Fiction: by award-winner Janet Taylor Lisle
Nonfiction: “The Man-Eating Tigers of Tanzania.”
Play: Nancy Drew-based on the new movie!
Contest: Create a Character for Pam Munoz Ryan
Writing: Elements of a paragraph, supporting details, run-on sentences
Poetry: Shel Silverstein, Paul Prelutsyy
Grammar: Homophones, parts of speech
Skills and Strategies: Reading for detail, compare and contrast, parts of speech, understanding plot, literary devices

Fiction: A spooky story by Betty Downing Hahn
Nonfiction: “Animal E.R.”
Play: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Contests: Haiku writing, paragraph writing
Writing: Paragraphs, persuasive writing
Poetry: E.B. White and writing about nature
Grammar: Contractions, parts of speech
Skills and Strategies: Identifying genres, sequencing, fact/opinion, reading comprehension, compare and contrast, test taking, reading for detail

Fiction: “The Toxic Duck,” by award-winning author Patrick Jennings
Nonfiction: “The Amazing Vision of Louis Braille”
Play: The Golden Compass, by Phillip Pullman
Writing: Tricks of famous writers, paragraphs
Grammar: Subject/Verb agreement, parts of speech
Skills and Strategies: Understanding story morals, predicting, context
clues, reading comprehension, compare and contrast, test taking, reading for detail

Fiction: Storyworks favorite Roland Smith, author of Cryptid Hunters
Nonfiction: “The Blizzard of 1888”
Play: The Spiderwick Chronicles
Writing: Supporting details, paragraphs
Grammar: Quotation marks, parts of speech
Skills and Strategies: Foreshadowing, cause/effect, context clues, reading comprehension, compare and contrast, test taking, reading for detail

Fiction: Jenny Nimmo, author of the Charlie Bones books
Nonfiction: Apollo 13
Play: Three Fables
Writing: Conclusions, paragraphs
Grammar: Well vs. good, less vs. fewer; parts of speech
Skills and Strategies: Metaphors and similes, reading for main idea,
sequencing, reading comprehension, compare and contrast, test taking, reading for detail

Fiction: Pam Munoz Ryan writes an original story starring this year's Character Contest winner.
Nonfiction: “The Irish Potato Famine”
Play: King Arthur and the Sword and the Stone
Writing: Action words, paragraphs
Grammar: Capitalization, parts of speech
Skills and Strategies: Understanding setting, fact vs. opinion, understanding
theme, reading comprehension, comparing and contrasting, test taking, reading for detail

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