Just for second grade: forty-three high-interest stories, paired with comprehension-building puzzles, brain teasers, and activities! PLUS—challenges that help develop vocabulary, understand cause and effect, and analyzing characters!
Just for fifth grade: twenty-two high-interest stories, paired with comprehension-building puzzles, facts, and activities! PLUS—challenges that help develop vocabulary, understand cause and effect, and distinguish between fact and opinion!
AFFECT / EFFECT AFFECT – is almost always a verb meaning “to influence” EFFECT – usually a noun, meaning “result”. Occasionally, effect is a verb meaning “to bring about” or “to cause”.........
When Dr. Frederick Nielson, a dentist with a taste for administering pain, turns up dead in his own chair, Seattle Homicide Detective J. P. Beaumont investigates the many suspects in the case and uncovers sordid allegations of cruelty, infidelity, violence, and sexual abuse.
Adult/High School–Four different people find themselves on the same roof on New Year's Eve, but they have one thing in common–they're all there to jump to their deaths. A scandal-plagued talk-show host, a single mom of a disabled young man, a troubled teen, and an aging American musician soon unite in a common cause, to find out why Jess (the teen) can't get her ex-boyfriend to return her calls. Down the stairs they go, and thoughts of suicide gradually subside.
