Score key included.

Follow Tom's schemes, friendships, fears, and dangerous adventures. Students explore humor and conscience, explain his changing motives, and trace the shift from cleverness that avoids responsibility to courage that helps others.

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: 59-page student workbook and matching 32-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: characterization, humor, exaggeration, moral choices, conflict and courage.