In this lesson, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Students will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were made and interpret that the trade were poor. Then students will write friendly letters to the character in the poem to explain why the trades were poor ones. [Requires Adobe Reader.]

Concepts

coins, counting money, trading

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Additional Tags

trading coins, northern nevada writing project, numberfix, writingfix, friendly letter, identifying coins and bills, narrative poem

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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