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Pecos Bill

Price: $2.99, format: 7 page PDF, grades: 2,3,4,5

Children love the exaggerations and hyperbole in Tall Tales. This issue introduces young readers to one of the Wild West's most colorful characters - Pecos Bill. Students will enjoy identifying areas where the truth has been stretched to make the story more colorful. An opportunity to use the newspaper to create a tall tale of their own from a sports story will help practice writing skills in a fun and motivating way.

In this issue students will:
• identify the characteristics of a tall tale
• use the newspaper to locate a story as the basis for their own tall tale
• use nouns, adjectives and verbs correctly in context
• identify different kids of sentences
• use the internet to locate information
• conduct a poll and summarize results