We know your plight. You have to prepare your students to pass high-stakes tests using a limited array of resources. Textbooks will teach standards but won’t necessarily win any awards for student engagement or readability. Fiction books are engaging, but don’t teach state standards. Nonfiction books are full of pictures and tend to teach broader standards, but it's hard to find any that teach the specific concepts addressed in the official Georgia, New York, North Carolina, and California curriculum standards. Face it, you don’t find nonfiction books stuck to the foreheads of reluctant readers (unless you haven’t spelled out the rules for glue usage in your classroom).
Developed by an educator and published by an educational nonprofit, Attack of the Chicken Nugget Man makes test prep fun by teaching to the curriculum, not just the test. It was written for students reading at a 3rd grade level to prevent text complexity from interrupting the strategic reading process. This high-interest book incorporates:
- Instructional support traditionally only found in textbooks
- Humor, literary style, and engagement of bookstore fiction
- Readability and fluency-building structure of guided reading materials
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