The Dark Is Rising - An Instructional Guide for Literature

Grades 4-12.

Use this guide to introduce students to this sensational, award-winning story and encourage them to analyze Will’s journey to defeat the dark. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities were written to support the story and incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. Designed to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more. Correlated to the academic standards of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Dependents Schools, and all Canadian provinces. Teacher plan and student pages are broken down in sections or chapters depending on the book. Questions are written at two levels of complexity to allow the teacher to decide which questions best meet the needs of their students. In each section of lesson plans teachers will see activities to use literature as a writing prompt. 72 pages.