Thank you to Juliette R., age 13, for her excellent basketball tips.
Shannon Wright
Pine School Pals: Riley's Fortune
Meet the Pine School second-grade class. This week, Riley is feeling a little bad about her basketball abilities. A friend helps out.
By Meg Richardson
From the March/April 2024 Issue
Children will practice finding the problem and solution in a fiction story.
About the Story
Social and life skills
Practicing, working hard, helping others
Step-by-Step Lesson Plan
Implementation
- Small group; whole group; independent reading
Pairings and Text Connections
- From the Storyworks 2 archive:
This comic is part of a series. Students can look at past print issues or go online to read about the Pine School Pals’ other adventures!
Before-Reading Resources
- Text Preview Bookmarks
(10 minutes) Kids can cut out the fiction bookmark and use it to preview the text.
Suggested Reading Focus
Read as a play, problem/solution (30 minutes)
- Read the first page with your students. You can assign students different roles and read this mini graphic novel aloud like a short play! The main characters are introduced on the first page.
- As you read, ask students to think about what the problem is. Then, when you have finished reading, ask what solution the characters found.
After-Reading Skills Practice
(15 minutes for each activity)
- Problem and Solution: This activity helps students reflect on the structure of the comic they have just read.
- Comics Feature Hunt: This activity helps students identify features of comics.
Be sure to check out our “What's in a Comic?” video! This fun video helps kids understand features of comics, like speech bubbles, thought bubbles, and more.
Text-to-Speech