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Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate Book Club Packet: Teacher/Parent Guide + Student Pages with Plans, Answer Keys, Reader's Theatre & Blooket Games
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A tiny World War I bear, a street cat who steals things nobody wants, and a home for tossed and treasured toys.
BONUS INCLUDED: three ready-to-play Blooket review games! A 15-question game for Chapters 1-39, a 28-question game for Chapters 1-65 and a 41-question cumulative game for the whole book, with an answer key. In Blooket, choose Create, then Import from Spreadsheet, and you have a game night in minutes.
Sit back and enjoy this story told by a cat with your students as you use my No Prep Pocket Bear Book Club Packet. It is ONE download with everything the teacher or parent needs and every page the students print.
Pocket Bear is by Katherine Applegate, the author of the Newbery Medal winner The One and Only Ivan, with illustrations by Charles Santoso. It is a funny, gentle story with a lot of heart, and the chapters are short (93 of them, many with pictures), so the reading moves quickly.
This is my Pocket Bear BOOK CLUB edition, built for a classroom group, a homeschool co-op, or a club at your kitchen table. It comes in TWO parts inside one file: PART 1 is the Teacher/Parent Guide with the plans, discussion questions and every answer key, and PART 2 is the Student Pages you print for your readers.
Plan it your way. The guide has a 4-week plan, a 3-session plan and a 2-session plan for 55-minute meetings. Start each meeting with the discussion questions, play Name That Character, and finish with a printable Book Club certificate.
Leave the hard work to me! Print, read, talk, play a Blooket game, and watch your kiddos fall in love with this book.
Covers the following Reading skills:
. Recalling key details and facts from the story
. Finding text evidence to support an answer
. Character traits, character sketch and a character analysis essay outline
. Putting story events in order
. Identifying literary devices (simile, metaphor, idiom, personification) and explaining what they mean
. Making a prediction
. Speaking and listening through discussion and Reader's Theatre
Content note: Common Sense Media rates Pocket Bear age 8 and up. Please preview: the two human characters, Dasha and her mother, are refugees from the war in Ukraine; Dasha's father was killed in the fighting and a bomb badly injured her leg; two toys have sad stories from World War I; a collector tricks the family and takes a toy to auction; and there is a lot of bathroom and gross-out humor, including a scene with dog and baby poop. The ending is hopeful and warm.
Created by Kim Baust, "The Literature Lady," founder of YSA Homeroom by The Young Scholar Academy (online).
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✓ novel study
✓ no prep
✓ reader's theatre
✓ book club
✓ discussion questions
✓ readers theater
Pocket Bear comes with 10 chapter question sets, from Chapters 1-12 through Chapters 84-93, so every part of the book gets talked about. A story kids cannot put down is half the job. The other half is getting them to think about it. Chapter by chapter questions send students back into the text, and the talking that follows is where understanding grows. The What Works Clearinghouse practice guide for upper elementary and up recommends exactly that mix: extended discussion of what a text means, plus direct teaching of comprehension strategies. You bring the book and the conversation. Leave the planning to me.
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Hi, I’m Kim! I’m an educator with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Elementary Education and more than 30 years of classroom experience.
I started The Literature Lady because I wanted to make reading come alive for students—and make lesson planning a lot easier for teachers. I create resources that were way too time-consuming to create while teaching full-time, so that now you don’t have to! My passion is creating engaging, low-prep resources, such as novel studies, Word Noodle vocabulary games, and reader’s theatre scripts, that help kids fall in love with books while building real skills.
When I’m not writing or designing new lessons, you’ll find me teaching right here on the TeacherStore.io community platform! The Young Scholar Academy is an online small group learning community that teaches homeschool students in grades 1-8. We teach core classes, electives, one-on-one tutoring, and so much more! As Tiffany would say, "Come for the classes, stay for the community!"
I am also a fun of reading, baking, traveling, or hanging out with my husband, our two college-aged sons, and our dogs, Maisie and Sophie.
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