Most Popular Books by Thomas Rockwell

Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.

Billy''s friends are sore that Billy ate all the worms and won the bet (in How to Eat Fried Worms). They recruit the prettiest girl in school to humiliate Billy, but their plan backfires. Billy and the girl begin to like each other.

Tim doesn''t understand his playmate who vandalizes an old man''s shack and is suspected of theft.

Billy is sure he can come up with the right numbers to win the lottery. He knows exactly what he''s going to do with the prize. But when he does win, it seems that practically eveyone he knows wants some of the money. All the people around him are acting strange. Will Billy have to split his winnings? What happened to the fun of just playing the game?

Based on the novel by Thomas Rockwell, this Literature Units will supplement the teacher''s own ideas, to encourage students read and discuss other books by Thomas Rockwell. This book includes integrated lessons and projects which may be used with a book you are reading with the class or be adapted to stories in your reading series. Ideas are developed to guide students in individualised as well as co-operative learning activities. There are eight useful sections: Pre-reading activities, reading response journals, vocabulary ideas, book report ideas, graphic organisers, multiple intelligences, Bloom''s taxonomy activities and culminating activities.