The Trouble with English

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Reading A-Z Level
Grade	3
Fountas & Pinnell	O
Reading Recovery	34
DRA	34

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The Trouble with English
Personal Recount (fiction), 1,617 words, Level S (Grade 3)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy	Context clues
Comprehension	Analyze Character
Grammar and Mechanics	Adverbs and Adjectives
Word Work	Idioms

Book Summary

The Trouble with English is the story of a girl named Ting Yao who moves from China to the United States. The book is a first-person account of her experiences learning English at school. She has many difficulties with the unfamiliar idioms, pronunciations, and spellings of the English language. Ting Yao relates her frustrations with learning this new language but realizes that she will eventually master English.