Setting Pop-ups, Paper-Chain Characters, Plot Mini-Books, and more to help students "learn by doing." Includes reproducible student direction sheets and rubrics.

This book has engaging lessons, graphic organizers, and hand-on activities that help students respond to what they read and deepen comprehension.

A new friend could be sitting right next to you. Save Me a Seat joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own. Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding it pretty hard to figure out where he fits in.Joe and Ravi don't think they have anything in common -- but soon enough they have a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and a common mission: to take control of their lives over the course of a single crazy week.

1. Character -- 2. Setting -- 3. Plot -- 4. Expanding the reading and wrting experience.

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.

In this text for teachers, the authors explain how to teach what really matters about character, setting, point of view, and theme.

In this learning-packed resource, two creative teachers share the standards-based survival unit they created around five favorite novels: Number the Stars, The Cay, My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, and Banner in the Sky. Inside you'll find a survival simulation for piquing interest and activating prior knowledge, reading strategy mini-lessons, and literature-group management tips. Also includes discussion and writing prompts, reading-response projects, and creative activities for teaching literary elements and vocabulary. You'll use this resource again and again. Book jacket.