Fiction Readers: Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a humorous fiction story about a new teacher that took his students on a trip to the center of the Earth. On the journey, students learned all about magma and the Earth’s core. They stopped for lunch in Hawaii and then headed back to school! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, and illustrative text.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the layout and design. Opportunities arise to discuss with students the features of Earth’s core.

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (spewed), adjectives (strange), positional words (center). Focus on suffixes and base words (glowing) as well as abbreviations (Mr.). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes within contractions (we’ll), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Interactive Learning Center), question marks, quotation marks, exclamation marks, and commas.

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.