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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Description
Clifford the big red dog, and his owner, Emily Elizabeth, visit a firehouse and learn about fire safety. When the fire fighters are unexpectedly called to put out a fire, Clifford lends a helping paw.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Includes interviews, commentaries and excerpts from the novel, providing first-hand accounts of why The Grapes of Wrath remains so compelling seven decades after its initial publication. Teacher's guide contains ten lessons, each with a focus topic, discussion activities, writing exercises, and homework assignments. Also includes capstone projects, suggested essay topics, handouts with more background information, and bibliographical references. Lessons...
Author
Series
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Interviews, commentaries, and excerpts from Amy Tan's first novel, The Joy Luck Club. Accompanying teacher's guide includes ten lesson plans, each with focus topic, discussion activities, writing exercises, and homework assignments Also includes capstone projects, suggested essay topics, handouts with more background information about the novel, and bibliographical references. Lessons dovetail with state language arts standards required for fiction....
Author
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) is arguably the most widely admired American fantasy novel of the past fifty years. The book's elegant diction, geographical sweep, and mounting suspense are quite irresistible. Earthsea, composed of an archipelago of many islands, is a land of the imagination, like Oz, Faerie,...