Finding Mother: Teacher's Guide

This workbook for students will assist teachers in fulfilling the state requirements of the Grade-Level Standards for Language Arts. Students will read the nonfiction anthology, Finding Mother: A Journey of Loss and Love, individually or as a group. Then they will do the lessons from this workbook that coincides with the chapters from each of the 4 memoirs. The engaging memoirs are a great reading source for teachers, counselors and students. This Student Workbook must be used in conjuction with the Finding Mother Series of books



The lessons in this workbook will: Improve reading comprehension for students, while changing attitudes and building character.



Individual Study, Classroom Instruction, Group Discussion



Teachers will be able to:

Lead Students in critical thinking exercises.

Help students make personal connections with the text.

Guide students in achieving academic success.



Students will be able to:

Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze and evaluate nonfiction. Identify, discuss and build upon positive character traits.

Reading Comprehension Skills include:

Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sequencing of Events Identifying Cause and EffectInterpreting and Evaluating InformationComparing and ContrastingCharacter Trait DiscussionContextual Meaning Drawing ConclusionsScanningVocabularyPredictionPoint of View Plot Analysis Character AnalysisAnd more...