Cricket in Times Square (The) Discovery Guide

$34.95

This extensive Discovery Guide workbook covers comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, grammar & enrichment ideas related to The Cricket in Times Square. As students read, they complete worksheets, writing topics, hands-on activities and field trips.

The Discovery Guide is broken down into weekly units in which students read a section of the novel and answers comprehension questions pertaining to those chapters. Each unit contains a variety of critical thinking activities including projects, drawing, writing assignments, and a puzzles which correlate to chapters in the novel. Writing assignments apply concepts in the story to the student's life and many passages are chosen to emphasize Biblical lessons that relate to the story.

Total Language Plus Discovery Guides are designed to take about 8 to 10 weeks to complete. Depending on the number of activities students perform and the degree of emphasis placed on composition skills, this study guide may serve as your complete Language Arts curriculum.

Barbara's Notes: The study is a good choice to use after completing Charlotte's Web or Pippi Longstocking. It is a favorite among both boys and girls.

This extensive Discovery Guide workbook covers comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, grammar & enrichment ideas related to The Cricket in Times Square. As students read, they complete worksheets, writing topics, hands-on activities and field trips.

The Discovery Guide is broken down into weekly units in which students read a section of the novel and answers comprehension questions pertaining to those chapters. Each unit contains a variety of critical thinking activities including projects, drawing, writing assignments, and a puzzles which correlate to chapters in the novel. Writing assignments apply concepts in the story to the student's life and many passages are chosen to emphasize Biblical lessons that relate to the story.

Total Language Plus Discovery Guides are designed to take about 8 to 10 weeks to complete. Depending on the number of activities students perform and the degree of emphasis placed on composition skills, this study guide may serve as your complete Language Arts curriculum.

Barbara's Notes: The study is a good choice to use after completing Charlotte's Web or Pippi Longstocking. It is a favorite among both boys and girls.

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Seldon

A displaced cricket befriends a mouse, a cat and a boy whose family runs a newsstand in a subway station. But how will he ever return to his country home?

Book Summary — 151 pages

Book Category — Fantasy

Theme — Friendship

Setting — New York subway

Novel Study Highlights — 6 units

Spelling-Vocabulary — Med. to Difficult

Critical Thinking — Light

Biblical Focus — Trust in God

Related Studies — Music, Chinese culture, family-run business, relocating