Use the stories your students love as a springboard to teach key skills. With the cooperative activities in this book, you instill a love of literature as well as achieve a wide range of Common Core objectives. With the activities for before, during, and after reading, students will participate in collaborative conversations, they will build on the ideas and talking of others, they will demonstrate understanding of the central message, they will explain differences between books, recount stories, describe characters, and so much more. Activities are based on the following children's literature: Miss Nelson is Missing, Officer Buckly and Gloria, Stellaluna, A Turkey for Thanksgiving, Cinderella & Yeh-Shen, Tacky the Penguin, Alexander and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Me on the Map, Tops and Bottoms, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, How I Spent My Summer Vacation. - from Amzon