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Because of Winn-Dixie: Making Lists of Ten |Grades||3 – 5|
|Lesson Plan Type||Standard Lesson| |Estimated Time||Five
50-minute sessions plus independent reading time| In Kate
DiCamillo’s book Because of Winn-Dixie, the protagonist, Opal,
learns about her absent mother when her father shares ten things
about her. Working as a class, students match items from the
list of ten things describing Opal's mother in the novel with
the basic elements of characterization. Next, they work in small
groups to go through the same process with the l