More Twists [Paperback]

Burton Goodman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0890615020 | ISBN-13: 978-0890615027 | Publication Date: April 1, 1989 | Edition: 1

Motivate students with high-interest fiction from master authors

• Motivate struggling readers with high-interest stories at ten reading levels
• Improve vocabulary and comprehension skills
• Encourage writing in response to reading

One of our classic best-sellers, Goodman's Five-Star Stories, supplements any literature curriculum or stands on its own by providing interesting fiction at just the right reading levels. Adapted well-known short stories by traditional authors and newer multicultural authors entice even struggling readers with tales of adventure, derring-do, and surprise. Vocabulary in context, cloze passages, and critical thinking exercises help readers improve their understanding of the narrative text.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 11 and up
  
• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary; 1 edition (April 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890615020
• ISBN-13: 978-0890615027
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #261,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars O Henry endings, March 4, 2009

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This review is from: More Twists (Paperback)

I purchased this book for Henri Duvernois' short story "Clothes Make the Man". This was a short story I read more than 30 years ago. I think about this story almost everyday, due to the steady decline of sartorial refinement in our society. When I see how the "casual-dress workplace" has declined from khaki pants and dress shirts to faded jeans, tee-shirts and tennis shoes, when I see women wearing Crocs to work, when I see the youth of America wearing baggy clothes, tee-shirts, and ballcaps on backwards, when I see our new president without his suit coat in the Oval Office, when I see a proliferation of sweat pants in our shopping malls and restaurants, I think of this story.

O. Henry's "The Last Leaf" is another short story I read many years ago that is worth the price of purchase. This book is easy to read, and has simple exercises at the end of each story. A great book to have in your library especially for your children or grandchildren.