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Little House in the Big Woods — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

Little House in the Big Woods

a novel by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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✦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.
8-Part Novel Study
Choose a Part
VocabularyReading IntelligenceLiterary ElementsThink DeeperBig QuestionAcademic Reading Challenge
Progress
PT1
Part 1 · Chapter 1
Little House in the Big Woods
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PT2
Part 2 · Chapters 2–3
Winter Days and Winter Nights • The Long Rifle
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PT3
Part 3 · Chapter 4
Christmas
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PT4
Part 4 · Chapters 5–6
Sundays • Two Big Bears
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PT5
Part 5 · Chapters 7–8
The Sugar Snow • Dance at Grandpa’s
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PT6
Part 6 · Chapter 9
Going to Town
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PT7
Part 7 · Chapters 10–11
Summertime • Harvest
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PT8
Part 8 · Chapters 12–13
The Wonderful Machine • The Deer in the Wood
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