The Family Under the Bridge (Novel Study Guide)


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Description

  • eBook Order #: CCP2313
  • Print Book Order #: CC2313
  • Both eBook & Print Book Order #: CC+P2313
  • ISBN13: 978-1-55319-556-6
  • Grades: 3, 4
  • Reading Level: 3-4
  • Total Pages: 55
  • Author: Nat Reed

  • 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, our worksheets incorporate a variety of scaffolding strategies along with additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key.

    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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    Andrea Frank
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    Even though I am using this with my high reading group, they still found it very challenging. They loved the worksearch. Probably a better resource for upper elementary. But it works.

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    Nicole Thoreson
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    The students were able to read and answer the questions. The questions went right along with the reading. Great resource!

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    Andrea Nordbo
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    Excellent recourse! So useful when reading the novel!

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    Rosalind Faulkner
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    My students loved the activity!

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    Kathy Gasper
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    Outstanding

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