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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Tuck Everlasting

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Use Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

Natalie Babbitt's classic fantasy novel, Tuck Everlasting, follows the adventures of ten-year-old Winnie Foster who is eager to leave her home in Treegap in search of adventure. The novel explores the idea of making a difference. Students will have the opportunity to explore the choices Winnie makes and the value of life inside of expertly crafted scenes. By using extensive imagery and figurative language the author invites readers to engage with similes, metaphors, and personification to construct meaning and developing an appreciation of figurative language.
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Instructional Overview

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Instructional Overview

The instructional overview includes instructional background for figurative language, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to the Tuck Everlasting Book Club.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.6.7RL.6.9RL.6.10W.6.8W.6.9RL.6.1SL.6.1aRL.6.2SL.6.1bRL.6.3SL.6.1cRL.6.4L.6.6RL.6.5L.6.4aRL.6.6L.6.5
TEKS Alignment
  • 6.3A6.286.3B6.3C6.46.6A6.6B6.6C6.86.96.26A6.27
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Management Resources

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Management Resources

The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.
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Meeting 1

Author Natalie Babbitt uses figurative language to tell the story of Tuck Everlasting. This Book Club begins with an introduction to the power the author's words have in creating strong mental images for the reader.
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Meeting 2

This Tuck Everlasting Book Club meeting focuses on identifying the metaphors that author Natalie Babbitt uses to tell the story. Students will examine how metaphors help them visualize the story elements.
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Meeting 3

In Tuck Everlasting, author Natalie Babbitt creates a magical feeling through the use of similes. Student discussion will include how the use of similes helps them to better understand the text.
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Meeting 4

The use of personification helps the reader to create vivid mental images which leads to a more complete understanding of the story. Natalie Babbitt creates a fairytale-like setting for the reader to visualize in Tuck Everlasting.
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Meeting 5

Author Natalie Babbitt's careful choice of words in Tuck Everlasting provides the reader with both positive and negative connotations. Exploring the additional meaning that goes with the author's choice of words is the focus of this Book Club meeting.
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Meeting 6

This final Tuck Everlasting Book Club meeting allows the students to reflect on how author Natalie Babbitt's use of figurative language enhances the reader's understanding of the text.
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Vocabulary Connections with Tuck Everlasting

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Vocabulary Connections with Tuck Everlasting

This set of vocabulary development resources for Tuck Everlasting highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book.  Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.6.6L.6.4aL.6.5
TEKS Alignment
  • 6.2B6.2A6.2C
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Focus Assessment and Rubric

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Focus Assessment and Rubric

Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with figurative language.
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Running Record with Tuck Everlasting

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Running Record with Tuck Everlasting

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Tuck Everlasting. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Management Resources - Spanish

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Management Resources - Spanish

The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.
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About the Book

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Title: Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Friendship, Adventure
ISBN: 9780374302030
Publisher's Summary:
What if you could live forever? Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family’s property whose waters grant immortality. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never growing older. But then Winnie must decide whether or not to keep the Tucks’ secret—and whether or not to join them on their never-ending journey.
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