Valuable practice in language arts and reading comprehension PLUS an exciting adventure about Texas time travelers rolled into one! This book is brimming with challenging activities woven right into the plot of the story! Students actually have fun as they learn to:
- Identify and apply core skills in a variety of contexts.
- Apply and transfer core skills to solve problems in various real-life contexts.
- Exercise higher-order thinking and develop problem-solving strategies.
- Distinguish skills they've mastered from those they need to review and practice.
Covers POWER SKILLS for Grades 4-6, but easily adaptable for middle-schoolers, and great for anyone looking for a new approach to review and practice. Ideal for home or classroom.
STORY SYNOPSIS: Peter and Tina become accidental time travelers when they open a mysterious book and fall into the past. As they move through six key events in Texas history, their friends Mike and Molly must find a way to rescue them. Can Mike and Molly save our time travelers without changing the course of history?
LANGUAGE ARTS POWER SKILLS: Making inferences, Summarizing, Details, Main ideas, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Reference sources, Sequence, Fact and Opinion
OTHER BOOKS IN THE ADVENTURES PLUS Series: Alien Alert, All That Jazz, Raise the Gigantic, Runaway Spaceship, That's Some Dog, The Show Must Go On!, Case of the Missing Millie, Treasure Hunt, Score Booster Handbook for Reading and Language Arts, and Score Booster Practice Guides, Books One, Two and Three
