Reading & Literature

The Outsiders Literature Unit from Teacher Created Resources. Each book in this series is a guide for using a well-known piece of literature. Included are sample plans, author information, vocabulary-building ideas, and cross-curricular activities. At the intermediate and Challenging levels, sectional activities and quizzes, unit tests, and ideas for culminating and extending the novel are also included. 48 pages. Learn More

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This new 48-page guide contains answers to the exercise questions as well as four sample student responses to the stories. The author has rated the responses and has included the criteria she used to judge the student work. Learn More

Claims to Fame 1 contains 12 biographies of people from a variety of careers. The following biographies are included: • Sibbell Ludington • Walter Mosley • Rosa Bonheur • Susan Baer • Fiorello La Guardia • Jessie Tarbox Beals • Roger Tory Peterson • Bessie Coleman • Amanda Clement • Ruben Blades • Martine Kempf • Yo-Yo Ma The brief stories, running from one-and-a-half to three pages as the series advances, are accompanied by black-and-white photos showing the person or his or her work. Three exercises—Thinking about What You Have Read, Working with Words, and Writing Skills—check comprehension, expand vocabulary, and offer writing opportunities. Skills Addressed • Prereading focus • Factual recall • Critical interpretation • Response to writing prompts • Comprehension strategies • Literal recall questions • Inferential questions • Synonyms and antonyms • Similes • Homophones • Affixes • Suffixes • Critical thinking • Responding to passages in writing • Vocabulary development • Test preparation • Writing development Grades 2-3 Learn More

This new 48-page guide contains answers to the exercise questions as well as four sample student responses to the stories. The author has rated the responses and has included the criteria she used to judge the student work. Learn More

Claims to Fame 2 contains 14 biographies of people from a variety of careers. The following biographies are included: • Jerry Yang • Elizabeth Cochrane • Dr. Susan Scott • Jose Marti • Patricia Jean Billings • Dr. Daniel Hale Williams • Katherine Switzer • Al Hirschfeld • Sarah Breedlove Walker • Sam Wanamaker • Dr. Sara Josephine Baker • Maya Lin • Jaime Laredo • Eliza Lucas Pickney The brief stories, running from one-and-a-half to three pages as the series advances, are accompanied by black-and-white photos showing the person or his or her work. Three exercises—Thinking about What You Have Read, Working with Words, and Writing Skills—check comprehension, expand vocabulary, and offer writing opportunities. Skills Addressed • Prereading focus • Factual recall • Critical interpretation • Response to writing prompts • Comprehension strategies • Literal recall questions • Inferential questions • Synonyms and antonyms • Similes • Homophones • Affixes • Suffixes • Critical thinking • Responding to passages in writing • Vocabulary development • Test preparation • Writing development Grades 3-4. Learn More

Write and illustrate these blank books and create your own best seller. 2 high-quality hardcover books measure 8.25" x 11" and 6.25" x 8.25". The smaller book includes a die-cut frame. Insert your photo and write an "all about me" book. Includes story starter ideas and an assortment of Faber-Castell colored pencils, clip art, alphabet and number stickers. Learn More

The newest addition to the Create Your Own Books series. Set includes 2 high-quality hardcover pop-up books 8.5" X 8.5" and 6.25" X 6.25", stickers, 8 markers, and pop-up designs. Just add drawings, photographs and your own imagination. Illustrated instructions include story starter ideas and step-by-step pop-up ideas. Create Your Own Pop-Up Books was announced as the 2009 Toy of the Year by the Toy Industry Association on February 15th, 2009. Learn More

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The Children's Homer, The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy by Padraic Colum. Paperback. Learn More

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The Monitor: The Iron Warship That Changed the World (All Aboard Reading, Station Stop 3) The U.S.S. Monitor was an entirely new type of warship when it launched in 1862. Dubbed "the forefather of the modern Navy," this ironclad ship changed how wars are fought at sea. But on New Year's Eve, 1862, it sank off the coast of North Carolina in a terrible storm. No one thought the Monitor could be raised, but after 140 years, parts of the ironclad have finally been brought to the surface. This book chronicles the Monitor's revolutionary design, exciting battle, and intriguing excavation. Illustrated by Larry Day. 48 pages. Ages 7 and up. Learn More

This shining new verse translation by Robert Fagles has been rightly hailed as a masterpiece. It captures, in swift rhythms and flawless utterance, the tone, the temper, the very life of Homer's antic world without once sounding antiquated. 560 pages. Paperback. Learn More

A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below". At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew, Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The "Screwtape Letters" is the most engaging account of temptation - and triumph over it - ever written. 209 pages. Learn More