Enhance your reading comprehension lessons with Story Squares?! This versatile resource will encourage a love of reading in your students while developing a wide range of skills. Students are challenged to respond to reading assignments using the skills of Language Arts, Writing, Higher-Order Thinking, and Creative Arts. It covers five timeless children?s classics: ?Crash,? ?The Cay,? ?Walk Two Moons,? ?The Library Card,? and ?Chasing Vermeer.? Each book has a story summary and 20 activity options. The packet also includes teacher hints, a grading rubric, and a glossary of terms. Brimming with content for both students and teachers, Story Squares is a novel way to get your students reading!

These are extracts of activities, events, and challenges of living from the 1940s to the present day in 2017a span of seventy-two years experienced by C. S. Po. He recollects memories of his young daysfrom the communist insurgence from 1948 to 1960 to the racial riots of 1969 in the Malaysian peninsula. He shares his experiences on some paranormal phenomena arising from cultural beliefs and practices that have intrigued and indeed mystified him and have remained unexplained over the years. He relates his emigration to Melbourne to face new challenges and savor Australias mateship, happy hours, and odd work practices in the 1980s and 1990s, which have been progressively eroded over the years. Further, he mentioned his simple, effective response to counteract racial taunts at work and in the streets of Melbourne. Through highlighting some heart, bladder, kidney, and other health issues, he alludes to be cautious in the use of certain medications, contrasting dye, and chemotherapy that can adversely affect kidney functions from his personal experience and observations. He has adopted a lifelong philosophy of experience with no regrets, and this book includes many near-death situations that he faced in his life and is happy, glad, and contented that he has had his fair share of nine lives.

Fall underground to a magical land where a prophecy is soon to come true. Surpass all expectations with thought-provoking activities. Students give meaning to sentences from the novel. Write the true version of false statements from the book. Determine what a metaphor is and find an example from the story. Recall in detail the complete prophecy as told to Gregor. Choose the definition that matches the underlined vocabulary word from the text. Students explore the concept of betrayal and reflect on a time in which they experienced this. Students create their own Underland and write a short story about how to get there. Compare the Overland and Underland in a graphic organizer. Aligned to your State Standards, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: Gregor the Overlander is a story of a fantastical world deep beneath the surface of the earth. Gregor is home alone in New York City watching his baby sister and grandmother. After his sister falls through a grate in the basement, Gregor follows her deep underground into a new world. The Underland is filled with humans whose skin is almost see-through, giant bats, rats, mice, and fireflies. A conflict between the human city of Regalia and the rats is creating panic among the inhabitants. It's not until a prophecy is revealed that Gregor finds himself involved in plans to save the Underland. Gregor the Overlander is an epic story of fantasy and destiny.

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