This book is about two young children Anna and Caleb, who lost their mother very young, and who now live with their father. One day their dad puts an ad in the paper looking for a wife and mother for his children. A woman by the name of Sarah Wheaton of Maine, responds and soon comes to live with the family. The children are constantly worried that Sarah will leave them and go back home, but in the end the four of them find a way to become a happy family again.
After reading this book in my classroom, I would put the children into groups of four and have them select a portion of the story that they would like to work with. The group will choose some way to represent their section of the story by using the flip camera, which can either be a dramatic reading of the text, acting it out, etc. Somewhere in their video though, they must include why their portion is crucial to the overall plot of the story.
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