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Product Description MASTER THE POWER SKILLS - Skills Alert Story #6 Valuable language arts and math practice PLUS a mystery story about Wolfie, the dog who can read and write, all rolled into one! This book is brimming with challenging activities woven right into the plot of the story! Students have fun as they learn to: - Identify and apply core skills in a variety of contexts. - Apply and transfer core skills to solve problems in various real-life contexts. - Exercise higher-order thinking and develop problem-solving strategies. - Distinguish skills they've mastered from those they need to review and practice. Covers POWER SKILLS for Grades 4-6, but easily adaptable for middle-schoolers, and great for anyone looking for a new approach to review and practice. Ideal for home or classroom. STORY SYNOPSIS: Tina rescues a stray dog and takes him home with her. Then she discovers that Wolfie can write and do math! Could it be that he's not really a dog at all? And if he's not really a dog, who—or what—is he? LANGUAGE ARTS POWER SKILLS: Sentence structure, Spelling, Parts of a book, Making Inferences, Dictionary, Letter format, Fact and Opinion, Library skills, Capitalization, Subject-Verb agreement, Punctuation, Drawing conclusions, Reading maps MATH POWER SKILLS: Rounding/Estimating, Addition/Money, Geometric shapes, Symmetry, Congruence, Slides/Flips/Turns OTHER BOOKS IN THE ADVENTURES PLUS Series: Alien Alert, All That Jazz, Raise the Gigantic, Runaway Spaceship, Lost in Time, The Show Must Go On!, Case of the Missing Millie, Treasure Hunt, Score Booster Handbook for Reading and Language Arts, and Score Booster Practice Guides, Books One, Two and Three Review Adventures Plus: These diagnostic units offer high-interest, interactive, adventure-filled stories with skills-based activities woven throughout. -- Learning Magazine From the Publisher Skills Alert Stories are the anchor of ADVEN