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At last, here are hundreds of literature teaching guides gathered together in one easy-to-find resource!
No more searching from catalog to catalog to find guides for the books you are using.
Just turn to the title you want, and there you will find everything that goes with that title pulled together for you. It’s so easy!
Following is a brief description of each type of literature teaching guide.
Puzzle PackA wealth of reading comprehension and vocabulary building activities at your fingertips on CD-ROM! You can choose activities that target comprehension of the story itself or on reinforcing the vocabulary used in the story, as all activities come for both skill sets. For example, you get four matching activities for comprehension that will ask about characters and situations in the story, and you get four matching activities that are pure vocabulary-building without reference to the action in the story. Activities include: matching, fill-in-the-blank, magic squares, word search, crossword puzzles, and juggle letters. Plus you get 32 individual bingo cards for comprehension and 32 for vocabulary, and a set of flash cards you can reproduce for each student. You get over 125 pages all neatly stored on a CD-ROM. All activities are reproducible.
Cover Craft books Cover Craft Books Like a classic novel, Cover Craft books last forever – that’s why we give you a lifetime satisfaction guarantee. We use a method that takes paperback books and turns them into durable, long lasting hardcover books at a fraction of the hardcover price. Cover Craft books have strong, flexible spines. Fold the book back time after time, the binding will not break. Advanced adhesives keep pages intact and thinner books are sewn for extra durability. Books lie flat – no need to constantly hold the book down, Cover Craft books hold their place during teaching and reading. Full-color, digital images and lamination make covers sparkle. Durable binder board guarantees the covers look like new – year after year. Covers do not scratch and can be wiped clean.
Mari Units The best literature teaching guides you will find. Mari Units are bursting with exciting classroom activities. You get three guide books for one price. One book for writing and critical thinking skills, one to extend literature across the curriculum, and one that focuses on basic skill work. Blackline reproducible, 96 pages total.
Literature Units Each Literature Unit includes ready-to-use lessons and great hands-on activities that let you combine your novel with language arts, social studies, science, math and art activities. You might get patterns for stick puppets so your class can produce a play, easy-to-do science experiments, patterns, recipes and games to play. You will find author information, vocabulary lists with fun vocabulary activities, chapter quizzes requiring short written answers, unit tests, and many ideas for culminating and extending the story. 48 pages per book.
Portals to Reading Portals guides use good literature to teach and build reading skills. This is a skills-oriented teaching guide with reproducible work sheets in skill areas such as word attack, finding the main idea, synonyms and antonyms, syllables, remembering details, determining fact or opinion, and alphabetizing. Also includes open-ended writing activities and vocabulary lists. From 24-67 pages per book.
Teacher Guide In each Teacher Guide you get graphic organizers like story maps, character attribute webs, and decision-making grids. Then, this guide takes you chapter by chapter with vocabulary words, discussion questions, and a what-do-you-predict-next question for each chapter. Also includes an assessment rubric. From 25-45 pages per book.
Novel-Ties Novel-Ties study guides provide you with the right questions to ask, the important issues to discuss, and organizational aids to help your students get the most out of each book they read. For the teacher, Novel-Ties contain: synopsis, background information, pre- and post-reading activities, and answer key. For the student, Novel-Ties contains: chapter-by-chapter questions, cloze activities, comprehension questions, cross-curricular activities, graphic organizers, and activities to improve literary skills, writing skills, and vocabulary. From 22-32 pages per book.
Lit Links An excellent teaching guide that blends both skill work and higher level thinking skills. Lit Links has chapter by chapter vocabulary words and discussion questions. Then you get reproducible work pages for each chapter with activities such as: locate ten plural nouns in the chapter, look in the chapter to find support for statements, finding synonyms or antonyms in the chapter, and recalling details from the chapter just read. In addition there are activities such as; sequencing events, creating compound words, syllabication, drawing conclusions, looking up words in the dictionary, alphabetizing, and classifying words. 64 pages.
LIFT Books Literature Is For Thinking or LIFT Books emphasize critical thinking and writing skills. Each book includes 18 reproducible worksheets, an 8-page teacher’s guide, and two tests. The worksheets have activities such as a reading response log, grids for detailing feelings or character attributes, and many very interesting open-ended writing activities. Discussion questions are included and tests have nine multiple-choice vocabulary questions and one short answer question. 32 pages per book.
Literature-In-Teaching Guide L-I-T Guides provide a reproducible vocabulary activity page and a comprehension/discussion question page for each chapter or combination of chapters. The vocabulary page features activities such as: using vocabulary words to complete sentences, matching words to definitions, looking up word definitions, and choosing the closest synonym. The questions page has four open-ended questions with a few lines each for a short answer. Also included are: author information, glossary of literary terms, and reproducible activities on literary skills such as: plot, setting, point of view, fact versus opinion, and main idea. 40-56 pages.
Student Pack
 Student Packet This guide has a strong vocabulary-building emphasis. You get a reproducible vocabulary worksheet for one or a couple of chapters together. These worksheets have activities such as: defining words, creating antonyms and synonyms for vocabulary words, creating a word web, and word games to play. There are chapter-by-chapter study questions, pre-reading and post reading activities, lots of graphic organizers, quizzes, and a final test with both multiple choice and essay questions. From 36-48 pages per book.
LEAP Pack With each Literature Enrichment Activities for Paperbacks, or LEAP Pack you get ten student activity booklets and a teacher’s guide. LEAP Packs enrich the reading experience with lively, creative activities your students can complete on their own or in small groups. Activities promote vocabulary development, creative writing skills, and cross-curricular studies. Each student activity booklet is 8 pages.
LitPlans on CD LitPlans on CD are practical guides written by classroom teachers. They are packed with practical and useful materials such as: unit objectives, short answer study questions, quizzes (multiple choice), vocabulary worksheets, vocabulary games and activities, 18-24 daily lessons, author information, 3 detailed writing assignments (inform, persuade, personal opinion), unit review games and activities, group and individual projects, 2 short answer unit tests, two multiple choice unit tests, crossword puzzles, word searches, extra worksheets, bulletin board ideas, ready-to-copy student materials, graphic organizers, and more! Most LitPlans on CD have well over 100 pages of materials. $19.95 for single use, or $49.00 for a site license. Mac/Win CD-ROM.
Connections to Literature
At last! Here is a literature guide with meaningful, standards based activities and assessment preparation all in one. You can still use the literature you love while preparing your students for assessments in reading and writing. Prepare them with exercises using multiple choice, short answer, or long answer responses, and narrative, expository and persuasive writing prompts. The format of this guide conforms with the standards and assessments used by most states. You will also find a list of standards such as; the student constructs meaning from a wide range of texts, or the student understands the common features of a variety of literary forms, and the benchmarks that fall under the standards.