This teacher's guide is designed to help classroom teachers use the graphic novel series, Tales From Big Spirit, by David A. Robertson. The guide provides detailed lessons that meet a wide range of language arts and social studies goals, integrate Indigenous perspectives, and make curricular content more accessible to diverse learners.
The guide includes:
- general instructional ideas for deepening readers' comprehension of text.
- a framework to further develop students' thinking about history.
- information about aspects of graphic novels and how to use them in the classroom.
- specific instructional ideas and suggestions for each graphic novel.
- detailed teaching and learning sequences (before-, during-, and after-reading format).
- strategies and reproducible classroom materials that support and stimulate student learning.
- historical images that may be reproduced.