Case of the Missing Millie Author:Tamim Ansary MASTER THE POWER SKILLS - Skills Alert Story #8 Valuable language arts and math practice PLUS an exciting race against time to save a missing woman from a mysterious villain, 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 a... more »nd 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: Mark O'Polo has started his own business, finding missing people. Carolina Smith wants him to find her aunt, hard-charging, globetrotting business-woman, Millie O'Nare. What really happened to the missing Millie— and who is the sinister Nannoo? LANGUAGE ARTS POWER SKILLS: Skimming/Scanning, Main idea, Making inferences, Telephone directory, Sequence of events, Summarizing, Drawing conclusions MATH POWER SKILLS: Time order, Maps/Charts, Add/Subtract more than two digits, Divide by one digit divisors OTHER BOOKS IN THE ADVENTURES PLUS Series: Alien Alert, All That Jazz, Raise the Gigantic, Runaway Spaceship, Lost in Time, That's Some Dog, The Show Must Go On, Treasure Hunt, Score Booster Handbook for Reading and Language Arts, and Score Booster Practice Guides, Books One, Two and Three« less