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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. |
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Literature Units Each Lit 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. |
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Portals to Reading 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Novel Studies
An excellent teaching guide that blends both skill work and higher level thinking skills. Novel Studies 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. |
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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. |
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Literature In Teaching Guide L-I-T Guides integrate reading with important skill work. Each L-I-T Guide includes: story summary, about the author, preparing to read activities, and cooperative-learning projects. This guide provides a reproducible vocabulary activity page and a comprehension/discussion question page for each chapter or combination of chapters. The vocabulary activities are 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 for a short answer. Also included are: a glossary of literary terms, post-reading activities, and reproducible activities on literary skills such as: plot, setting, point of view, irony, symbolism, cause and effect, fact versus opinion, and main idea. 40-56 pages. |
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Literature Notes Just look at what’s packed into each Literature Note folder… A synopsis of the story, a note about the author, ideas for theme-related study, an art project, and language arts activities such as story webs and story charts. Also includes critical thinking activities for pre-reading, reading, and post-reading. There are writing, math, social studies, and science activities that integrate literature across the curriculum and a sample bulletin board with a matching reproducible pattern. 8 pages. |
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Reading Beyond the Basal emphasizes extension and enrichment activities across the curriculum. You get many ready-made questions to ask that will develop critical thinking, oral language, and listening skills. Ideas for writing activities, bulletin boards, art projects, learning center activities, getting to know the author, and cooking are also included. Excellent for hands-on learning. From 27-60 pages per book. |
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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. |
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Connect Books Connect literature with social studies, geography or science. A Connect book will take a piece of literature and focus on one of the above subject areas for a thorough examination of how the subject area and the story connect together. Connect Books have reproducible activity sheets and a Teacher’s Guide. From 20-38 pages per book. |
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Book Guides Each Book Guide includes: an author biography, background information, comprehensive yet concise plot summaries, thought-provoking discussion questions on a section-by-section basis, cross-curricular activities and reproducibles, key vocabulary words, explanations of literary elements, assessment and management tips, and more. 16 pages
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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. |
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LitPlans on CD LitPlans on CD are practical guides written by classroom teachers who know what it’s really like to teach a novel in the classroom. You can print the entire guide, or just the pages you need. LitPlans on CD 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, an advanced short answer unit test, 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 |
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