Score key included.

Follow Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as family hardships, ambitions, disagreements, and sacrifices help them grow. Students compare the sisters' motives and relationships and support interpretations of responsibility, generosity, and maturity with evidence.

This illustrated Starline educational adaptation includes vocabulary, reading questions, reviews, a Final Review, and a Final Test. Students read, respond, score, correct, and re-score, with parent or teacher support as needed.

Included: 71-page student workbook and matching 30-page score/test key. The key supplies answers and scoring guidance for the workbook and final assessment.

Suggested placement: Grade 5. Suggested pace: about 3 weeks, adjusted to the learner. Use this stand-alone title on its own or within the five-title Grade 5 Semester 1 sequence.

Literary skills: character development, dialogue, internal and external conflict, cause and effect, family and responsibility.