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.