✦RBLevel 3 · Fluent ReadersUS Grades 4–5Lexile 670LAR (ATOS) 3.9 · First published 2006
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of Rules to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Scholastic paperback, ISBN 9780439443838. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
💬 Communication and Belonging
Communication books and AAC, echolalia, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the social model of disability — the real world around Catherine, David and Jason.
SUPPORTING
🔬 Science All Around
How honeybees live, what decibels measure, why a pond has layers, how a guitar makes sound, why cheeks blush and why stars twinkle.
SUPPORTING
📖 How a Story Is Built
A first-person narrator, irony, foils, a story inside a story, and a circular ending that brings the book home.
