This is a 13 page workbook to accompany the story "The Stranger" by Chris Van Allsburg. Skills covered include: author's purpose, punctuation and quotation marks, multiple meaning words/using a thesaurus, combining sentences, compound sentences, fact/opinion, structural pattern, synonyms/antonyms, making connections, reference materials, possessives, spelling/language conventions, writing skills, figurative language, vocabulary, identifying narrator, genre, contractions, suffixes, summarizing,