A Guide for Using The Cay in the Classroom: A Literature Unit (Literature Units)

This book is really fabulous, presenting a useful overall plan for the novel, and providing many activities to use throughout the unit. I used to within the unit I had to create for my GATE certificate, so I had to modify the activities in order to differentiate the instruction. This was easily accomplished given the high quality of the book and many activities presented. Some of the concepts were difficult for my sixth grade English Language Learners. I found it more useful when I did teach in a gifted and talented environment, as I was able to explore more of the activities in a greater depth. I wouldn't teach "The Cay" without this book!!

The Guide offered great questions and exercises in helping a 6th grader understand the era, the language, and intricate concepts in the Cay. It helps with understanding the historical and geographical aspects of the book as well. It proved to be a great guide that led to a lot of discussion about race and age which led to other research. We found it very helpful.

Really appreciated the extra help the guide for the book The Cay gave. When trying to explain and quiz the children for understanding a teacher looks for easy ways to get the kids to retain the knowledge read. This guide hit the spot. Thanks

I have used this resource with The Cay as a whole class novel for three different classes who have all enjoyed the book. Students love the variety of activities suggested in the teacher resource guide and I love how easy it is to plan my reading lessons!

I like using this book as a resource in which around to build a novel unit. The Cay is a great book to read to my students, and I have used several activities from this book.

This guide is a perfect guide for teaching the Cay. I was given the book to teach my students and needed some items to jump start my activity building. This helped a great deal.

I purchased for my niece. She needed for class. She really enjoyed

Some of the activities were excellent. Couldn't use most of what was in the material.