Jack Gantos
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key and other stories
|Biography and Background|
|Hole in my Life|
|Joey Pigza books|
Jack Gantos
Reading Rockets interviews the author.
Hole in my Life
Scroll down on the page to find a link to the teacher's guide, a 2-page document requiring Adobe Reader for access.
Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos
This digital booktalk — a short video — could serve as a prereading activity.
Jack Henry Books
This 12-page document includes a variety of cross-curricular activities for these books:
- Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a clue
- Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade
- Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade
- Jack's New Power: Stories from a Caribbean Year
- Jack's Black Book
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
Summary and 11 discussion questions.
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
Summary, booktalk, 12 discussion questions, and related titles.
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Are you using the Four Blocks strategy? This 3-page handout might be useful. Access requires Adobe Reader or compatible application.
Make a Splash! Using Dramatic Experience to "Explode the Moment"
In this writing activity students learn to elaborate or "explode moments" in their writing by using descriptive language. After hearing excerpts from popular chapter books that use vivid, sensory language, students participate in a dramatic experience as a springboard for a shared writing activity. This activity uses Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key as a model but will also work well with other texts.
What Would Joey Do? by Jack Gantos
Summary, 4 discussion questions, and 4 activities.
