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Patricia Maclachlan's Sarah Plain And Tall
I have used Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan many times in a guided reading group. It is the story if Sarah, who moves from Maine to the prairie when she answers the advertisement for a wife. She decides to try this out for a month and care for Anna and Caleb whose mother has dies. Sarah tells the family that they will recognize her when she arrives because she is "plain and tall." She brings with her a cat and gifts from the ocean. The story revolves around Caleb and Anna and their desire to make Sarah stay at her new home on the prairie. One of the skills I try to teach with the story is story elements. It is a great story to teach setting, characters, plot or problem, and solution or outcome. As the children read, they
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