The Family Under the Bridge
Novel Study Guide - Grades 3 to 4 - eBook - Lesson Plan
Description
See CC2313 for the printed copy.
Expose your students to the hardships of poverty and the power that comes with family. Multi-leveled questions and prompts will have students digging deeper while making connections. Investigate the setting to determine what is already known about the historic country of France. Explain what is ironic about Armand's words to the pigeons. Recall what was read by completing a paragraph from the novel with its missing words. Predict what will happen with the children's request to Father Christmas after a cliffhanger. Research information on Provence, Saint Sara or the Tournelle Bridge and create a report with interesting facts on these places mentioned in the novel. Complete an analysis of the novel, detailing the conflict, setting, point of view and theme, among others. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
About the Novel:
The Family Under the Bridge is a Newbery Honor winning story about the Calcet family—a mother and her three children—who end up living under a bridge on the Seine River. Here, they befriend the carefree Parisian hobo, Armand. When two nosy women appear at their makeshift home, and it appears that the authorities have been summoned, Armand takes the family to live with a community of gypsies. Here, they are befriended and their relationship with the old hobo deepens. After promising the children a new home for Christmas, Armand decides his only option is to seek employment, and he manages to get a job as the caretaker of an apartment building, which offers the family a place to stay. Here, they determine to live as one big family, with Armand serving as the grandfather the children never had.
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Product Reviews
Extremely thorough! Thank you.
Great resource. Great quizzes to help check for understanding. Thank you so much.
A great resource!
loved the way this unit was put together. Wish there were more books done in the same format.
My students really enjoyed this book and the activities were grade appropriate.
Great unit for a wonderful book!
Before and after reading activities really help build students reading comprehension.
Some of the other teachers were not use if the students would get into this book, but the group I had really did! We enjoyed discussing it and this packet really helped dive deeper.
Great resource. Helpful and saved me so much planning.
Such a great read at Christmas for my third and fourth graders.
Great resource!
Looks great! I love the consistency with the chapter-by-chapter layout. Great writing tasks, too! Thank you!!!!
nice for response practice
GREAT resource for the novel. I used worksheets from the packet daily in my reading group.
"Comprehensive resource...saved me lots of time! I am excited to do this book with my students!"
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Looks great! I love the consistency with the chapter-by-chapter layout. Great writing tasks, too! Thank you!!!!
Nice for response practice!
GREAT resource for the novel. I used worksheets from the packet daily in my reading group.
Very nice questions and activities to go along with a great novel.
Great resource to use when reading this book as a class or literature circle!
Fabulous resource! I used this with our novel study this Christmas and the students commented that they loved these materials. Thanks!
Excellent! I like the multi-leveled questioning and prompts throughout. This will be used with my higher leveled readers, therefore the questions and prompts which will have them digger deeply while making connections is just what I needed.
This is the first year I have taught this novel. This packet has been my lifesaver!!! Thank you so much for this comprehensive teaching unit! :)
Awesome! Perfect!!!