Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus Teacher Resource Guide

SD35 Middle School Read Aloud 2023-2024              

Purpose:This Teacher Resource Guide is intended to support and inspire teachers and students in the Langley School District on their reading journey of The Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling.

This novel and thus Teacher Resource Guide is deliberate in addressing topics of belonging, community and inclusion. The guide also includes a variety of research based comprehension and vocabulary strategies that can be universally applied across all middle years classrooms.

This Teacher Resource Guide was created over the 2022-2023 school, in ongoing collaboration with SD35 teachers, administrators, instructional services teachers and learning support services teachers.

Guide Organization:This Teacher Resource Guide is organized into 14 sections.

The Introduction, Teacher Resources, Vocabulary Strategies, Comprehension Strategies and the Annotated Bibliography were created directly for classroom and resource teacher reference and use.

A set of recommended Opening Activities have been created and are recommended to set up classroom systems and hook students into meaningfully engaging with the text.

Weekly support materials, are included directly within each section. This may include graphic organizers, supplementary materials and excerpts from the text itself. We have also tried to hyperlink additional resources for teacher use. All activities and resources are included as suggestions. Teachers are encouraged to adapt and find meaning for their own classrooms and student population.

Full access to Teacher Guide pdf click here.

Resource Guide Sections:

Introduction – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Teacher Resources – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Vocabulary Strategies – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Comprehension – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Opening Activities – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Section 1 – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Section 2 – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Section 3 – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Section 4 – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Section 5 – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Section 6 – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Appendix – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Annotated Bibliography – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

Vocabulary – SD35 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.pdf

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