Story Summary:

For his birthday Omri is given a cupboard and on inserting a key into the lock, he discovers that it has magic properties. Here begins a series of adventures in which he brings a small plastic Indian figure to life. There follows a series of riveting adventures in which Omri is forced to bring to life several other characters.

Learning Expectations:

The students will learn to:

• read accurately and purposefully and to show an understanding of the main ideas, events, and characters in the text.
• be stimulated to use higher order reading skills, such as the ability to use inference and deduction where appropriate.
• use the novel as a basis from which to develop and practice a range of language arts skills, such as using grammatically complex sentences and to accurately spell polysyllabic words.

Introduction Includes:

• Introduction:
  • Expectations, Summary of the Story and All About the Author
• Teacher Input Suggestions
• List of Vocabulary
• Blank Writing Sheet
• Answer Key 

Chapter Questions

Chapters One to Chapter Sixteen – each includes a Task Sheet and Worksheet 

Supplementary Worksheets:

1. Putting words in the right order to form clear sentences.
2. and 3. Using evidence to share about Omri’s character.
3. Little Bear (Bull) Character
4. Finish the second sentence of each pair of sentences so that it means the same as the first one.
5. Words with the same meaning.
6. Adverbs
7. Writing a Limerick
8. Write the rest of a play script to tell what happened next.
9. Copy out the following sentences, putting in speech marks, capital letters, commas, and periods
10. Copying sentences with who is speaking in the middle, using commas, speech marks, capital letters and periods.
11. Adding two adjectives for each noun. 

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