Contains activities based on the United States Dept. of Education's Reading First program.

The new reader’s guide edition of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s literary debut features the fifteen stories from the original collection, an interview with the author, an original afterword, and her suggested reading list. When Shauna Singh Baldwin’s debut collection was first published in 1996, it took readers by storm. Reviewers discovered a new voice; listeners tuned in to the stories on CBC Radio. Since then, Baldwin has written two award-winning novels and, in 2007, a second story collection, We Are Not in Pakistan. Dramatizing the lives of Indian women from 1919 to the present, from India to North America, Shauna Singh Baldwin travels from the intimate sphere of family to the wasteland of office and university.

A little tractor helps different farm animals throughout the day while the reader learns numbers by counting the animals on each double page.

Students follow a set of phonics-based instructions to create their own illustrations. Reinforces phonics skills, reading comprehension, and following directions.

Teaches a revolutionary approach to making judgements about the difficulty of a reading selection.