Kids Wings Unit for Calvin Coconut, Night of the Seven Splashes, Surfer of the Century

A Hawaiian Trio! Calvin Coconut! (realistic fiction) The Night of the Seven Splashes (legend)! Surfer of the Century (biography)! The 29-page Kids' Wings unit for Calvin Coconut is the perfect vehicle for improving vocabulary, comprehension, cooperative group skills, and cross-curriculum skills while exploring real life problems entwined with fun in your classroom! The unit includes Pre-Reading Discussion Cards 2-Page Readers’ Theater Introduction, Preparing Your Intellectual Tools, Dialectical Journals, Map Activity: Where in the World is Hawaii? Similes: Words That Paint Pictures, Reading The Map; Map Making--My Home, Chapter Guides: Vocabulary, Predict/Read/Confirm Chapter Questions, Chapter Check Ups: Multiple Choice, Comprehension Activities, The Write Stuff: What's Troubling Tito? Sequence This! The Write Stuff: Bad Decisions, Hawaiian Recipes, Crossword Puzzle: Action Verbs, The Write Stuff: What's Up with Stella? Converting Dialect to Standard English, 3-Page Lesson Plan for Teaching Sentence Combining: Compound and Complex Sentences, Who's Who? Puzzle, Wrapping Up the Story--Discussion Cards, Famous Last Words Puzzle, Acting Out The Centipede Catastrophe, Answer Pages. Night of the Seven Splashes is the Hawaiian menehune legend that explains how the Hawaiian Islands were formed. It is prepared in PowerPoint and will lend itself to the telling on a felt board. Also included is a Kids Wing activity guide for Surfer of the Century by Ellie Crowe, the biography of Hawaii's beloved Olympic hero. We look forward to hearing your reactions to the unit and promise to use your comments to make our units better...if that is possible! Please click on the link in the email you receive to begin your download. (You may need to copy and paste the link into your browser's address window.) We recommend that you SAVE it to your hard drive.