{"id":9283,"date":"2015-03-30T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.allaboutlearningpress.com\/?p=9283"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T23:23:29","slug":"the-messy-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.allaboutlearningpress.com\/the-messy-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind the Story \u2013 \u201cThe Messy Room\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\"The\r\n\r\n

Do you think there is a gene for messiness? If so, I think my son had it when he was younger. From the time he was a preschooler, he was always inventing and deconstructing and building things.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He wanted to see how things worked and what was inside.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He could work a screwdriver long before he could write on paper.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

With his head full of curls, he was a miniature mad scientist, always working on a dozen projects in his bedroom, oblivious to the clutter around him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Years later, that adorable mad scientist became the inspiration for \u201cThe Messy Room,\u201d an All About Reading<\/cite><\/a> Level 3 decodable story.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

The Messy Room<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

The main character in the story builds a contraption he calls The Tube Squeezer<\/span> that is designed to squeeze toothpaste onto a toothbrush. But before he can make it work, he needs to find a key component, a marble that is missing somewhere <\/span>in his messy bedroom. For the reader\u2019s enjoyment, the marble is hidden in many of the illustrations, but the main character doesn\u2019t find it until the very end of the story (and just in time to enter his invention in the state fair)!<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Read \u201cThe Messy Room\u201d Here!<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\""The<\/a>\r\n\r\n

In addition to being a really fun story, \u201cThe Messy Room\u201d was designed to give students practice with prefixes. When you read the story, you'll see that it includes interesting phrases such as:<\/p>\r\n\r\n