Story Squares


Book Description

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. Using 40 timeless classics of childrens literature, students are challenged to respond to reading assignments using the skills of Language Arts, Writing, Higher-Order Thinking, and Creative Arts. Students are given the power to choose the activities they wish to complete. With 800 activities available, readers are bound to find options that interest and inform them. Story summaries, teacher hints, a grading rubric, and a glossary of terms are included. Brimming with content for both students and teachers, Story Squares is a novel way to get your students reading!




Perfect Square


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A perfect square is transformed in this adventure story that will transport you far beyond the four equal sides of this square book.




Squares


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This board book full of squares and clever cut-outs is a wonderful way to introduce babies and toddlers to shapes. Is it a door? A book? A train or a present? Read aloud and create a clever guessing game about shapes that will delight and stimulate the youngest readers. Squares and rectangles are everywhere, and the shapes and colors found in everyday objects come to life when the pages of the book are turned. Learning shapes is a lot of fun when there are surprises involved—this die-cut board book from master artist and designer Yusuke Yonezu is full of them.




Squares & Other Shapes with Josef Albers


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An introduction to shapes through the acclaimed art of Josef Albers The influential art of Josef Albers is used to teach shapes in this stylish read-aloud board book, which takes children through Albers' range of geometrics, one artwork per page, beginning with squares and returning to them as a familiar refrain throughout. The variance of colour, scale, and quantity adds to the richness of the visual arc, and the accompanying text provides a humorous and engaging commentary. Readers will not only learn their shapes, but also grow familiar with fine art in this second title in the 'First Concepts with Fine Artists' series. Includes a read-aloud 'about the artist' at the end.




Story Squares for Grades 4-5


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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 four timeless children?s classics: ?Matilda,? ?Missing May,? ?The Trumpet Swan,? and ?School Story.? 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!




Story Squares for Grades 3-4


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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 six timeless children?s classics: ?Class President,? ?Charlotte?s Web,? ?How to Eat Fried Worms,? ?The Hundred Dress,? ?Bunnicula,? and ?The Whipping Boy.? 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!




Story Squares for Grades 4-6


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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 three timeless children?s classics: ?Bud. Not Buddy,? ?The Borrowers,? and ?Esperanza Rising.? 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!




Pick a Circle, Gather Squares


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Fall is here, with all its wonderful visual delights—not just colors, but shapes! This clever concept book follows a family on a trip to a pumpkin patch and invites children to pick out shapes from the seasonal scenery—apple bushel circles, square hay bales, diamond kites in the autumn sky! Felicia Sanzari Chernesky’s sweet verses are perfectly complemented by Susan Swan’s gorgeous collage-inspired art.




Story Squares #2 for Grades 5-6


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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!




Story Squares for Grade 3


Book Description

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 six timeless children?s classics: ?Freckle Juice,? ?Judy Moody was in a Mood. Not a Good Mood. A Bad Mood,? ?The Magic Finger,? ?Chocolate Fever,? ?The Van Gogh Caf‚,? and ?Skylark.? 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!