4 Candlewick Press Books You Need in Class This Year

4 Candlewick Press Books You Need in Class This Year FutureFit RL SR AD GR ? 4 great books and teaching guides from Candlewick Press Four specially-curated new titles from TeacherVision partner Candlewick Press will challenge, amaze, and delight your students this year! Each new book features a teaching guide that includes cross-curricular activities that reinforce core concepts while building 21st-century skills, along with Common Core-aligned discussion questions and independent and group activities and projects. Perfect for use in ELA, social studies, and science classes this year. Updated on: August 28, 2018 Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship by Jessica Henksy (our town and turned it to rubble. Imagine if you lost everything and everyone, and you had to make a dangerous journey all alone. In lyrical, deeply affecting language, Nicola Davies’s text combines with Rebecca Cobb’s expressive illustrations to evoke the experience of a child who sees war take away all that she knows. Common Core-aligned activities and discussion questions are the highlights of the teaching guide for this riveting new book. The Infamous Ratsos: Project Fluffy by Kara LaReau (ear-old Lowen Grover, a budding comic-book artist, is still reeling from the shooting death of his friend Abe when he stumbles across an article about a former mill town giving away homes for just one dollar. It seems like the perfect escape from Flintlock and all of the awful memories associated with the city. But is the Dollar Program too good to be true? The homes are in horrible shape, and the locals are less than welcoming. From the author of Small as an Elephant and Paper Things comes a heart-tugging novel about guilt and grief, family and friendship, and, above all, community. The activity-based discussion questions in this book discussion guide can be used as part of an in-class discussion, assigned as journaling or take-home activities, or serve as the basis for small-group read-and-respond exercises.