Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
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After hearing his math teacher say that almost everything can be thought of as a math problem, the boy in this story faces a day in which everything he encounters is a math problem. Will the Math Curse ever end? Readers will quickly become engaged in the story by trying to help the boy solve his problems.
Possible strategy instruction:
- C: Determine and analyze author's purpose and support with text.
- C: Ask questions throughout the reading process.
- A: Trade a word/guess a word that makes sense.
- F: Read text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling.
- F: Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text.
- E: Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in speaking and writing.
- E: Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools.
