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The House on Mango Street

Grade 6 English Language Arts

ReadWorks provides this 6th grade "novel study" unit on Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street which has a Lexile score of 870 and Fountas and Pinnell guided reading level of W. This 19-day unit explores the following  concepts and skills: character, compare and contrast, genre, plot, point of view, and sequence. The book is not included in this lesson but can be reserved from the New York Public Library.

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