Kids Wings presents a unique 64-page Hawaiian Trio!
Calvin Coconut, Trouble Magnet (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 hysterical vehicle for improving vocabulary, comprehension, cooperative group skills, and cross-curriculum skills while exploring real life problems entwined with fun in your classroom!
The Calvin Coconut, Trouble Magnet 29-page 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 a unique 22-page Hawaiian menehune legend with felt-board patterns 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 13-page Kids Wings activity guide for Surfer of the Century by Ellie Crowe, the biography of Hawaii's beloved Olympic hero. Activities include:
- Pre-Reading Discussion Cards
- Readers’ Theater Introduction
- Getting Ready to Read Nonfiction--Pretest
- Map Activity: Where in the World is Hawaii?
- Character Study
- Vocabulary List
- Vocabulary Bingo
- Taking Waves, Making Waves
- Multiple Choice Comprehension
- Olympic Champion Research
- Olympic Champion Writing
- Comparing Books
- Answer Pages