Excite and engage your students with Hamilton: An American Musical, as they develop critical literacy and comprehension skills. This standards-based text provides rigorous activities and questions for teachers studying Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway play. Students will learn how to analyze story elements, develop vocabulary, and integrate higher-order thinking skills as they practice close reading and text-dependent questions. A rubric and cross-curricular questions are included to assess student comprehension in a classroom. The questions in the comprehension assessment section are modeled after standardized tests to help students analyze what they've read and prepare for tests they may see in their classrooms.

 

This book is part of a book series called Great Works .

. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 72 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Shell Educational Publishing .

Emily Smith is a winner of The Smarties Gold Award. Her previous book for Orchard, Whem Mum threw out the Telly, was shortlisted for The Blue Peter Award.