

The April Fools' Joke
The April Fools' Joke
The April Fools' Joke
The April Fools' Joke
The April Fools' Joke
The April Fools' Joke
The April Fools' Joke
Realistic (fiction), 878 words, Lexile 560L Level 3 Grades 2-3
Marisol is new to Park Elementary, and she is eager to make some friends. Her chance comes when she and classmate Spencer team up to read the school announcements on April Fools' Day. Marisol and Spencer announce that there are "new clock rules"-that there will now be 20 hours a day instead of 24. Almost everyone falls for their prank, and everyone thinks Marisol and Spencer are very funny when their prank is revealed.
Lesson Resources
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Lesson Skills
Comprehension Skills and Strategies- Make predictions
- Sequence events
- Story elements: Identify characters
- Story elements: Problem and solution
- Text-to-text connections
Grammar and Mechanics
- Quotation marks
- Verb tense
Word Work
- Book vocabulary
- Suffixes -ful, -less
Shared Writing and a Home Connection are integrated into one of the skills above.