Publisher's Synopsis
"Family Comes First, Every Time" is his Momma's creed. Sammy lives up to the creed, saves his family and meets a great new friend before being caught up in an amazing new adventure.
NOTE: This listing is for the BOOK only. Plush toy is NOT included.
BACKGROUND
Known as a "Stuffed Yarn," Sammy's story takes the reader on an adventure and then invites the reader to participate.
The book includes proven literacy tools to help your child improve his or her reading and writing skills. Stuffed Yarnz believes that the best way to grow key literacy skills is by engaging young minds in the creation of imaginative worlds and stories. We provide young people with stories that delight and inspire and then pair those yarns with both an invitation to extend the story and tools to help them read and write better.
INCLUDED LITERACY TOOLS
- Invitation to write a new adventure
- Seas/Oceans Focused Word Search
- Seas/Oceans Focused Word Scramble
- Yarn Analysis Worksheet
- Narrative Writing Analysis Worksheet
- Character Profile Worksheet
- 4 Writing Prompts
- Powerful Verbs Prompts and Worksheet
- Powerful Adjectives Prompts and Worksheet
- Scientific and Anatomical Facts about Seals
- Seal Anatomy Diagram
THE SEA CREATURE SERIES
Sammy's Story is one of several yarns that are intertwined. Read them all to experience the complete story.
Children's stories have rarely looked, or felt, like this. These delightful creatures have stories of their own to share with you. Each has a unique adventure as they take part in a series with other similar animals. You and your child are invited to join in by learning about the creature's story and then contributing to that yarn with your own ideas and imagination. Proven literacy tools are included with each yarn to grow young people's love for reading, writing and knowledge.
The oceans are beautiful and mysterious, concealing both great beauty and great cunning. The sea creatures have banded together on a sinister plan. Spies, messengers, lookouts, guards, diggers, and others work together to achieve "The Great Plan" but inexplicable things are happening to change the course of history.
READING LEVEL AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
3th - 6th grade reading level
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 3.6
Flesch Reading Ease score: 88.9 (Easy to Read)
Common Core Standards
RL1: Citing textual evidence
RL2: Determine a theme
RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text.
RL10: Read and comprehend literature at grade appropriate level
W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
W4: Produce clear and coherent writing
W10: Write routinely over extended time frames
L1,2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar
L3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing
L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing: 3, 4, 5, 10
