General Tips:

  • First page is used as a navigation page.
  • Encourage students to read content thoroughly before going on to the next page.
  • Encourage students to study rubrics in order to create accurate products.
  • Ohio Content Standards Addressed:
  • Make meaning through asking and responding to a variety of questions related to text
  • Describe and analyze the elements of character development
  • Use text features and graphics to organize, analyze and draw inferences from content and to gain additional information.
  • http://www.ode.state.oh.us/academic_content_standards/pdf/ENGLISH.pdf
  • Key for quiz bonus questions

Citations:

http://www.ode.state.oh.us/academic_content_standards/pdf/ENGLISH.pdf

http://www.alicehoffman.com

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/mermaid.html

http://www.perspective.com/nature/animalia/starfish.html

Tompkins, G. (1998). 50 literacy strategies. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Hoffman, A. (2001). Aquamarine. New York: Scholastic-Press.