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Encourage all of your students to have an equal appreciation for this heartwarming tale, using these interactive tools. This is really a book with enough love and excitement already packed in that you should have no problem getting most of your students excited about reading it, but just in case, these games, quizzes and other various lesson ideas should help you to inspire a new class year after year.
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Interactive vocabulary match up - Not exactly an iPad app, but this is a quick interactive activity that your students might enjoy
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Vocab list - Use this interactive list of vocabulary words from Old Yeller to inspire your students to have a passion for the written word
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Test on Old Yeller - 50 Questions long, this multiple choice and true false test will help you gauge whether or not your students have a grasp of the material (but be careful, you probably only want to be inspired by this test, rather than using the entire thing. Or else, you'll just end up testing how well they can memorize answers to an Old Yeller test that they found online.
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Study Guide Full of Activities - Chapter by chapter interactive study questions and vocabulary words
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Compiled Old Yeller Resources - Great list of teaching activities and lesson plans from all around the web. Includes specific information about Old Yeller and also ancillary information, like facts about Texas.
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Chapter by Chapter Activities - Crosswords, circle the wrong word, unscramble words, and more.
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Wikipedia Entry on Old Yeller - Spoiler alert - if you haven't read the book yet, you should not look at this article
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Don't forget about the movie - Students love watching a movie after reading a book. This is part one of eight. Don't just show the movie and then move on to the next topic. Use it as an opportunity to talk about creativity. Interactive activities might be discussions about how the director used images to shape the meaning of the story and how the actors molded the characters.