Fiction Readers: Your Guide to Superheroes

Your Guide to Superheroes is a humorous fiction story about a team of superheroes ready to be hired and fix people’s problems. Some of the superheroes have abilities like super shoulders, large lungs, smarts, and a powerful nose! The story also includes descriptions of the superheroes’ claim to fame! The story is narrated with illustrations, illustrative text, labels, onomatopoeia, and contact information.

Your Guide to Superheroes is a simple narrative story designed to look like a guide for hiring superheroes. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the table of contents, illustrative text, labels, layout, and design. Opportunities arise to discuss the purpose and procedures for writing a brochure. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as singular/plural (hero/heroes). Focus on suffixes and base words (quickly) and abbreviations (Mr. Puff). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (Sir Smart’s), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Duke Digit), exclamation marks, question 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.