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The Picasso Curse by Dan Gutman: Comprehension Book Packet with Answer Keys, Assessments & 2 Reader's Theatre Scripts
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No-prep comprehension packet for Dan Gutman’s The Picasso Curse: chapter-by-chapter question sets with answer keys, a mid-book quiz, and an end-of-book test, bonus puzzles and activities, plus two ready-to-perform Reader’s Theatre scripts.
Grades 3-6.
DESCRIPTION:
When twelve-year-old Edwin buys a Kobe Bryant poster for ten dollars at a flea market, he finds a squiggly doodle hidden behind it. Experts say it could be a real Picasso worth millions.
Suddenly everyone wants it: a shady dealer, bullying classmates, TV reporters, and an auction house. Dan Gutman’s funny, fast-paced mystery weaves in the true story of the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa, and it ends with a decision that your students will have strong opinions about! Whoa!!
Sit back and enjoy this fast read with your students as you use my No Prep The Picasso Curse Comprehension Book Packet, which includes chapter-by-chapter comprehension questions, two assessments, bonus activities, AND two Reader’s Theatre scripts retelling key scenes from the book. It will guide your students and promote enjoyment and comprehension of this high-interest novel that kids are going to love!
ABOUT THE PRODUCT:
Work on student comprehension, inference, character growth, vocabulary, and more, all while encouraging a love of reading through a book kids can’t put down. Perfect for a shorter novel study: the packet is paced for about 3 weeks.
Leave the hard work to me! This novel is sure to become a favorite of yours and your students!
My The Picasso Curse Comprehension Book Packet works well with whole-class instruction, small groups, literature circles, independent work, or Homeschool students!
Covers the following Reading standards:
Knowledge level understanding including fact recall
Explain and describe
Identify key plot points
Provide text evidence to support
Analyze
Inference
Format
PDF
✓ Thorough & scaffolded comprehension questions for every chapter (true/false, fill in the blank, multiple choice, and wri
✓ Mid-Book Quiz & End-of-Book Test
✓ Comprehensive Answer Keys for all questions and assessments
✓ TWO Reader’s Theatre scripts: “The Doodle’s Journey” (Chapters 1-6) and “The Shredding” (Chapters 11-14), with cover pag
✓ Review activities: Connections (2 levels), Word Search and Crossword Puzzle
✓ Charts and writing: Characters chart, Doodle Sequencing, Edwin’s Big Decisions chart, Prediction Writing
✓ My Reading Philosophy and Content Warnings, Book Packet instructions and teaching suggestions, Clickable Table of Conten
✓ Question Sets (all chapters divided into easy-to-teach groupings) with Answer Keys to all question sets, quizzes, and as
✓ Mid-Book Quiz (Chapters 1-8) and End-of-Book Test (matching, true/false, fill in the blank, and written response)
✓ 2 Reader’s Theatre scripts (about 100 lines each, 16 flexible parts)
✓ Characters chart, sequencing, decisions chart, and prediction writing
✓ Review pages (Connections, Word Search, Crossword) with answer keys, 77 total pages, and a PDF print version
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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.
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