Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers

Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers

 

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Author:

• Dav Pilkey 

Genre:

• Graphic Novel, Comedy, Sci-Fiction

Grade level appropriateness:

• 5th grade and up

Theme:

• Friendship, anti-bullying, helping others

Synopsis or Review:

• I greatly enjoyed the book. I thought it is a fun way to teach kids about standing up for yourself, developing friendships, and being more creative in your writing. I would recommend this book.

Noteworthy features or issues with the text:

• I though a noteworthy feature of the book was the changes in the story plot at different parts in the story that always had a way of keeping the reader guessing.

Teaching ideas:

• Have students create their own graphic novels
• Use the What If strategy and have students change the ending to this book as well as other scenes from the book in a similar way to how the book itself does

Curriculum tie-ins and/ or related activities:

• Helps students with social skills such as developing friendships
• Helps students to learn ways to be creative

Read aloud suitability:

• Definitely can be read aloud to kids with the use of an Elmo to bring the pictures from the book up on the screen for the kids

Connections to other texts or content areas:

• This book connects to the other novels in the series
• It can be used to help students develop social skills as well as help students to be more creative in the writing skills