✦RBLevel 2 · Confident ReadersUS Grades 3–4Lexile 930LAR (ATOS) 5.3 · First published 1932
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of Little House in the Big Woods to use this workbook. Recommended edition: HarperCollins paperback (Garth Williams illus.), ISBN 9780064400015. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🏠 Pioneer Life, Season by Season
Smokehouses, churns, the long rifle, maple sugar, the general store and the threshing machine — the real, everyday things one family makes and uses through a year in the woods.
SUPPORTING
🌳 The Big Woods
Wolves, bears, icicles, rising sap, bees in a hollow tree and a lake that is really a river — the science of the forest around the little house.
SUPPORTING
📖 How a Story Is Built
Setting, stories inside the story, a title with two meanings, a child’s point of view, and a year that comes round to where it began.
