Westing game

The Westing Game Characters - Who's Who? TURTLE WEXLER Age and physical description: • 13 years old• small• wears a long braid down her back Personality:

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Language Arts Unit Plan: The Westing Game This is a unit I developed for teaching The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. This unit was dev...

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Newbery Medal winner The Westing Game will keep the reader guessing 'who did it' from beginning to end. Get ideas for your unit here.

Files I Used: editable bingo template (.doc) | bingo template (.pdf) bingo instructions student handout (.pdf) bingo stations (.pdf) bingo stations colour-coded for teachers (.pdf)

Today I'm sharing preteaching tips and visual aids for teaching The Westing Game! Just click the link! #TheWestingGame #ELA #NovelStudy #MiddleSchoolELA

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. The first mystery I ever read. I think I was 9 years old.

We have been working on wanted posters for The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin with one of my reading groups. They are perfect for this book because there are 16 characters to choose from and they decide who they think would be responsible for the murder. I use the following rubric and directions. Here are some examples from last year.... Berthe Crow Wanted Poster James Hoo Wanted Poster If you would like to see more activities for The Westing Game, please see my post on the book unit for my…

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Newbery Medal winner The Westing Game will keep the reader guessing 'who did it' from beginning to end. Get ideas for your unit here.

Westing game novel project

Ellen Raskin often remarked during her career that she wished she had known “where children’s books come from” while she was a young UW-Madison art student. She wanted to make it possible for future UW-Madison students to see something of the creative process of writing a manuscript, the editorial process and matters concerning page and…

The unsuspecting residents of Sunset Towers are summoned to the reading of a mysterious will, only to find themselves locked in a thrilling game, as they must

Read aloud time is a very sacred, coveted time in our classroom. My kids beg for more of it and some of the best conversations and deepest thinking happens during this time. We are starting my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE read aloud in our classroom this week, The Westing Game. We are knee-deep in our character unit...

From The Westing Game, Chris is just so 👌 🔥

One activity that stands out was her read-aloud of The Westing Game. Quickly, this novel became one of my all-time favorite books. I knew that I HAD to teach it in my own classroom. Thanks to Scholastic's Dollar Deals, I quickly acquired a class set of novels and we got right to work.

We are about finished with our Beyond Five in a Row unit on Helen Keller. So I asked the boys what they were interested in studying. Noah said, "Animals", which is what we are doing for science next year. Zach said he wanted to study mysteries or detectives. So I decided that for the rest of the school year we would do a unit on mysteries! This is going to be so much fun! Here is what I have in store for the boys. First of all, our read aloud is going to be The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin…

If you are reading The Westing Game or any other book with a large number of characters to keep track of, a large, wall-sized character chart may be just right for your students. One of my favorite books to teach (obviously) is The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. You may have seen my other posts on the wanted posters or the way I use interactive notebooks to teach the book. Because there are 16 characters, the kids always have trouble getting started and keeping them straight. Then, as we…

THE WESTING GAME. 16 CHARACTERS + 1. James Shin Hoo – Restaurateur- Runs restaurant in Sunset Towers 2. Madame Sun Lin Hoo – James’ wife – Cook for the restaurant in Sunset Towers