Orca Currents Resource Guide

Orca Currents Resource Guide PDF Author: Kate Hill
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554693756
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Book Description
Orca Soundings are teen novels for reluctant readers. Orca Currents are middle-school novels for reluctant readers. Written at a grade 2.0 to grade 4.5 reading level, these compelling contemporary novels have proven incredibly popular with teachers and librarians looking for material that will engage their most reluctant of readers. Orca has always provided professionally written teachers guides to accompany these books. Now we offer a complete resource guide to enable classroom integration of these popular titles. Including sections on reading levels, book discussion groups, literacy circles, assessment and follow-up activities, this resource guide enables a teacher to implement the Orca Soundings and Orca Currents series as part of a comprehensive independent reading and literacy unit.

Orca Currents Resource Guide

Orca Currents Resource Guide PDF Author: Kate Hill
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554693756
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Book Description
Orca Soundings are teen novels for reluctant readers. Orca Currents are middle-school novels for reluctant readers. Written at a grade 2.0 to grade 4.5 reading level, these compelling contemporary novels have proven incredibly popular with teachers and librarians looking for material that will engage their most reluctant of readers. Orca has always provided professionally written teachers guides to accompany these books. Now we offer a complete resource guide to enable classroom integration of these popular titles. Including sections on reading levels, book discussion groups, literacy circles, assessment and follow-up activities, this resource guide enables a teacher to implement the Orca Soundings and Orca Currents series as part of a comprehensive independent reading and literacy unit.

Maxed Out

Maxed Out PDF Author: Daphne Greer
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554699843
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125

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Book Description
Key Selling Points This book was nominated for Best Quick Read by the American Library Association. Maxed Out is the first of two books that feature brothers Duncan and Max. The second, Camped Out, won the Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award. Enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.

Speaking Our Truth

Speaking Our Truth PDF Author: Monique Gray Smith
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 145981584X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Book Description
Holding each other up with respect, dignity and kindness.

Benched

Benched PDF Author: Cristy Watson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554699622
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Book Description
When Cody and his friends accept a challenge from a local gang to steal a park bench, their main concern is keeping themselves on the gang's good side. Cody learns that the stolen bench had been dedicated to the father of the English teacher who sponsors the school newspaper—the paper that Cody has just started writing for—and he's worried about the consequences. As the gang applies pressure for more from Cody and his friends, he realizes they've crossed a line, and now he has to figure out how to make it right.

Living Rough

Living Rough PDF Author: Cristy Watson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554698901
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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Book Description
In most ways, Poe is like the other kids in his school. He thinks about girls and tries to avoid too much contact with teachers. He has a loving father who helps him with his homework. But Poe has a secret, and almost every day some small act threatens to expose him. He doesn't have a phone number to give to friends. He doesn't have an address. Poe and his father are living in a tent on city land. When the city clears the land to build housing, Poe worries that they might not be able to find another site near his school. Will Poe have to expose his secret to get help for himself and his father? This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

Flower Power

Flower Power PDF Author: Ann Walsh
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554696216
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Book Description
Key Selling Points This is a story full of humor and heart with a cast of multigenerational women working together for change. Flower Power was shortlisted for the Chocolate Lily Book Award. Enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.

Orca Currents Resource Guide

Orca Currents Resource Guide PDF Author: Susan Greye
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1551439565
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Book Description
A teacher's resource for Orca Currents, high-interest low-vocab novels for middle school readers.

Chick: Lister

Chick: Lister PDF Author: Alex Van Tol
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459810031
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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Book Description
Key Selling Points New, enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.

Branded

Branded PDF Author: Eric Walters
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554694485
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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Book Description
The principal announces that the school is implementing uniforms, and Ian finds himself caught in a conflict. Julia, the student body president and Ian's friend, wants Ian to devise a plan to fight the decision, but the principal is determined to convince Ian the uniforms are a good idea. Ian doesn't see the problem with uniforms and wants nothing to do with the issue, but while doing research for a social-justice class, Ian learns that the manufacturer of the uniforms is on the top-ten list in the industry for human-rights violations. When he tells the principal their clothing is being made in sweatshops using child labor, all he gets is a reminder that the penalty for refusing to wear the uniforms is expulsion. Ian finds himself caught in a whole new conflict—one with himself.

Vanish

Vanish PDF Author: Karen Spafford-Fitz
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459803515
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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Book Description
Fourteen-year-old Simone is having trouble making friends at her new school when her leadership studies class is paired with kindergarten students to mentor throughout the school year. To her surprise, Simone enjoys the Kinderbuddy Project, and she develops a special friendship with her Kinderbuddy, Lily. But as the bond between Simone and her Kinderbuddy grows, she realizes that a crisis is looming in Lily's family. Simone calls upon Aaron, the reluctant heartthrob of the class, for help, and they become key witnesses to events neither of them could have predicted.