Swindle Novel Unit

Swindle Novel Study Unit by Gordon Korman. This is a reading comprehension activity guide and answer key for Swindle by Gordon Korman. It contains 21 pages of activities (45 total pages including the answer key, assessments, and scoring rubrics).

The book Swindle is about a sixth grader named Griffin Bing who thinks he has found the answer to his family's financial problems when he discovers an extremely rare Babe Ruth baseball card in an abandoned house. However, when he tries to sell it to a local dealer named S. Wendell Palomino, (nicknamed Swindle) he is told it is a replica and is tricked out of it. In order to get the card back, Griffin must gather a group of local students with unique skills to break into Palomino's heavily guarded home to retrieve the card…

Included are comprehension questions for each chapter with an emphasis on reading strategies such as visualizing, summarizing, predicting, making connections, and many more. Also included is a list of key vocabulary words broken down by chapter. Grading rubrics are included for assessing your students' understanding of the key reading strategies, end of the novel extension activities, and for the comprehension guide itself.

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