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Features included in each trade book guide: Before: Overview: provides a full description of the story, its characters, setting, author, and illustrator. Making connections: Allows students to relate personal experiences and prior knowledge to the important themes and concepts of the story. During: Highlighting the story: Provides chapter-by-chapter summaries for planning reading sessions with ideas for meaningful group discussion and writing prompts for keeping a personal literature log. Focus-on: Activities highlight literary elements, author's craft, and story themes and concepts. After: Responding: Encourages personal response to the trade book and promotes learning across the curriculum.-Inside back cover.