This 37-page Kids' Wings unit for Annie Barrow's The Magic Half, will enrich and extend your reading of this exciting time-travel adventure. It is perfect for paired, group, or whole class study.

The unit includes:

• Pre-Reading Discussion Cards,
• Anticipation Guide,
• Preparing Your Intellectual Tools: Dialectical Journal,
• 2 -Page Readers Theater Introduction,
• Vocabulary List,
• Research: The Great Depression,
• Exploring Living History: The Interview,
• Making Connections: Before Reading Quick Writes and Predict/Read/Confirm Chapter Questions,
• Character Studies,
• The Decagon Room,
• Designing My Own Room,
• Crossword Puzzle: Magic Happens,
• Activities for Visualizing the Chapters through Drawing,
• Multiple Choice and Short Answer Comprehension Activities,
• Visualizing the Story,
• Cause and Effect,
• There's More to the Story,
• A Spinner Discussion,
• Illustrate a Description,
• Illustrate and Describe Your Part of Town,
• What If and Analogies,
• Story Mapping a New Ending,
• First Draft to Final Draft,
• Horst's Hidden Things,
• Two-page Story Review,
• Plus, an interactive Jeopardy-type game!
• With Answer Keys