Pippi Longstocking Study Guide
Study Guide for Pippi Longstocking
This extensive study guide workbook covers comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, grammar & enrichment ideas related to Pippi Longstocking for 4th-5th graders. As students read, they complete worksheets, writing topics, hands-on activities and field trips.
The study 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 study 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. (Grades 4, 5)
About the book: Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
Tommy and Anika wish someone would move in next door, someone with a playmate for them, but they have no idea of the adventures in store when Pippi becomes their new neighbor. They've never known anyone like her!
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
