FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX

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Overview
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National Standards
General Activities
Picture Walk
U.S. Geography
Compare Clothing
Find Simon's Belongings
Using Speech Tags
Web Quest
Postcards from America
Plan a Trip
How Far?
Travel Today

Find Simon's Lost Belongings:

While the teacher is holding the book open to a single spread for the class, far enough away so everyone can see the picture but not necessarily all the details, the students come up with a dozen or more questions that the teacher has to answer.
  1. The students must ask yes-or-no questions. For example, "Is the pencil box under the red-and-white awning?" The game can keep going until the teacher is directed to the exact location of the missing items.
  2. Focus on using language that includes prepositions and specific descriptions of the areas in which to look for the missing items.
Standards: NL-ENG.K-12.4 Communication Skills


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Illustrations and excerpts from Adèle & Simon in America by Barbara McClintock.
Copyright © 2008 by Barbara McClintock. Published in August 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved.