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HIGH-INTEREST / LOW-READABILITY Strange But True Stories INTEREST LEVEL: 5-12+ • READING LEVEL: 3.5-4.0 Who isn’t fascinated by the world of the weird? These stories are the ultimate in high-interest reading. Fact or fiction? Real or unreal? Let your students decide. The people, places, and things in these story collections range from the peculiar to the preposterous, from creepy to utterly terrifying, from the odd to the awful. Yet, all are based on eyewitness accounts or the solid scholarship of serious investigators. Whether it’s a puzzle from the past—like the disappearance of Roanoke Colony—or a modern miracle—such as the survival of a boy who’d been “flash frozen”—your students will be enthralled. Five 76-page readers with teacher’s resource guide. FEATURES • Each book contains 15-20 incredible reading experiences. • Dozens of reproducible activities in the Teacher’s Resource Guide extend and enrich students’ reading and language arts skills. • Attractive, airy page design encourages even your most reluctant readers. • Low-readability and short length of stories give many students their first experience of “reading for pleasure.” SAMPLE STORY TOPICS • Toads and fish that fall from the sky • King Tut’s famous curse • Escape from Devil’s Island • The mystery of Stonehenge • The predictions of Nostradamus • One man who beat a whole basketball team • The ghost who goes on dancing • Documented alien encounters • Visits from guardian angels • Mind over matter MR #041939 Stories Book 1 $8.95 MR #041940 Stories Book 2 $8.95 MR #041941 Stories Book 3 $8.95 MR #041942 Stories Book 4 $8.95 MR #041943 Stories Book 5 $8.95 MR #041944 Teacher’s Resource Guide $13.95 SAMPLE SET: 5 books (1 each of 5 titles) plus Teacher’s Resource Guide MR #041945 SAMPLE SET $57.95 COMPLETE SET: 25 books (5 each of 5 titles) plus Teacher’s Resource Guide MR #041946 COMPLETE SET $229.95 LIBRARY SET: 50 books (10 each of 5 titles) plus Teacher’s Resource Guide MR #045685 LIBRARY SET $429.95 130 SHOEMAKER STREET KITCHENER, ONTARIO N2E 3G4 Nonfiction Chapter Books INTEREST LEVEL 6-12+ • READING LEVEL 4-5 Both of these series’ of nonfiction readers will grab a student’s interest from the very first page! Designed with reluctant readers in mind, these riveting 64-page softcover books offer short chapters on high-interest headlines. Each chapter is its own mini-book, which includes a timeline, key terms, and interesting facts. Fascinating black and white photographs keep the pages turning. A bibliography encourages further topical reading. TEACHER’S RESOURCE GUIDES (each book has it’s own teacher’s guide) The Teacher Resource Guides provide over 100 activities and reproducible worksheets to support the books and extend students’ reading skills. Each is 8-1/2” x 11” and 16-pages. A key at the end of each guide provides answers and sample responses. The activities give lower-level readers the tools to construct, extend, and examine the meaning of text. They are built around the essential elements in reading literacy as identified by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. LEARNING ACTIVITIES INCLUDE • Vocabulary skills include decoding words, using words correctly, understanding meanings, and extending the actual amount of words the students know. • Initial understanding of text is the initial impression of what has been read. Skills include identifying details and facts and recognizing aspects of literal text, such as sequence of events or main ideas. • Developing interpretation goes beyond the initial impression to develop a more complete understanding of what was read. The reader must distinguish between and compare separate concepts in a text to extend its meaning. • Personal reflection and response requires readers to connect information from the text with their own general background and knowledge. • Demonstrating a critical stance requires readers to detach themselves from the text in order to consider and evaluate it. CALL FOR PRICES IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ORDER INDIVIDUAL TITLES Disasters Air Disasters Travel by airplane is far safer than travel by car. But airplane accidents still occur, and people onboard rarely survive. Learn the true stories behind tragedies in Tenerife, the Andes Mountains, Washington D.C., the Soviet Union, the Persian Gulf, and New York City. Earthquakes Earthquakes are caused by shifts in the Earth’s plates. Shock waves from these events cause varying amounts of destruction based on their magnitude. Often, earthquakes cause other disasters as well, such as fires and tsunami. Read here about major earthquakes in San Francisco, Mexico City, Japan, Lisbon, and China. Environmental Disasters As society moves forward technologically and scientifically, pollution wrecks the natural environment. Learn here about the effects of industrial accidents such as the Great Smog of London, Love Canal, the Hanford nuclear plant, the Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl, and Bhopal. Fires Fires can start in many different ways and spread rapidly. When a fire gets out of control, people often panic. Fire disasters described here include London Bridge, the Great Fire of London, the Morro Castle, the Great Fire of Chicago, Iroquois Theater, and Warwick, RI. Mountain Disasters Even expert mountain climbers face danger and risk. Some of these risks result from human negligence; others are due to the weather or other uncontrollable factors. Accidents and their aftermath on the Eiger, Mount Everest, Mount Hood, Siula Grande, and Denali are analyzed in these accounts of bravery at the top of the world. Sea Disasters Freakish weather, human error, and devastating war are some of the causes of history’s most frightening disasters at sea. Read here about such infamous disasters as the Titanic, the Lusitania, the Eastland, the Andrea Doria, and the Kursk. Space Disasters Space travel gives us a better understanding of ourselves, our planet, and the universe. But not all missions are successful and not all astronauts return. Read about the heroes of Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Soyuz 11, Challenger, and Columbia. Deadly Storms Today scientists can predict weather patterns. Despite these forecasts, storms can develop so fast that people have no chance to escape. Read about the havoc wrecked by tropical storms and tornadoes in Bangladesh, Galveston, Central America, the Midwest, and New England. Terrorism Understanding acts of terrorism and how terrorists justify their horrible crimes will help us maintain a vigilant stance in a dangerous world. Find out more about the Munich Massacre, crimes of the SLA, the Achille Lauro hijacking, the Unabomber, the Oklahoma City bombing, and attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Volcanoes Now we understand how and why volcanoes erupt. But still, volcanoes destroy property and cause deaths. Read the awe-inspiring stories of nature’s power on Mount Vesuvius, Mount St. Helens, Krakatoa, Mt. Pelee, Mount Pinatubo, Mauna Loa, and Kilauea. SAMPLE SET: 10 books and 10 Teacher’s Resource Guides (1 of each title) MR #036737 DISASTER SAMPLE SET $96.95 LIBRARY SET: 50 books (5 of each title) and all 10 Teacher’s Resource Guides MR #036739 DISASTER LIBRARY SET $329.95 BEST SELLER www.mindresources.ca BEST SELLING SERIES Astonishing Headlines Attacked What does it mean to be free? Would you fight a king for your freedom? Would you publicly protest what you believe to be unjust? Thousands have done just that! What can we learn from these courageous men and women? Read about people, their battles, and how they changed nations. Captured Read about some of history’s most exciting captures! Tragedy or triumph? It all depends on who—or what—is captured. The captive might be a runaway slave during the Civil War, or a war criminal caught long after World War II. Condemned What does it mean to be condemned? Condemned buildings are torn down. Condemned people are executed. Read about the fight to save Grand Central Station. Learn about an ancient redwood tree slated for the ax. Discover how the secrets of DNA can free a wrongly imprisoned man. Kidnapped Taken from their homes or seized from their cars, kidnapping victims and their families face a terrifying ordeal. Some kidnappers want money; others do it for political reasons. Learn the frightening details of the Lindbergh, Hill, Anderson, and Smart abductions. Lost and Found We have all lost something at one time or another. But has anyone ever lost a whole airplane including the pilot? Here are stories of a lost plane and pilot, a dog, a brother, and even a whole city! Some have been found or rediscovered. Others remain missing. Missing When something or someone turns up missing, it is unexpected—often even a gripping mystery. Law enforcement professionals are skilled at tracking the missing. Sometimes, however, a disappearance is inexplicable. A spacecraft disappears millions of miles from Earth. A ship or plane vanishes in the Bermuda Triangle. What explains these mysteries? Shot Down! One minute the plane is flying high. Next, a bullet or a missile hits the plane, and it begins to fall from the sky. Sometimes the airplane explodes and all is lost. Sometimes the crew can eject. Read about the heroism, the tragedies, and a very big question: When is it OK to shoot down a plane? Stowed Away Desperate and poor, stowaways risk their lives in an attempt to secure freedom or a higher standard of living. Some succeed; others suffer tragedy and heartbreak. Learn the fate of a famous explorer, a runaway slave, a teenager who hid in the wheel well of an airplane, and a man who shipped himself from New York to Texas. Stranded at Sea Imagine being thousands of miles out to sea. The weather shows no mercy. Whether caught in a storm, shot down by a torpedo, or forced overboard by an angry crew, being stranded at sea is a frightening experience. Learn that we have yet to tame the oceans. Trapped! Imagine the horror of being trapped in a deadly place! People have been trapped in many ways—trapped by fire, by water, or trapped underground. Some have even been trapped in molasses! Sometimes they escaped... and sometimes they didn’t. Read the stories behind the headlines. Learn what it was like to be trapped! SAMPLE SET: 10 books and 10 Teacher’s Resource Guides (1 of each title) MR #036735 ASTONISH SAMPLE SET $96.95 LIBRARY SET: 50 books (5 of each title) and all 10 Teacher’s Resource Guides MR #041947 ASTONISH LIBRARY SET $329.95 PHONE: 1-877-414-6463 FAX: (519) 895-0331 BEST SELLER (TOLL FREE) 167
HIGH-INTEREST / LOW-READABILITY Carter High — High-Interest Chapter Books by Eleanor Robins INTEREST LEVEL 8-12, ELL • READING LEVEL 2 Meet the students of Carter High—they are a diverse group of teens from a variety of backgrounds. Each softcover book features a character embroiled in a typical high school dilemma. Topics are involving and pertinent to young adult readers: romance, sports, friendship, exams, work, family. In just 48-pages, even your least motivated readers can easily finish these novels! TEACHER’S RESOURCE GUIDES (each book has it’s own teacher’s guide) The Teacher’s Resource Guides provide over 100 activities and reproducible worksheets to support the books and extend students’ reading skills. Each is 8½” x 11” and 16-pages. A key at the end of each guide provides answers and sample responses. The activities give lower-level readers the tools to construct, extend, and examine the meaning of text. LEARNING ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: • Vocabulary skills include decoding words, using words correctly, understanding meanings, and extending the amount of words known. • Identifying details and facts and recognizing aspects of literal text, such as sequence of events or main ideas. • The reader must distinguish between and compare separate concepts in a text to extend its meaning. • Personal reflection and response requires readers to connect information from the text with their own general background and knowledge. • Demonstrating a critical stance requires readers to detach themselves from the text in order to consider and evaluate it. CALL FOR PRICES IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ORDER INDIVIDUAL TITLES. BEST SELLER BEST SELLING SERIES Walker High Mysteries by Eleanor Robins INTEREST LEVEL 8-12, ELL • READING LEVEL 2 Walker High is a typical high school. The students of Walker attend classes, participate in sports and drama, cram for exams, and go on field trips. Topics are involving and pertinent to young adult readers: romance, sports, friendship, exams, work, and family but with a twist of mystery. In just 48-pages, even your struggling readers can easily finish these novels! TEACHER’S RESOURCE GUIDES (each book has it’s own teacher’s guide) The Teacher’s Resource Guides provide over 100 activities and reproducible worksheets to support the books and extend students’ reading skills. Each is 8½” x 11” and 16-pages. A key at the end of each guide provides answers and sample responses. The activities give lower-level readers the tools to construct, extend, and examine the meaning of text. LEARNING ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: • Vocabulary skills include decoding words, using words correctly, understanding meanings, and extending the amount of words known. • Identifying details and facts and recognizing aspects of literal text, such as sequence of events or main ideas. • The reader must distinguish between and compare separate concepts in a text to extend its meaning. • Personal reflection and response requires readers to connect information from the text with their own general background and knowledge. • Demonstrating a critical stance requires readers to detach themselves from the text in order to consider and evaluate it. CALL FOR PRICES IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ORDER INDIVIDUAL TITLES. BEST SELLER Carter High Chronicles Back-Up Quarterback Dan has worked hard for three years to earn the quarterback slot at Carter High. But Clay, the new kid in school, is better and wins the position. Can Dan get over his disappointment and contribute to the team? The Best Week Ever Deb has a reading problem, and is self-conscious about it. The smart boys on campus intimidate her—she’s convinced they don’t like her. But she is kind, helpful and a girl of her word, and turns down a date to help an ill neighbor. Boy of Their Dreams Kim and Fran are best friends. They are both crazy about a new boy in school; but they don’t know that it is the same boy! Kim figures it out, and struggles with what is more important, saving her longtime friendship or beginning a new one. Don’t Blame Me June has a hair-trigger temper and it gets her in trouble on and off the volleyball court. When Coach Dale kicks her off of the team, and her boyfriend Zack breaks up with her, June can’t understand why. The Easy Way Laine is the best shooter on the girls’ basketball team, but she’s lazy. She only wants to do what she’s good at, she doesn’t want to work hard or practice. Will her laziness penalize the entire team? The Fastest Runner Ben and Ed both have the same last name. A mix-up in the front office allows Ben to participate in track, even though he failed his math class. Will Ben confess his failure and deception to the coach, or will he put the entire team in jeopardy by participating in a track meet? It Is Not a Date Kirk’s boss asks him give his niece a tennis lesson. Kirk agrees, but then must tell his girlfriend, who becomes infuriated. Kirk figures if he takes his little sister to the tennis lesson, he’ll keep his agreement with his boss, and keep his girlfriend from becoming too upset, because “it is not a date”. One Date Too Many Paz has a date with Juan for the dance, but there’s a rumor that Cruz is going to ask her too. She would rather go out with Cruz, but she’s already made the commitment to Juan. The class clown, Griff, and busybody, Marge, meddle in the whole affair. The Right Kind of Win Carter High has to beat the toughest team in the league to win the state finals in baseball. The team is motivated to beat Hillman High. But a technicality might force Hillman to forfeit. Would that be the right kind of win? Too Late Matt is always late. But he doesn’t think it’s important until he loses his girlfriend, Sue, angers his history teacher, Miss Brent, and his best friend, Troy. Worst of all, he misses the team bus, gets left behind and misses the big game. SAMPLE SET: 10 books and 10 Teacher’s Resource Guides (1 of each title) MR #035759 CHRONICLES SAMPLE SET $86.95 LIBRARY SET: 50 books (5 of each title) and all 10 Teacher’s Resource Guides MR #035758 CHRONICLES LIBRARY SET $279.95 168 130 SHOEMAKER STREET KITCHENER, ONTARIO N2E 3G4 Carter High Senior Year Be Fair Dru thinks it is her father’s fault that she can’t spend her senior year at her old high school. However, she soon learns that judging people unfairly gets her nowhere. Troy could be Dru’s new boyfriend, but will Dru’s quick judgment get in the way of a new friendship? It Does Matter Laine used to think that it was OK to be a few minutes late. She often put her own needs before others, especially her best friend, Tess. However, when she misses out on a seat on the bus next to Griff and disappoints Tess, Laine finds out the hard way that being late does matter. Just Be Yourself Starting your senior year at a new school is tough. Harder still when you can’t hear some of what is said to you. Rick wanted the Carter High students to like him. He thought if they knew he wore a hearing aid, they wouldn’t want to be his friends. Luckily, Ed shows Rick that it is better to be yourself rather than pretend to be someone else. The Last Time Ben relies on others to do things for him. He often sleeps in and sometimes even forgets his homework and textbooks. In the past, his mom has brought them to school. However, Ben’s mom quickly decides that she will no longer keep Ben out of trouble. One More Chance June has learned to control her temper, but has she learned to work with others? When Eve hurts her ankle, Kim is placed on the starting volleyball team. June has to decide whether to help Kim improve her serves or risk losing the season. Can June get past her junior year grudge? Someone to Count On Cruz likes to date lots of girls. He dated Ana and Paz, but really wanted to date Tia. She was the girl that all of the boys wanted to ask out. While Rey, Al, and Ana all have dates for the spring dance, Cruz discovers that he needs to be someone to count on. Will Cruz have a date for the dance or will his past treatment of others catch up with him? Time to Move On Bel spent spring break caring for her sick aunt. She didn’t see her boyfriend, Al, for over a week. Bel couldn’t wait to talk to him. But Al never called her. Now spring break is over and Al is avoiding her. Is it time for Bel to move on? A Very Good Year Clay is the starting quarterback for the Carter High football team. He works hard to get what he wants. Clay wants to date Kim, but she turned him down last year. When Clay helps Hank with his passes, he finds out that Kim studies with Hank’s sister. It could be the start of a very good year. Worst Year Ever Everything seemed to stack up against Griff. He had Mr. Reese for science and Coach Mann for P.E. He disappointed both teachers his junior year. Now he had to face them for another year. Even worse, Laine was in one of his classes. If she didn’t like him last year, why would she this year? The Wrong Way Some girls said Marge didn’t have to act to play the troublemaker in the senior play. Claire isn’t so sure they are wrong, but she is lonely. First, she loses Kirk to Gwen. Then she finds out Gwen wants her part in the play. Marge is always around when she needs someone. SAMPLE SET: 10 books and 10 Teacher’s Resource Guides (1 of each title) MR #035762 SENIOR YEAR SAMPLE SET $86.95 LIBRARY SET: 50 books (5 of each title) and all 10 Teacher’s Resource Guides MR #035761 SENIOR YEAR LIBRARY SET $279.95 www.mindresources.ca Walker High Mysteries Art Show Mystery Paige learned a lot about painting in Miss Brock’s art class this year. She’s very pleased with one particular painting she produced for the art show, and hopes to win a prize with it. But classmates Steve and Kay are oddly unsupportive. Then the painting goes missing! Aztec Ring Mystery Jack, Carl, Steve, and Lin are excited about Mr. Flint’s visit to Walker High. He’s going to display authentic Aztec artifacts along with a very rare and valuable ring. After class, Mr. Flint allows Jack a few minutes alone with the ring so he can examine it more closely. Clown Costume Mystery Steve’s excited when he gets the lead in Mrs. Drake’s English class play about a clown. He’ll get to work with Brooke, who will play his wife. But things go wrong when the ticket money is stolen by someone wearing a clown costume. The Field Trip Mystery When Mr. Zane, the science teacher, announces a Friday field trip, Carl and Todd are disappointed. They both have other plans for Friday, but the field trip is required. Mr. Zane suspects that something is up when the parent consent letters disappear. Library Book Mystery Lin and Kris are both good students, but Lin always seems to do just a little bit better on tests and papers than Kris. When Miss Trent asks everyone to choose a person to write a biography about, Lin gets to choose first. And she chooses the same person Kris wanted. Lucky Falcon Mystery The Walker High Falcons football team can win the championship if they can only beat rival Newton High. The Falcons are a great team, but everyone thinks that the wooden statue of a falcon that Ric made is bringing the team good luck this season. The Missing Test Mystery Carl, the Walker High Falcons quarterback, is failing history. If Carl fails his test, Coach Reed will replace him. So Carl studies hard and feels confident that he does well. Bu when Mrs. Scott goes to grade the test, it turns up missing. The Secret Admirer Mystery Lin and Gail have plans for the upcoming dance, but Paige doesn’t have a date yet. Steve decides to help her get a date, but Paige wants him to mind his own business. But when Steve returns a book he’s borrowed Paige finds a note from a secret admirer. The Secret Message Quinn is a new girl at school, and Steve wants to date her. But Quinn is playing hard-to-get, and won’t give Steve a straight answer. Finally, she responds in the form of a secret encoded message. Can Steve’s friends help him decode the message? Where is Mr. Zane? Mr. Zane is giving a test in his science classes. His tests are tough, so everyone studies hard. Everyone, that is, except Carl who had so much history homework, he didn’t get to study for science. Then Mr. Zane doesn’t show up for his first peiord class. SAMPLE SET: 10 books and 10 Teacher’s Resource Guides (1 of each title) MR #041967 WALKER HIGH SAMPLE SET $86.95 LIBRARY SET: 50 books (5 of each title) and all 10 Teacher’s Resource Guides MR #041969 WALKER HIGH LIBRARY SET $279.95 PHONE: 1-877-414-6463 FAX: (519) 895-0331 (TOLL FREE)
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