Smoky night by eve bunting pdf

Kim's cat is missing, too. Where are they? They can't be with each other. Those cats don't get along Thank you for this thoughtful review. It gives me a perspective that I will pass on to my elementary teaching staff. This book is somewhat prized as multicultural fiction in my school district. Unit Plans. Word Walls. Don't see what you looking for? Some filters moved to Formats filters, which is at the top of the page. All Resource Types. Results for smoky night 90 results. Sort: Relevance.

Smoky Night by Eve Bunting is a book unit. It includes Common Core Aligned before, during and after reading comprehension and vocabulary activities for the book unit, Smoky Night. Balanced Literacy , Reading Strategies , Writing. Guided Reading Books , Printables , Worksheets. Show more details. Wish List. This purchase will make teaching fiction TDAs a breeze! One week's worth of materials focused on analyzing a text and writing a TDA. Students will read "Smoky Night" a fiction text by Eve Bunting and analyze a prompt, write a text dependent analysis, answer comprehension questions, complete a plot.

Look no further for a perfect digital companion to this read aloud. English Language Arts , Literature , Reading. Activities , Assessment. Smoky Night Story Study. This is a story study for Smoky Night by Eve Bunting. English Language Arts , Reading. Novel Study , Printables , Worksheets.

Smoky Night Book Activites. This product includes 3 activities to accompany the book Smoky Night by Eve Bunting. This product includes: -"Before You Read" Activity to activate prior knowledge -Book Review page -Inferencing activity where students look at text from the story and infer what it means -Beginning, Middle and End Gr.

Close Reading , Literature , Reading. Activities , Novel Study. Riots, Caldecott Medal. Riots as seen through the eyes of a child allows students to see and understand the urban violence of a riot gone wild.

Told in the first person by a boy. Character Education , Informational Text , U. Print and go. Visit my store for plenty more word searches. Follow to see new products. English Language Arts , Vocabulary. Smoky Night by Eve Bunting. Smoky Night vocabulary bingo. Finally, a fun way to reinforce the language of literature with small groups or the whole class! This familiar activity will have students actively thinking about and discussing the words Eve Bunting used to bring the story of Smoky Night to life.

Because students only have to recognize the word mat. English Language Arts , Literature , Vocabulary. Activities , Games , Literacy Center Ideas. Students can respond to the book Smoky Night by writing how empathy helped the characters connect and illustrating it. Reading , Reading Strategies. Smoky Night Literature Guide. PDF EBooks. Literature Guides are page ready-to-print PDF files. On one hand, I appreciated seeing the riots through the eyes of a child and felt Bunting handled it in a deft way, not being too heavy-handed or graphic but still presenting the fright and the incredulity and awfulness.

I was very glad that it ended on a positive note and that the cats were safe! It was nice to feel that something hopeful came out of the situation.

This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers. Show full review. Smoky Night is about a young boy named Daniel and his night living through street riots. He watches out the window as people steal TVs, shoes, clothes, and food.

He is woken up in the middle of the night to realize their apartment building is on fire and his cat, Jasmine, is missing. This story starts out simply being a boy and his cat. By the end of the story, the cat is the focal point, sending the reader the theme of the story. There are so many ways to use this book in a classroom. For independent reading, this book can be used in a 2nd grade classroom.

In a 4th grade classroom the students can begin looking at the language used. What does this look like to students? What animals pounce? What would flames pouncing look like?

Tone, imagery, theme, symbolism the two cats from different owners of different races holding paws , foreshadowing, point of view, conflict, diction, etc. I found myself easily considering bringing this story to use with my 6th graders. In a middle school classroom this book would be great to begin a discussion on racial issues or riots. Also, really understanding and breaking down the text and what the author is creating by the end of the story is something younger grades might not pick up on yet.

Not only are the words powerful, the images are fascinating. Some background pages look like pieces of paper crumpled and glued together, others like pieces of a cement wall.

David Diaz photographed each one. Each page represents what is going on in the story. When Mrs. The images on top of the photographs are colorful and abstract, giving the appearance of sidewalk chalk drawings. The search for Daniel's cat continues throughout the whole story and Daniel's cat and his neighbors cat are finally retrieved and returned to Daniel from a firefighter.

Smoky Night. I like the photograph quality on the left hand side of each page. Watching news coverage of the Los Angeles riots, Eve Bunting wondered how children perceive such events, especially those who actually live through them. They quickly soak up and internalize the values and cultural markers of their parents and communities. This isn't an easy book to read as an adult because I grasp what it means, probably moreso than a child would.

Publisher: Voyager Books Harcourt Inc.. Daniel and his mother then both go to bed assuming the riots are over, but they quickly learn that their building is then on fire and have to quickly evacuate. Skip to content — Uncategorized —.