PLUS a 50-Page Interactive Jeopardy-type game in PowerPoint! The Courageous, The Sinister, and The Elephant: Crossword Puzzle Visualizing the Text-Illustrate Your AnswersĬrossword Puzzle: Across the Vocabulary, Chapters 1-16Īll Thai-ed Up! Exploring the Thai Language!Ĭomparing Tua and the Elephant and The One and Only Ivan Literary Devices: Tri-fold Figurative Language ActivityĬomprehension Check-ups in Groups of Chaptersĭig Deeper! Talk About It! Write About It! Making Connections: A Pre- and Post-Reading Chapter Questions The Kids Wings Guide written by Suzy Red and Abby Moore is delivered in both PowerPoint and PDF format for ease in projection and printing. In addition, a 50-page Jeopardy-type game challenges the class to compete in interactive fun.

The 49-page Kids Wings unit provides opportunity for discussion, drama, honing of reading strategies, writing, solving a crossword puzzle, research, and more. Tua and the Elephant will delight you with its colorful figurative language, its exciting plot, its interesting characterization, and authentic exotic setting where Thai food, language, culture, and elephant rescue. Tua follows at a safe distance to their camp, all the while wondering what she, a young girl, can possibly do to save this abused young elephant?Ĭan you believe it, she steals the elephant? Then, she realizes how difficult it is to hide an elephant, even this small elephant! Luckily, Auntie Orchid has some clever ideas up her theatrical sleeves! Will Tua and Pohn-Pohn reach the elephant sanctuary before the two sinister mahouts catch them? The poor elephant beckons for Tua to help as she is led away. Tua sees mahouts' surprise turn to anger as they drag the young elephant away, beating her mercilessly on the legs and yelling that she will not get fed tonight. Or is it? At least Tua thought so until the elephant takes the money and instead of giving it to her handlers, turns to give it to a poor woman who is begging in the street. The mahouts then give the tourists fruit to feed the elephant. The elephant, in turn, gives it to the mahouts. There, bungling two mahouts with a young elephant draw a crowd of the tourists who give money to the elephant. In the center of the city, Tua stops a fountain in a square. The stream becomes a river that carries her into an exciting adventure. Curious, she steps through the hole and is swept away a stream of people. One day, as Tua explores the market, she discovers a hole in wall. While her mother works day and night, Tua visits the bustling marketplace.

Everyone in Chiang Mai, Thailand, knows Tua, the 10-year-old 'peanut'.

Tua and the Elephant by R.P. Harris