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Pine School Pals: Halloween Twins
Meet the Pine School second-grade class. Today Niki and Sara have a big problem.
By Meg Richardson and Laine Falk
From the October/November 2023 Issue
Learning Objective: Children will practice finding the problem and solution in a fiction story.
About the Story
Social and Life Skills
Resolving conflicts constructively
Step-by-Step Lesson Plan
Implementation
- Small group; whole group; independent reading
Pairings and Text Connections
- From the Storyworks 2 archive:
This comic is part of a series. Students can look at past print issues or go online to read about the Pine School Pals' other adventures!
This comic is part of a series. Students can look at past print issues or go online to read about the Pine School Pals' other adventures!
Before-Reading Resources
- Text Preview Bookmarks:
(10 minutes) Kids can cut out the fiction bookmark and
use it to preview the text.
(10 minutes) Kids can cut out the fiction bookmark and
use it to preview the text.
Suggested Reading Focus
Problem/solution, text navigation (30 minutes)
- Read the first page with your students. You can assign students different roles and read this mini graphic novel aloud like a short play! The main characters are introduced on the first page.
After-Reading Skills Practice (15 minutes for each activity)
- Problem and Solution: This activity helps students reflect on the structure of the comic they have just read.
- Comics Feature Hunt: This activity helps students identify features of comics.
- A Halloween Story: Parts of speech practice. Students can fill in the blanks to make a silly story about trick-or-treating.
Text-to-Speech