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Teacher's Study Guides and Lesson Plans for Newbery Medal Award-Winning Children's Books

See links below for study guides and lesson plans to use when teaching these award-winning books to your middle-school classes and for use in home-schooling. The Newberry Medal* is awarded each year to the most distinguished contribution to children's literature published in the U.S.

Lesson Plans for Newbery Medal Winners:

bulletCrispin: Cross of Lead
bulletBud, Not Buddy Lesson Plans (2000 Newbery Medal)
bulletHoles (1999 Newbery Medal)
bulletOut of the Dust (1998 Newberry Medal*)
bulletThe View From Saturday (1997 Newbery Medal)
bulletThe Midwife's Apprentice (1996)
bulletWalk Two Moons (1995 Newberry Medal*)
bulletThe Giver (1994 Newbery Medal Winner)
bulletMissing May (1993)
bulletShiloh (1992 Newbery Medal)
bulletManiac Magee (1991)
bulletNumber the Stars (1990)
bulletHatchet (1988 Newbery Honor)
bulletThe Whipping Boy (1987)
bulletSarah, Plain and Tall (1985)
bulletSign of the Beaver (1984 Newbery Honor)
bulletBridge to Terabithia (1978)
bulletRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1977)
bulletMy Brother Sam is Dead (1975 Newbery Honor)
bulletSounder (1970 Newbery Honor)
bulletFrom the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967 Newbery Medal Winner)
bulletA Wrinkle in Time (1963)
bulletIsland of the Blue Dolphins (1961 Newbery Award)
bulletThe Cricket in Times Square (1961 Newbery Honor)
bulletThe Witch of Blackbird Pond (1959 Newbery)
bulletOld Yeller (1957 Honor Book)
bulletCharlotte's Web (1953 honor winner)
bulletJohnny Tremain (1944)

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Engaging Discussion Questions, Vocabulary Builders, Writing Prompts, and Great Literature Response Activities These easy, motivating activities take students "into," "through," and "beyond" 25 of your favorite Newbery books. Students will love and learn from these classroom-tested prompts, activities, and vocabulary builders. Books include: Out of the Dust, Shiloh, Maniac Magee, Walk Two Moons, Hatchet, and 20 others. Includes lots of student samples.

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Cliffs Notes provides background on the authors, summaries, character descriptions and character maps, plus class activities and review exercises for each of the 10 Newberry winners from the 1990s : Holes, Out of the Dust, View from Saturday, Midwife's Apprentice, Walk Two Moons, The Giver, Missing May, Shiloh, Maniac Magee, Number the Stars.

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*Note: the mis-spellings of Newbery on this page are included so that those who have inadvertantly mis-typed the term into search engines can still find information on this site.

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