What girl can resist topics suchs as rainbows best friends picnics and unicorns- This outstanding collection of original short stories articles interviews biographies advertisements and more is sure to capture – and hold – the interest of all your young female readers. The subject matter characters and graphics have been carefully chosen to relate to girls of this age group. Real world applications address students literacy development as they analyze a newspaper advertisement a recipe poetry and magazine articles. The before during and after reading exercises incorporate effective research-based reading comprehension stategies including: activating prior knowledge predicting visualizing questioning drawing inferences summarizing synthesizing monitoring and repairing comprehension and evaluation. Includes a teacher guide teacher and student rubrics read aloud observation form and answer key. 96 pages.