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Scary Day, The
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478122657
Copyright Date: 1999
Grade Level:
5
Reading Level:
T
Strategy/Skill:
Character study, Figurative language, Forming opinions, making judgements, Prior knowledge, Writer's craft
Genre:
Realistic Fiction
Theme/Topic:
Natural Disasters, Personal Change, School and Community
Classification:
Fiction
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Book Summary
Seth is not enjoying school much. He stares out of the window while he is trying to write a story that his teacher has set the class. But a violent earthquake shakes Seth out of his apathy, and he has to make some fast, effective decisions on what turns out to be the scariest day of his life.
Features of the Book
- The style of the illustrations
- The theme of personal growth
- Information about coping in a disaster
- Vivid descriptions
- Variety of interesting verbs – faded, tugged, wriggled
- The use of simile – like a gunshot; like a giant glass bubble
Purpose
The Scary Day can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills:
- reviewing students’ prior knowledge
- looking at how the author describes the setting of the story
- supporting opinions with evidence from the text
- discussing the use of literary devices such as similes
- reviewing the features of procedural text
- discussing how characters change as a result of events in the text
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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