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Genre/Form: | Collections |
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Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
ISBN: | 007874315X 9780078743153 0078743281 9780078743283 |
OCLC Number: | 137292487 |
Target Audience: | Grade 8. RL: 6. |
Description: | xvii, 285 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm + 1 Annotated teacher edition |
Contents: | Unit 1 -- Short story: The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe; Stop the sun / Gary Paulsen; Chanclas / Sandra Cisneros; Everybody knows Tobie / Daniel Garza -- Unit 2 -- Short story: Raymond's run / Toni Cade Bambara; Mother and daughter / Gary Soto; The treasure of Lemon Brown / Walter Dean Myers; The medicine bag / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve -- Unit 3 -- Drama: from: The diary of Anne Frank / Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett -- Unit 4 -- Folklore and Myth: The wise old woman / Yoshiko Uchida; Racing the Great Bear / Joseph Bruchac; Icarus and Daedalus / Josephine Preston Peabody; People could fly / Virginia Hamilton -- Unit 5 -- Nonfiction: Thank you in Arabic / Naomi Shihab Nye; The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln; Nationally televised speech by President John F. Kennedy / John F. Kennedy -- Glossary. |
Abstract:
[This book] features: five units organized by genre that offer fiction and nonfiction selections; before reading activities that activate prior knowledge, provide background information, and preteach selection vocabulary ... ; [and] end-of-selection activities that allow students to demonstrate reading comprehension and understanding of new skills and concepts; selection assessments in standardized test format; [and] English language learner support that builds vocabulary and language skills. -- Back cover.
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