Stone Fox

This story just melts my heart!  I cry at the end every time! My students are loving this story.  We finished it today and had to discuss what it means to have a bittersweet ending.


Stone Fox is about a little boy named Willy.  His grandfather is sick.  It is up to Willy to save the farm and Grandfather!  Willy is a tough little boy that faces his problems head on.  He takes on harvesting the potatoes by himself with only the help of his best friend Searchlight (a ten year old husky). He will have you rooting for him throughout the story.  The ending is bittersweet, but I will let you read it for yourself!

  

I love this interactive journal from Lovin' Lit!  I used her journal to introduce each story element I wanted to teach in Stone Fox.  It was so explicit for my students.This is a plot mountain diagram from her journal.  I'm definitely using her informational interactive journal for our next unit as well! 

I followed her plot diagram with a plot mountain from my Stone Fox novel study.

This is a characterization chart from Lovin' Lit's interactive journal that I used for Stone Fox.

After learning about character traits and how to look for evidence in the text, the students recorded traits on their own about little Willy.

My students answered task cards from my novel study after we read and discussed each chapter.

Happy reading! :)