Reading & Literature

Dolphins and Sharks A NONFICTION COMPANION TO MAGIC TREE HOUSE #9: DOLPHINS AT DAYBREAK  (#6633) By MARY POPE OSBORNE and NATALIE POPE BOYCE Illustrated by SAL MURDOCCA.

Track the facts with Jack and Annie!

When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #9: Dolphins at Daybreak, they had lots of questions. Did dolphins ever live on land? How do dolphins communicate? How do sharks hunt for food? Which sharks are the most dangerous? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts.

Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. And teachers can use Fact Trackers alongside their Magic Tree House fiction companions to meet common core text pairing needs.

Paperback | Published by Random House Books for Young Readers Jun 24, 2003 | 128 Pages | 5-3/16 x 7-5/8 | 7-10 years

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. This Penguin Classics edition, with its beautiful new cover design, includes John Rutherford's masterly translation, which does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes's prose, as well as a brilliant critical introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarriá. Paperback. 1072 pages. Learn More

Mr. Utterson hears about a violent man named Hyde. He is disturbed that a friend, Dr. Jekyll, has made a will leaving his property to the same Mr. Hyde. Utterson decides to investigate Hyde. Then Jekyll isolates himself in his laboratory. Another friend of Utterson's, Dr. Hastie Lanyon, suddenly dies with which Jekyll seems to be connected. One night, Jekyll's butler asks Utterson for help to deal with a stranger who has killed Jekyll. They discover that the stranger is Hyde, who is dead and Jekyll is missing. Afterwards, Utterson reads a letter from Lanyon explaining what happened. It tells about an impure potion that caused Jekyll to change. Learn More

High in the mountains of Transylvania lives the sinister Count Dracula. When Jonathan Harker is invited to the Count’s castle, he discovers a horrific plot to create an army of the undead. Can vampire hunter Professor Van Helsing help Jonathan and his friends thwart Dracula’s evil plan before it’s too late? The terrifying suspense never stops in this blood-curdling graphic novel/classic.

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Dracula By BRAM STOKER Introduction by Holly Black.

Jonathan Harker is travelling to Castle Dracula to see the Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. He is begged by locals not to go there, because on the eve of St George’s Day, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will come full sway. But business must be done, so Jonathan makes his way to the Castle – and then his nightmare begins. His beloved wife Meena and other lost souls have fallen under the Count’s horrifying spell. Dracula must be destroyed . . . With an exciting introduction by Holly Black, bestselling author of The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Paperback |  Published by Puffin Books Jun 11, 2009 | 640 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up)

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Introduce students to this Newbery Honor book and encourage them to analyze the text by completing the activities and lessons provided in Dragonwings: An Instructional Guide for Literature. This resource features rigorous, cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to comprehend and analyze complex literature. This guide is packed with tools to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature with this essential resource! Grades 4-8 From Teacher Created Materials Learn More

Part of the Childhood of Famous Americans fictionalized biography series. One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies - easily read by children 8 and up - today's youngster is swept right into history. Paperback. ages 8-12. 192 pages. Learn More

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves him more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut. Ender's skills make him a leader in school, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. His psychological battles include loneliness, and fear that he is becoming like his cruel brother. Is Ender the general Earth needs? Learn More

Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard work, financial struggles brought on by the Great Depression, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When Mama gets sick and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances-because Mama's life, and her own, depend on it. Learn More

Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach!

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help.

The 36 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review.

The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple teach, practice, and assess approach.

Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students overall comprehension and test-taking skills.

Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts Main Idea and Details Text Features and Visual Information Description Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Sequence Problem and Solution Predict Vocabulary Summarize Fact and Opinion Make Inferences Authors Purpose Text Structure Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts Character Setting Plot Theme Point of View Predict Vocabulary Visual Information Summarize Make Inferences Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Foreshadowing Hyperbole Nonfiction genre studies include: expository nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction.

Fiction genre studies include: historical fiction, realistic fiction, science fiction, and comedy.

Use Reading Comprehension Fundamentals as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students needs.

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Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach!

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help.

The 35 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review.

The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple teach, practice, and assess approach.

  Reading Comprehension Fundamentals complements the skill practice presented in Daily Reading Comprehension.

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Students using the Evan-Moor Reading Comprehension Fundamentals, Grade 3  will notice a marked increase in overall reading comprehension and test-taking skills.

Within each of the 35 units of this grade  3 reading resource, students will use a "teach, practice and assess" approach, allowing them to gain confidence.

The nonfiction genre texts for third graders include expository, persuasive, narrative and descriptive nonfiction.

And grade three students will encounter historical and realistic fiction, fairy tales and fables.

Recommended ages 8 and up.

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You'll be amazed at the strides your fourth graders will make throughout the school year as they compete the lessons in the Evan-Moor Reading Comprehension Fundamentals, Grade 4.

Each workbook contains 35 skill-based units with activities that grade 4 students can complete, including a review at the end of each unit.

The reading resource includes both fiction and nonfiction texts, helping grade four kids learn how to glean different types of information from each style of writing.

Using these materials, teachers can target the reading skills and strategies each individual student.

Recommended for ages 8 and up.

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Forced into hiding at the age of thirteen, her diary reveals what life was like for her and her Jewish family during the Second World War, and continues to inspire people all over the world.

ages 7-11

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A dedicated and brave pilot, known for staying calm under pressure, he became the first person to set foot on the moon.

Series: Extraordinary Lives
From real-life narratives to timelines and facts, each fully illustrated book focuses on the life of an inspirational historical or modern figure. Explore the childhood, the achievements, and the qualities of each figure – the very things that helped them have such an incredible impact on the world.

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Library of Congress Children’s Books

New York Times Outstanding Book

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 Winner of the Caldecott Medal

A pig flying through marshmallow clouds? A camel pirouetting through the desert? Where else could a reader find such marvelous things but in a fable? From the author-illustrator behind beloved Frog and Toad, Arnold Lobel, comes a collection of humorous, silly fables that will delight readers young and old.

“The most remarkable of the author-illustrator’s 60-plus bestselling award winners.” —Publishers Weekly

“There is enough cheerful nonsense in Mr. Lobel’s fables to endear any child listener.” —The New York Times

“Lobel has come up with a magical addition to an ancient genre of storytelling.” —Newsweek

Pages: 48

 Ages: 4 to 8

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``A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.`` In addition to probing comprehension questions about this flammable book, this guide offers projects including book binding, poetry analysis, writing projects(like ``The Book vs. the Movie``), and a paper model of the creepy Mechanical Hound. Soft 47p Learn More

Motivate students to dive into this dystopian novel and make connections to the past, the present, and the future. Fahrenheit 451: An Instructional Guide for Literature is the perfect resource to aid students in analyzing and comprehending the classic novel written by Ray Bradbury. The cross-curricular lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more. The appealing, challenging activities were written to support the story, and incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. Add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature with this language arts resource. Grades 9-12 From Teacher Created Materials See also #12783 Learn More

Armand, relished his solitary life. He begs and does odd jobs for money. Children, he said, were like starlings, and one was better off without them. But the mother and her three children who lived under the bridge recognized a true friend when they met one, even if the friend seemed a trifle unwilling at the start. And it did not take Armand very long to realize that he had gotten himself a ready-made family; one that he loved with all his heart, and one for whom he would have to find a better home than the bridge. Learn More

During World War II a community called Manzanar was created in the high mountain desert country of California. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese Americans. Among them was the Wakatsuki family, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, who was seven years old when she arrived at Manzanar in 1942, recalls life in the camp through the eyes of the child she was. Learn More

Farmer Boy Literature Guide by Memoria Press. Literature study guides train students to become active readers. These guides focus on vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and composition skills. Words to pronounce and spell prepare students for each chapter, and words to define build vocabulary. Comprehension questions teach students to think about what they have read and to learn to identify the important content of each story. Comprehension questions also teach students the advanced skill of composing a clear, concise answer to a question, a difficult skill at any age. Writing is thinking, and good questioning stimulates the child to think and to write. 3rd grade. Teacher's Guide available (item# 4593)

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Farmer Boy Literature Guide Teacher's Edition by Memoria Press. This teacher's guide accompanies Memoria Press' Farmer Boy Literature Guide Student Book, sold separately (Item #4346). The student book is reproduced with the correct answers inserted; discussion question answers are listed separately. Quizzes cover multiple chapters and test vocabulary, comprehension multiple choice, and short answer questions. A final exam is also included. The answers for the vocabulary tests & exam are overlaid on reproduced forms. 125 pages, softcover. Grade 3. Learn More

Superb treasury of time-honored poetic gems includes Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter," Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," Eugene Field's "Wynken, Blynken and Nod," Emily Dickinson's "I’m Nobody! Who are you?," Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Swing," many more. Printed in large, easy-to-read type.

Dover Original

Grade level 3 - 8 (ages 8 - 14)

Page Count 96

Dimensions 5 3/16 x 8 1/4

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During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out. Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. At her feverish mother's insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease. 272 Pages. Grades 5-9. Includes Reading Group Guide. Learn More