This year, we will be reading a selection of texts using the Bookworms Reading Curriculum. Click HERE to find out more about our reading series!
In Unit 1: Life's Lessons, students will explore narrative structure, text connected themes, character relationships, and character growth and change over time. The lessons provide students with ample opportunities to discuss character traits and fiction narrative text structures.
Owen Foote, Money Man is a text about a young boy who wants to earn money. He learns that working hard can make you feel proud. This text is a story with a strong narrative text structure. Students will collaborate in creating a story map to summarize the text.
Fudge-a-Mania is a text about Peter, the main character, who is convinced his vacation with the Tubman family will be the worst experience ever. As the story continues, Peter has a change in attitude about vacation.
This text is a story with a strong narrative text structure. Students will collaborate in creating a story map to summarize the text.
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast.
When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!