Chasing Vermeer Teacher Guide

Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545541015

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Chasing Vermeer (Scholastic Gold) by Blue Balliett Pdf

Chasing Vermeer joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!When a book of unexplainable occurences brings Petra and Calder together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect; an eccentric old woman seeks their company; an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem solving skills, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has stumped even the FBI?

Author : Linda Herman,Novel Units, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1581309244

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Chasing Vermeer Teacher Guide by Linda Herman,Novel Units, Inc. Staff Pdf

Presents resources for teaching Blue Balliett's "Chasing Vermeer" to fifth and sixth grade students, including a summary, author profile, pre-reading and culminating activities, vocabulary exercises, discussion questions, and activities for each section.

Author : Novel Units
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1502015455

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Chasing Vermeer Novel Units End of Book Test Teacher Guide by Novel Units Pdf

Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545532297

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The Danger Box by Blue Balliett Pdf

An all-new mystery from the bestselling author of Chasing Vermeer and The Calder Game!A boy in a small town who has a different way of seeing.A curious girl who doesn't belong.A mysterious notebook.A missing father.A fire.A stranger.A death.These are some of the things you'll find within The Danger Box, the new mystery from bestselling author Blue Balliett.Open with care.

Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545279130

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The Calder Game by Blue Balliett Pdf

This new mystery from bestselling author Blue Balliett is now available in After Words paperback!When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery . . . including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have less-than-friendly feelings towards it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem to be out of place . . . and then, on the same night, they disappear! Calder's friends Petra and Tommy must fly out to help his father find him. But this mystery has more twists and turns than a Calder mobile . . . with more at stake than first meets the eye.

Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545362320

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The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett Pdf

From the New York Times-bestselling team behind Chasing Vermeer comes another thought-provoking art mystery featuring Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house--now in After Words paperback! Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and it's up to the two junior sleuths to piece together the clues. Stir in the return of Calder's friend Tommy (which creates a tense triangle), H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man, 3-D pentominoes, and the hunt for a coded message left behind by Wright, and the kids become tangled in a dangerous web in which life and art intermingle with death, deception, and surprise.

Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545510196

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Hold Fast by Blue Balliett Pdf

From NYT bestselling author Blue Balliett, the story of a girl who falls into Chicago's shelter system, and from there must solve the mystery of her father's strange disappearance. Where is Early's father? He's not the kind of father who would disappear. But he's gone . . . and he's left a whole lot of trouble behind.As danger closes in, Early, her mom, and her brother have to flee their apartment. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to move into a city shelter. Once there, Early starts asking questions and looking for answers. Because her father hasn't disappeared without a trace. There are patterns and rhythms to what's happened, and Early might be the only one who can use them to track him down and make her way out of a very tough place.With her signature, singular love of language and sense of mystery, Blue Balliett weaves a story that takes readers from the cold, snowy Chicago streets to the darkest corner of the public library, on an unforgettable hunt for deep truths and a reunited family.

Author : Chad Ibbotson
Publisher : Classroom Complete Press
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780228304906

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Chasing Vermeer - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6 by Chad Ibbotson Pdf

Help find a stolen painting while solving clues that lead to a hidden message. The included answer key is easy to use, making this resource the perfect comprehensive tool for any novel study. Describe a series of coincidences that occur in the novel. Infer what Petra's father may be hiding based on his actions, and what you would do in the character's shoes. Number the events that occur in Ms. Hussey's class in the order that they happen in the chapter. Predict what Calder will do once he starts questioning Mrs. Sharpe's innocence. Take the book's theme of ancestry into the real world by writing a short fictional story about ancestors interacting with historical figures. Name and describe the key locations in the book and detail how the setting impacted the plot. Aligned to your State Standards, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: Chasing Vermeer is an action-packed story filled with mystery, danger and coincidences. Calder Pillay and Petra Andalee live on the same street, but they may as well be strangers. When a series of odd events take place, the two take notice and begin questioning the signs around them. A strange assignment from their teacher encourages them to look deeper into the works of Johannes Vermeer. When one of Vermeer's paintings is stolen, the pair team up in the hopes of solving the mystery behind the art theft. A series of coincidences lead the pair down a rabbit hole of clues that eventually lead them to solving two seemingly unrelated mysteries. Chasing Vermeer encourages the reader to follow along with the mystery to help solve a message hidden within its pages.

Author : Beverly Cleary
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061972157

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Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary Pdf

Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s Book Beverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever. From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.

Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545299918

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Pieces and Players by Blue Balliett Pdf

When 13 high-value pieces of art are stolen from a secret museum, Calder, Petra and Tommy are grouped with two new companions to solve puzzles that are complicated by the clever Mrs. Sharpe.

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429915649

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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Pdf

NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic that has delighted children for over 60 years! "A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart." —Meg Cabot Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murray, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract--a wrinkle that transports one across space and time--to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murray is being held captive. There they discover a dark force that threatens not only Mr. Murray but the safety of the whole universe. A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet.

Author : Anne Troy,Novel Units, Inc. Staff,Starr L. Hull,Phyllis Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Children
ISBN : 1561371548

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Standards Based End-of-Book Test for Chasing Vermeer by Anne Troy,Novel Units, Inc. Staff,Starr L. Hull,Phyllis Green Pdf

Describes suggested activities to accompany the reading of The outsiders.

Author : Sheela Chari
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683350613

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Finding Mighty by Sheela Chari Pdf

Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla’s necklace and the disappearance of Peter’s brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it’s too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all? Drawing on urban art forms and local history, Finding Mighty is a mystery that explores the nature of art and the unbreakable bonds of family.

Author : Dusti Bowling
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781454923466

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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling Pdf

“Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even after the last page has turned.” —School Library Journal (Starred review) Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she’ll have to answer the question over and over again. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. It’s hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. But Aven’s about to discover she can do it all . . . even without arms. Autumn 2017 Kids’ Indie Next Pick Junior Library Guild Selection Library of Congress's 52 Great Reads List 2018

Author : Bill Doyle
Publisher : Teaching Resources
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Critical thinking
ISBN : 054508315X

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Mysteries by Bill Doyle Pdf

Clue in students to key reading skills with this collection of 15 action-packed mysteries. As students read each case, they'll get the scoop on how to analyze character, read for details, understand cause and effect, make inferences, summarize, and so much more. Each reproducible story comes with a teacher page that includes before- and after-reading suggestions, writing and discussion prompts, and a vocabulary list.