Enjoy solving riddles? Perhaps Sal, a character in Walk Two Moons, is the only one capable of understanding a mysterious message left on her doorstep. On a road trip with her grandparent, Sal tries to make sense of the bizarre world around her. Readers complete worksheets using new vocabulary words, answering comprehension questions, analyzing characters, and writing similes.

Concepts

responding to literature, studying literature, novels

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Research the real town in Kentucky on which the fictional town is based
• List and discuss the meanings of wise old sayings

Classroom Considerations

• Contains a preview of a full novel study rather than the entire book
  

Pros

• Incorporates poetry
• Questions examine author's craft

Cons

• Does not include an answer key

Common Core

RL.5.1 RL.5.2 RL.5.3 RL.5.4 RL.5.5