Rocky Mountain Summer

Fern and Roy travel by covered wagon to the mountains to spend the summer with their grandparents.

• Exciting plots and fully developed narratives engage reluctant readers.
• Carefully chosen vocabulary, natural-sounding dialogue, and manageable chapter lengths ensure reading success.
• Sophisticated covers, trim size, and design make books appealing to upper elementary and middle school readers.
• Multicultural characters and a wide variety of fictional genres offer choices for all students.
• Relevant topics and themes are perfect for English Language Learners.
• Historical and biographical novels enhance the social studies curriculum.

• standards-based skills alignment
• 30 reproducible activities
• objective tests to help you assess vocabulary and literal and inferential comprehension
• before-, during-, and after-reading strategies
• cross-curricular activities
• inquiry strategies
• strategies for ESL learners
• take-home activities and parent letter

• standards-based skills alignment
• 15 to 30 reproducible activites
• objective tests help you assess vocabulary and literal and inferential comprehension
• before-, during-, and after-reading strategies
• cross-curricular activities
• inquiry strategies
• strategies for ESL learners
• take-home activities and parent letter