Pippi Longstocking Discovery Guide

This extensive Discovery Guide workbook covers comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, grammar & enrichment ideas related to Pippi Longstocking. As students read, they complete worksheets, writing topics, hands-on activities and field trips.

The Discovery Guide is broken down into weekly units in which students read a section of the novel and answers comprehension questions pertaining to those chapters. Each unit contains a variety of critical thinking activities including projects, drawing, writing assignments, and a puzzles which correlate to chapters in the novel. Writing assignments apply concepts in the story to the student's life and many passages are chosen to emphasize Biblical lessons that relate to the story.

Total Language Plus Discovery Guides are designed to take about 8 to 10 weeks to complete. Depending on the number of activities students perform and the degree of emphasis placed on composition skills, this study guide may serve as your complete Language Arts curriculum.

Barbara's Notes: Boys and girls alike will marvel at Pippi's strength and laugh at her antics. Each chapter is actually a short story, allowing us to investigate story writing in general, and tall tales in particular.

Book Summary — 160 pages

Book Category — Tall tale

Theme — Friendship

Setting — Small village in Sweden

Novel Study Highlights — 7 units

Spelling-Vocabulary — Difficult

Biblical Focus — Psalm 139

Related Studies — World Geography, Swedish culture

Grammar/Writing — Verb agreement/tall tales