This unit emphasizes upper elementary reading skills including predicting, vocabulary development, and comprehension skills such as retelling, ordering events, cause and effect, summarizing, inference, and drawing conclusions.
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater is a classic of children's literature. First published in 1938, some of its references and languages can seem a little dated. Its plot, however, is timeless, and its penguin-friendly emphasis on the exploration and preservation of Antarctica lends it a modern day relevance.