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.