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Calvin Can't Fly read by Jonathan Pryce

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© Storyline Online/SAG-AFTRA Foundation

Grade Level Grades 2-4
Resource Type Activity
Attributes
Standards Alignment
Common Core State Standards

About This Lesson

Calvin is one unusual starling! While his siblings and cousins learn to fly, this rare bird lets his imagination soar while reading about pirates, dinosaurs, and other fascinating things. The other birds call him "geeky beaky," but Calvin just ruffles his feathers and buries his beak in a book. Yet, when it comes time to migrate, poor Calvin suddenly realizes he can't fly! His sisters, brothers, and cousins carry him into the air. But on their way south, the winds blow hard, the trees bend, and the air starts to smell strange. It's a hurricane, and only Calvin can save the day—because he has read all about it!

Storyline Online's Calvin Can't Fly is read by Jonathan Pryce, written by Jennifer Berne and illustrated by Keith Bendis.

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CalvinCantFly-TeacherActivityGuide.pdf

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September 10, 2025
1.03 MB
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'Calvin Can't Fly' read by Jonathan Pryce
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Standards

Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.
Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Read and write multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Compare two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

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