The Show Must Go On!

Valuable language arts and math practice PLUS an exciting story about a disastrous school play, all rolled into one! This book is brimming with challenging activities woven right into the plot of the story! Students actually have fun as they learn to:
- Identify and apply core skills in a variety of contexts.
- Apply and transfer core skills to solve problems in various real-life contexts.
- Exercise higher-order thinking and develop problem-solving strategies.
- Distinguish skills they've mastered from those they need to review and practice.

Covers POWER SKILLS for Grades 4-6, but easily adaptable for middle-schoolers, and great for anyone looking for a new approach to review and practice. Ideal for home or classroom.

STORY SYNOPSIS: One of the actors in the school play has lost his voice. A substitute is needed—fast! Enter Max Boyd, pizza delivery boy. "I can do it!" Max shouts as he steps onto the stage to perform the starring role in a play he's never even read.

LANGUAGE ARTS POWER SKILLS: Setting. Character, Plot, Conflict, Resolution, Making Inferences, Predicting outcomes, Sentence structure, Idioms/Jargon, Concise language

MATH POWER SKILLS: Measurement/Customary units, Multiply by one and two digits, Reading maps

OTHER BOOKS IN THE ADVENTURES PLUS Series: Alien Alert, All That Jazz, Raise the Gigantic, Runaway Spaceship, Lost in Time, That's Some Dog, Case of the Missing Millie, Treasure Hunt, Score Booster Handbook for Reading and Language Arts, and Score Booster Practice Guides, Books One, Two and Three