The Spiderwick Chronicles - CurrClick

The Spiderwick
Chronicles
by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
A Highlights
Literature Unit
Presented by
The Highlights of Homeschooling
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Just allow your student to read the PDF version of the unit study on
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Unit. You can always print them out if you like as well.
You may need craft materials, poster board and other items to
complete some of the projects.
To use this study we have divided each book into three
lessons.
You may want to spend several days on each lesson.
For each lesson there is:
Daily Journaling about the adventure
Who, what, where, when, why and how questions.
True and False questions.
Vocabulary words to write the definition, antonym, synonym for.
A Main Idea, A Key Event, Prediction, Compare and Contrast, Fact and
Opinion section
Two blank strips to write three events that happened in each lesson. These
will be used in a sequence of events activity.
Handwriting Section.
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Following the chapter studies there are other activities. You can do all of
them or pick and choose those you like: There are 20 in each section so
you could even have different students do different projects.
Literature Theme Activities
Writing Activities
Poster Board Activities
Newspaper Writing Activities
Literature Fun Art Activities

Vocabulary Activities:
Each day, read the words for the book you are
on and discuss the meanings of the words.
While doing this study the teacher can create several
activities to help with vocabulary.
1. Concentration: Instead of having the students write the words and definition
in a notebook, have them write the word on one index card and the definition
on another. At the end of the lesson, lay all the cards out, face down. Play concentration.
A student turns over two cards, if the cards are the correct word and
definition they keep the pair. Continue until all the pairs have been made.
2. Word Tiles: On index cards write 1-3 letters for each word. Let the student
then put the words together by laying the tiles next to one another.
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3. Decode: Create a code, where each letter of the
alphabet is a number or a shape. Write the words in code format on a paper.
Have the student solve the word by looking at the code.
4. ABC Order: Have students put the words from the list in alphabetical
order.
5. Syllables: Have students figure out how many syllables each of the
spelling words have.

Vocabulary List
Book 1
squinted
garish
indeterminate
eruption
scrabbling
brocaded
gimmicky
reflexes
twitched
deliberately
sibling
erratically
demented
skeptically
ascent
illuminated
rustling
scrunched
dramatically
profusion
frustration
compartment
embossed
fantastical
parries
suspiciously
intrigues
gurgling
liberal
malicious
rubbish
manipulating
Book 2
dilapidated
menagerie
wrought
resurfaced
adjustable
wrenched
monocle
resolved
substitute
collapsed
gnashing
impatiently
sprawled
abruptly
remnants
woven
oblivion
hefting
apparently
interrogate
gruesome
ghostly
heedless
nauseous
glinted
zigzag
extraordinary
relish
arduous
pathetic
irresponsible
Book 3
devices brandish
transfixed obscured
recuperating faithless
asylum
deteriorate
absently
iodine
content
iridescent
embroidered
bespectacled
beatifically
transfixed
unified
disoriented
indignantly
sedated
abandoned
skeptically
scowled
annoyance
amiably
affronted
vigorously
captivity
entwining
gnarled
unnerved
brutal
cleave
encounter
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Vocabulary List
Book 4
smattering quashed
grungy malice
contaminate gestured
apparently smirked
quarry ineffectually
saluted fissure
automation emphasize
suspicion quivered
confronted horde
stalk throng
smirked duped
gingerly
uncoiled
urinal
engraved
hollow
clambered
expelled
mottled
sluggish
dimly
illuminating
confiscated
hewn
foothold
intricate
mechanical
filigree
mortal
superiority
ruthless
Book 5
hireling hurtling
stricken plummeted
desecration threadbare
menacingly furrowed
grimly commotion
feline elongated
feral skittering
defending docile
shards mammoth
frustrated dispersed
reckless dismount
inquisitive
anticipated
luxury
elders
squabbly
typical
culled
vain
jostle
spires
haphazard
tricorned
scallywag
tether
opalescent
immune
corrugated
writhing
squirming
boon
fearsome
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Book 1 Chapters 1,2
Who What Where When Why How
Write your answers in full sentences in your notebook.
1. Who would have been a veterinarian?
____________________________________________________________
2. What did the new house look like?
____________________________________________________________
3. Where was Jared’s bruise?
____________________________________________________________
4. When did Jared hear something in the wall?
____________________________________________________________
5. Why did Jared think anything could be in the house?
____________________________________________________________
6. How did everyone feel about something in the walls?
____________________________________________________________
TF They were moving because Jared got kicked out of school.
TF Lemon drop was a mouse.
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1. Who pretended not to notice the mice?
____________________________________________________________
2. What did Mallory think she heard?
____________________________________________________________
3. Where did the scuttling grow louder?
____________________________________________________________
4. When was Jarred pleased?
____________________________________________________________
5. Why did they think the squirrel was demented?
____________________________________________________________
6. How did Jared feel in the last sentence of the chapter?
____________________________________________________________
TF Simon really wanted to ride the dumbwaiter.
TF Mallory broke a hole in the wall with a broom.

Write the answers for these in your notebook.
Main Idea: What was the main idea of these chapters?
____________________________________________________________
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Key Event: What was the most important event?
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Prediction: Predict what you think will happen in the story next.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Comparison: Compare two things in these chapters. Tell
what makes them alike and what makes them different.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
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Fact or Opinion: Write one sentence that is a Fact about
the chapters and one sentence that is an Opinion based on the chapters.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

Sequence of Events: On 3 strips of paper, write three
main events that happened in these chapters. Save these strips for the
Sequence of Events Activity.
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Handwriting: In your notebook, write this statement. Use
your best penmanship.
In which the children move to a new house and hear strange noises.
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Vocabulary: Look up 10 words from the vocabulary list and
write their definition in your notebook. On the back of the page write any
synonyms or antonyms for the words.
1.
____________________________________________________________
2.
____________________________________________________________
3.
____________________________________________________________
4.
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5.
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6.
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7.
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8.
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9.
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10.
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Journal
Imagine that you are a character from the story. Each
lesson you will write a journal entry in your notebook
telling about your thoughts of what is happening to you
or to someone in the story.
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
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_____________________________________________
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Book 1 Chapters 3,4
Who What Where When Why How
Write your answers in full sentences in your notebook.
1. Who called from downstairs?
____________________________________________________________
2. What was scrawled in the dust?
____________________________________________________________
3. Where did Jared hear a creak?
____________________________________________________________
4. When did Simon tell Jared he believed him?
____________________________________________________________
5. Why didn’t Jared reply to Simon?
____________________________________________________________
6. How did Jared get back to the kitchen?
____________________________________________________________
T F The paper had a map on it.
T F Mallory and Simon lied to their mother about where Jared was.
1. Who did mother seem to imply had tied Mallory to the bed?
____________________________________________________________
2. What was the only clue so far?
____________________________________________________________
3. Where did Jared go up to?
____________________________________________________________
4. When didn’t bad things happen?
____________________________________________________________
5. Why would the trunk be considered a chest?
____________________________________________________________
6. How did Jared find the book?
____________________________________________________________
T F The drawings in the book are water color.
T F Jared did not go up the spiral staircase?
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Write the answers for these in your notebook.
Main Idea: What was the main idea of these chapters?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Key Event: What was the most important event?
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Prediction: Predict what you think will happen in the story next.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Comparison: Compare two things in these chapters. Tell
what makes them alike and what makes them different.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
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Fact or Opinion: Write one sentence that is a Fact about
the chapters and one sentence that is an Opinion based on the chapters.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

Sequence of Events: On 3 strips of paper, write three
main events that happened in these chapters. Save these strips for the
Sequence of Events Activity.
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Handwriting: In your notebook, write this quote from the
story. Use your best penmanship.
In which Mallory is tied to the bed and the field guide is found.
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Vocabulary: Look up 10 words from the vocabulary list and
write their definition in your notebook. On the back of the page write any
synonyms or antonyms for the words.
1.
____________________________________________________________
2.
____________________________________________________________
3.
____________________________________________________________
4.
____________________________________________________________
5.
___________________________________________________________
6.
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7.
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8.
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9.
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10.
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Journal
Imagine that you are a character from the story. Each
lesson you will write a journal entry in your notebook
telling about your thoughts of what is happening to you
or to someone in the story.
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
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_____________________________________________
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Book 1 Chapters 5,6,7
Who What Where When Why How
Write your answers in full sentences in your notebook.
1. Who was the book Jared found about?
____________________________________________________________
2. What kind of book was it?
____________________________________________________________
3. Where had Jared said he found Arthur Spiderwick’s stuff?
____________________________________________________________
4. When do brownies turn into boggarts?
____________________________________________________________
5. Why did Jared put flour on the floor?
____________________________________________________________
6. How had Mallory gone to bed?
____________________________________________________________
T F Jared’s mother saw flour on the floor at night.
T F Boggarts are brothers to the brownies.
1. Who was angry?
____________________________________________________________
2. What did Jared see in the flour?
____________________________________________________________
3. Where were the tad poles?
____________________________________________________________
4. When did Jared start cleaning things up?
____________________________________________________________
5. Why did mother think Jared made the mess?
____________________________________________________________
6. How would mom handle it if anything else bad happens?
____________________________________________________________
T F Mom is upset that Jared brings the boggart’s things back into the
house.
T F Simon believes the boggart did the bad things.
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1. Who was the bird house for?
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2. What was on the inside of the bird house?
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3. Where did Simon go?
____________________________________________________________
4. When did Mallory join them?
____________________________________________________________
5. Why did Mallory say she would do the writing?
____________________________________________________________
6. How many more night attacks were there?
____________________________________________________________
T F The mice were alive.
T F Mallory started to believe in the boggart.
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Write the answers for these in your notebook.
Main Idea: What was the main idea of these chapters?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Key Event: What was the most important event?
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Prediction: Predict what you think will happen in the story next.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Comparison: Compare two things in these chapters. Tell
what makes them alike and what makes them different.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
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Fact or Opinion: Write one sentence that is a Fact about
the chapters and one sentence that is an Opinion based on the chapters.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

Sequence of Events: On 3 strips of paper, write three
main events that happened in these chapters. Save these strips for the
Sequence of Events Activity.
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Handwriting: In your notebook, write this quote from the
story. Use your best penmanship.
In which Thimbletack the brownie is introduced.
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___________________________________________________________
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
___________________________________________________________

Vocabulary: Look up 10 words from the vocabulary list and
write their definition in your notebook. On the back of the page write any
synonyms or antonyms for the words.
1.
____________________________________________________________
2.
____________________________________________________________
3.
____________________________________________________________
4.
____________________________________________________________
5.
___________________________________________________________
6.
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7.
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8.
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9.
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10.
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