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A Bargain for Frances Novel Study Curriculum Map

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Frances visits her friend Thelma, who has a habit of taking advantage of her, and ends up being tricked into buying Thelma’s unwanted plastic tea set after being told there are “no backsies.” Frances soon regrets the deal and cleverly finds a way to reverse the bargain, teaching both girls an important lesson about honesty, fairness, and what real friendship should look like.

This resource includes independent activities, a teacher's guide, and a reproducible student booklet, a story summary, and author biography, plus creative activities.

Expectations include:

  • To develop the enjoyment and appreciation of
  • To reinforce and strengthen comprehension, word study and creative thinking skills.
  • To develop the students' ability to read a selected piece of literature independently.
  • To develop oral and written language skills. 

Introduction includes: 

Teacher Notes:

  • Novel Study Organization
    • Summary of the Story
    • Author Biography
    • Teacher Information on Badgers
  • Vocabulary Lists by page
    • Ways to use the vocabulary
  • Teachers Guide
    • Learning Objectives
    • Preparation of Materials
      • Independent Reading Approach
      • Guided Reading Approach
    • Discussion Questions by page
  • Teacher Input Suggestions
  • List of Skills
  • Student Reading Checklist 

Student Booklet

  • Reading Booklet
    • Booklet Cover
    • 8 pages of reading questions 

Novel Extension Activities

  • A combination of half page cards and full worksheets 
  • Working With Words Activities
    1. Match the Antonyms
    2. Compound Words
    3. Root Words
    4. Singular and Plural
    5. Syllable Fun
    6. Rhyming Word Search
    7. Looing for Words
    8. Adding Suffixes
    9. Brainstorming Fun
    10. Brainstorming Fun
    11. Alphabetical Order
    12. Contractions

 

  • Fun to Do Activities
    1. Plastic Collage
    2. China Things
    3. Which tea set would you like?
    4. Story Time
    5. Acrostic Poem
    6. Who do you like the best?
    7. Money in Pictures
    8. Writing Money in Words
    9. Can you add the money?
    10. Matching Money to Words
    11. What does money look like?
    12. Subtracting money to find the answer.
    13. Talking on the Telephone
    14. Skipping and Rhyming 

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