The Pearl: Focus on Reading Guide (Digital Download)

The eBook is an electronic version of a Saddleback book that you can download to your computer and manipulate to fit your instructional needs. You will have the freedom to: cut and paste any portion of the text into your own document, to extract and post pages and activities on your class website, to e-mail parents and your students individual pages form the eBook, to project the eBook contents on a whiteboard, and more!

Contents Include: Teacher and student support materials, reproducible student activity sheets, an end-of-book test, and an answer key.

Each reading guide divides the novel into six manageable units. Focuses reading with guiding "Questions to Think About". Build vocabulary with pre-reading and during-reading activities.

Like his father & grandfather before him Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls form the Gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain & now provide Kino, Juana, & their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a seagull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort & of security...

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