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Halloween isn't fun for everyone — but playing together is! Read about Esme and her space pirate friend with a short reading passage, accompanied by ten short answer questions.
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Instructional Ideas
- Include in a reading assessment or placement test
- Have learners decide which character they relate to more, and why
- Expand one of the short answers into a longer writing assignment
Classroom Considerations
- Uses terms that aren't friendly (e.g. dopey, weird)
- Some phrases may be too idiomatic or nuanced for beginning readers or English learners to understand without support
Pros
- Comprehension questions address a variety of skills
- Promotes the use of context clues as a reading strategy
- Includes an answer key
Cons
- Story isn't particularly engaging or easy to follow