Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.
Have the children find the answers to questions
Objective: To elicit the details of the story from the children.
Activity: Have the children find the answers to the following:
Name three places Bellini had crossed on the high wire.
What could have happened to make Bellini so afraid?
What did Bellini give Mirette?
What did Mirette give Bellini?
Do fear and courage always go together? A little? A lot?
Assessment: Accuracy of the answers. Let the students look up the answers in the book if they need to
“Mirette on the High Wire” by Emily Arnold McCully