Pieces Of Another World (Arbordale Collection)

This touching story of a father and child s nighttime excursion to watch a meteor shower is told through the eyes of a child in awe of the night world. Rockliff s vivid descriptions make readers feel as though they too are watching the tiny bits of other, distant worlds blazing into our own.The For Creative Minds education section includes teaching trivia about meteors, meteor showers, comets, and asteroids as well as a Meteor Math game, a Five Steps to a Fantastic Meteor Watching Party checklist, and a recipe for comet cookies. This fictional story includes a 4-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 49-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Pieces of Another World is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs. Also available in the following Language: Spanish: Pedazos de otro mundo ISBN 9781628553543