Supplement your Maniac Magee lesson plans with a packet of student materials. Included here is a variety of questions about the text. Pupils complete multiple choice and short-answer questions and choose from a variety of extension activities and projects. Each section includes all three of these options and covers from five to ten chapters.

Concepts

maniac magee, jerry spinelli, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Because of the way the packet is organized, you could easily split up most of the sections and hand them out separately, or hand out the entire resource as a packet

Classroom Considerations

• Many of the questions are recall, but there are some that require higher-level thinking skills

Pros

• The extension ideas provide opportunities for more extended writing as well as creative expression through projects
• Includes some review about halfway through to ensure that learners are keeping up with what's going on in the story

Cons

• Does not include an answer key