Chapter 16

For Students 6th - 8th
In this chapter 16 of The Giver worksheet, students complete a chart, filling in the emotional reactions of and changes the main character undergoes during particular scenes of the story.
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The Giver

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders identify the different ideas, emotions that different colors represent the significance of color in real life. They examine the significance of the lack of color in The Giver and the movie Pleasantville. They develop...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: The Giver

For Students 9th - 10th
Lois Lowry's, "The Giver", is an Newbery Award novel. Themes of "The Giver" are diversity, freedom, connections, choice, individuality, honesty, and family. Make the smart choice by reading the novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Giver Authority

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A unit lesson plan using the book The Giver by Louis Lowry that will have learners be researchers and recorders in the process of finding information on Utopian societies, cults and authority. Students will complete a PowerPoint,...