The Critical Thinking Consortium: A Teacher's Guide to the Gardener [Pdf]

The Gardener by Sarah Stewart won the Caldecott Honor in 1998. It centres around a set of letters about a young girl who moved from the countryside to the city. In the lessons in this teaching guide, students must make inferences from the letters and ask questions as they try to learn more than the letters tell them. In a followup task that builds on the storyline, they plan and carry out an act of kindness. Blackline masters and a rubric are included.