Designed to be used with bestselling trade books, Story Squares feature a single page with four squares provided per book. Each quadrant emphasizes a different learning style, emphasizing basic language arts skills, writing skills, higher-order thinking skills, and student creativity/the arts. Five questions are included per quadrant, and may be used for independent student work, or in one-on-one situations. Short descriptions of each book are provided, along with rubric guidelines and a glossary. To be used with books from Grades 3-6. 68 reproducible pages, softcover. Story Squares are included for the following books: Freckle Juice; Judy Moody was in a Mood, Not a Good Mood, a Bad Mood; The Magic Finger; Chocolate Fever; The Van Gogh Cafe; Skylark; Class President; Charlotte's Web; How to Eat Fried Worms; The Hundred Dresses; Bunnicula; The Whipping Boy; Matilda; Missing May; The Trumpet of the Swan; School Story; Bud, Not Buddy; The Borrowers; Esperanza Rising; Strider; Frindle; Tuck Everlasting; The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963; Loser; On My Honor; Philip Hall Likes Me I Reckon Maybe; The Egypt Game; Everything on a Waffle; Crash; The Cay; Walk Two Moons; The Library Card; Chasing Vermeer; Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy; Out of the Dust; Fever 1793; 101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher; Julie of the Wolves; Al Capone Does my Shirts; The Slave Dancer. |
