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Sleepy children everywhere love hearing stories at bedtime, whether read to them or told from memory. Over one hundred years ago, a young English father and writer tucked in his children with creative fables that explained why animals looked—and acted—in certain ways. Night after night he made up imaginative explanations that delighted his children as they lulled to sleep. Eventually, Rudyard Kipling wrote down his Just So Stories so children everywhere could learn how the leopard got its spots, the elephant grew its trunk, and the camel developed a distinctive hump. Let Mr. Kipling inspire you and your children to create your own bedtime stories that are “just so!”
In this issue students will:
- read literary text in the fable genre
- understand the origin of Just So Stories
- identify missing passage by context clues
- sequence phrases into complete sentences
- calculate sums and differences to discover titles
- scour the news for words with the “ph” digraph
- follow visual clues to draw a camel
- use the newspaper to locate and categorize nouns
- research and write three facts about your favorite children’s author
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