Sarah, Plain and Tall
Sarah, Plain and Tall

Author: Patricia MacLachlan

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1987-09-04

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0064402053

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"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Anna, and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings. Sarah decides to come for a month. She writes Papa: I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall, and Tell them I sing. Anna and Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she like them? Will she stay?

Caleb's Story
Caleb's Story

Author: Patricia MacLachlan

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2002-08-06

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780064405904

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Anna has done something terrible. She has given me her journal to fill. In Anna′s journal the words walk across the page like bird prints in the mud. But it is hard for me. It is hard for me to find things to write about. "It′s your job now," Anna says as she hands Caleb her journals, asking him to continue writing the family story. But Sarah, Jacob, Anna, Caleb, and their new little sister, Cassie, have already formed a family, and Caleb fears there will be nothing left to write about. But that is before Cassie discovers a mysterious old man in the barn and everything changes. Everyone is excited about the arrival of a new family member except for Jacob, who holds a bitter grudge. Only the special love of Caleb, and the gift he offers, can help to mend the pain of the past. Caleb′s Story continues the saga begun by the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain And Tall and its sequel, Skylark, spinning a tale of love, forgiveness, and the ties that bind a family together. Ages 8-10

Skylark
Skylark

Author: Patricia MacLachlan

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 0062285785

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The second book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal–winning Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. My mother, Sarah, doesn't love the prairie. She tries, but she can't help remembering what she knew first. Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turned the land dry and brown. Fires swept across the fields and coyotes came to the well in search of water. So Sarah took Anna and Caleb back east, where they would be safe. Papa stayed behind. He would not leave his land. Maine was beautiful, but Anna missed home, and Papa. And as the weeks went by, she began to wonder what would happen if the rains never came. Would she and Caleb and Sarah and Papa ever be a family again?

Sarah, Plain and Tall Literature Study
Sarah, Plain and Tall Literature Study

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Publisher: Do Reading

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780974705156

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Sarah, Plain and Tall literature study guide includes comprehension questions in two formats, discussion questions, context clues activities, vocabulary quizzes, classification, point of view, character webs, research, personal narrative writing, grid math, and following directions activities.

More Perfect Than the Moon
More Perfect Than the Moon

Author: Patricia MacLachlan

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2004-08

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780060275587

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Cassie spends her days watching Grandfather and Caleb in the barn, looking out at Papa working the fields, spying on her mother, Sarah, feeding the goslings. She's an observer, a writer, a storyteller. Everything is as it should be.

Sarah, Plain and Tall: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Sarah, Plain and Tall: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Author: Kristi Sturgeon

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-03-01

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1425889700

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Young readers will enjoy this heartwarming story following Sarah's journey with a small family to become the mother-figure they desperately need. Sarah, Plain and Tall: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and engaging lessons and activities to aid your students' explorations of rich, complex literature. Readers will learn such skills as analyzing and comprehending story elements in multiple ways, practicing close reading and text-based vocabulary, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions. Add rigor to your students' explorations of this Newbery Medal-winning novel.

Sarah, Plain & Tall (ENHANCED eBook)
Sarah, Plain & Tall (ENHANCED eBook)

Author: Janice K. Rugg-Davis

Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press

Published: 1994-09-01

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 1429108754

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This teaching unit helps introduce fine literature to students with a wide range of reading abilities. Each teaching unit promotes oral and written language proficiency through discussion questions and writing assignments that develop comprehension, application, synthesis, and evaluation skills. Reproducible pages contain classroom-tested activities that reinforce thinking skills while introducing the concept of analysis through class discussion. Extensive background information is provided for the teacher; students are presented with the elements of fiction, including setting, characterization, plot, point of view, and theme.