Literature

There's a big mystery brewing among the animals of the Green Forest — and it's all because of a strange little creature with no head, legs, or tail that came rolling down a hill and gave Peter Cottontail the fright of his life. What could it be?

Young readers and listeners will love finding out about this and other interesting goings-on in the Forest as they learn how Prickly Porky made friends, what made Old Granny Fox lose her dignity, why Old Man Coyote lost his appetite, and more.

Written by master storyteller Thornton W. Burgess, this classic combines all the fun of a good story with gentle lessons about wildlife, the environment, and human virtues. It is reset here in large, easy-to-read type, enhanced by six full-page Harrison Cady illustrations that perfectly capture the mood of this charming tale.

Reprint of the Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1916 edition.

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One day, Peter Rabbit happens upon a surprise visitor to the Smiling Pool. It's Mrs. Quack the Duck, who is dreadfully upset after having narrowly escaped some hunters and their terrible guns. Worst of all, she has lost Mr. Quack, her husband, and doesn't know whether he is alive or dead. Peter, Jerry Muskrat, and the other animals in the Green Forest vow to help Mrs. Quack find a safe place to live and to try and locate Mr. Quack. Sammy Jay and Blacky the Crow, two of the sharpest-eyed animals in the Green Forest, are enlisted to help and soon the search is under way.

As children learn about the misfortunes of Mrs. Quack and the problems faced by migrating ducks, they will develop new respect for wildlife and a deeper understanding of real animals and their struggle to survive. Best of all, the lessons are incorporated into a good story, told with the warmth and charm that have made Thornton W. Burgess stories favorites with children for generations. Completely reset in large, easy-to-read type, the text is enhanced by six full-page illustrations based on Harrison Cady's originals.

Reprint of the Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1917 edition.

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is, according to many critics and avid readers, the great American novel. It is full of interesting American characters and down-home good humor, it also hits Americans in one of their greatest and on-going sore spots: the fraught issue of racism. As Huck and Jim float down the Mississippi and encounter all manner of people and situations, and as Huck struggles mightily with his conscience concerning Jim, the novel strongly invites a moral and religious perspective. Paperback. Learn More

Determined to see the Great World beyond the familiar vistas of the Smiling Pool, Laughing Brook, Green Meadows, and Green Forest, Grandfather Frog leaps forth to tumble haplessly into the pitfalls of greed, boastfulness, and carelessness. In this time-honored classic, Thornton W. Burgess mixes exciting adventure and good-natured humor with gentle homily to spin a wholesome tale of animal characters that children have found irresistible for generations.

Woven into Grandfather Frog's adventures are the daring pranks of Jerry Muskrat, Little Joe Otter, and Billy Mink, the hunting exploits of Longlegs the Blue Heron and Whitetail the Marsh Hawk, and the brave deeds of Danny Meadow Mouse and Striped Chipmunk. Their interwoven stories, newly reset here in large, easy-to-read type, will delight children as they discover, one by one, the many good reasons why Grandfather Frog came to wish he had never, never thought of leaving the Smiling Pool to see the Great World.

Reprint of the Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1915 edition.

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Part of the Childhood of Famous Americans fictionalized biography series. One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies - easily read by children 8 and up - today's youngster is swept right into history. Paperback. ages 8-12. 192 pages. Learn More

Teaching the Classics, Second Edition [DVD Seminar & Workbook]

Our premier literature seminar for parents and teachers, Teaching the Classics will revolutionize the way you and your students read books.

By using short stories as the models and the Socratic approach as the method, the authors systematically prepare you to teach character, plot, theme, and other elements of fiction and literary analysis. You can quickly equip your children with literary study tools that can then be used easily on longer works. Skills gained through this program will allow you to study any piece of literature.

Includes a video seminar on 8 DVDs and a spiral-bound syllabus. Suitable for teaching all levels.

Although this is meant to be teacher training, older students will enjoy viewing it too.

Need extra workbooks? See Item # 6337

From Institute for Excellence in Writing.

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This teacher's guide will provide you a road map in choosing the best tales, myths, and fiction for your homeschooling children, all with an eye towards character development. We know that reading aloud is important for nurturing academic skills, but even more essential, the stories we choose to tell our children will help shape their moral imaginations. Lists of wonderful books and homeschooling curriculum for multiple levels are paired with discussion prompts designed to draw character lessons out of the stories. Each title has been picked for its literary value as well as the character traits exhibited by the heroes and heroines.

Additionally, lesson plans make it easy to incorporate these homeschooling books into your family reading time, while spurring discussions that will jump off the pages and impact real life. Bible verses are provided along with memorization cards to make it easy to incorporate these essential truths into your child's daily habits. Use this guide as a reference for trips to the library, to help add depth to family read-aloud time, as a character development curriculum, and more. This homeschooling teacher guide is not designed to be used in any standard amount of time, feel free to use at your own pace.

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Introduce your students to the most popular literary accomplishments of William Shakespeare. Easy-reading adaptations will ignite the interest of both reluctant and enthusiastic readers. Each title is arranged in 10 short chapters with key words defined and used in context. The integrity of the original plays have been retained but essentially converted into story format. Each chapter is followed by multiple-choice questions that require students to recall specific details, sequence events, draw inferences, develop new story names, and choose the main idea. 72-pages. Standards Mastered: • Reading and Listening Comprehension • Recalling Facts & Details, Main Idea • Analyzing Characters • Context Clues • Interpreting Text • Reading Skills • Vocabulary Development • Fluency, interest Grade 4 level through adult. Learn More

These stories include the great myths –

of Amen-Ra, who created all the creatures in the world;

of Isis, seaching the waters for her dead husband Osiris;

of the Bennu Bird and the Book of Thoth.

But there are also tales told for pleasure about magic, treasure and adventure – even the first ever Cinderella story.

| Middle Grade (10 and up)

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Discover Shakespeare’s best-loved plays

These tales are the perfect introduction to Shakespeare’s greatest plays.

Charles and Mary Lamb vividly bring to life the power of Hamlet and Othello, the fun of As You Like It and the drama of Pericles.

They never lose the feel of his beautiful language and humanity and convey all of his wit and wisdom.

These tales are classic literature in their own right.

Middle Grade (10 and up)

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"This delightful collection of stories paints vividly the many faces of Japan." Retold for intermediate readers by Helen and William McAlpine. Includes 16 stories, 150 pgs. Learn More

Meet a greedy spider, an evil shark, flying horses, and a cunning hare. All this and more in this wonderful collection of African folk stories. Retold by Kathleen Arnott. Includes 34 stories, 214 pgs. Learn More

Learning centers are a motivating way for students to practice important skills. The activities in Take It to Your Seat Literacy Centers reinforce literacy skills with full-color centers that contain directions, task cards, and record forms. 12 centers stored in bags helps students practice beginning reading skills such as color words, positional words, rhyming, word families, and initial & final consonants. 192 pages. From Evan-Moor. Learn More

Learning centers are a motivating way for students to practice important skills. The activities in Take It to Your Seat Literacy Centers reinforce literacy skills with full-color centers that contain directions, task cards, and record forms. 16 self-contained centers help students practice these language skills: creative writing, paragraph editing, root words, sentence types, analogies and idioms, writing poetry, compound sentences, and more. 192 pages. From Evan-Moor. Learn More

Learning centers are a motivating way for students to practice important skills. The activities in Take It to Your Seat Literacy Centers reinforce literacy skills with full-color centers that contain directions, task cards, and record forms. 16 file-folder centers provide practice for important language and reading skills such as analogies, prefixes/suffixes, main idea, supporting details, sentence combining, and parts of speech. 192 pages. From Evan-Moor. Learn More

Learning centers are a motivating way for students to practice important skills. The activities in Take It to Your Seat Literacy Centers reinforce literacy skills with full-color centers that contain directions, task cards, and record forms. 14 self-contained centers help students practice these language skills: expanding sentences, long vowel sounds, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, alphabetical order, singular and plural nouns, descriptive words, and more. 192 pages. From Evan-Moor. Learn More

Learning centers are a motivating way for students to practice important skills. The activities in Take It to Your Seat Literacy Centers reinforce literacy skills with full-color centers that contain directions, task cards, and record forms. 17 self-contained centers that students can pick up and take anywhere to use. The storage system is built in -- in a hanging pocket, a shoebox, or a folder. Step-by-step directions and full-color cutouts that lend real pizzazz. 192 pages. From Evan-Moor. Learn More

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A timeless story of adventure begins. One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons—a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, plus two dogs and a shipload of livestock. Inspired by Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, this heartwarming tale portrays a family’s struggle to create a new life on a strange and fantastic tropical island. There each boy must learn to utilize his own unique nature as their adventures lead to difficult challenges and amazing discoveries, including a puzzling message tied to an albatross’s leg. But it is in the ingenuity and authenticity of the family itself, and the natural wonders of this exotic land that have made The Swiss Family Robinson, first published at the beginning of the nineteenth century, one of the most enduring and imitated stories of shipwreck and survival. 338 pages. Learn More

Use this comprehension guide to follow an adventure set during the Great Awakening, discovering how godly boys can become godly men. The guide includes questions, activities, and projects that will help students understand the War for Independence and the spiritual revival that occurred just a few years earlier.

Probing the novel's ethically challenging dilemmas, this guide is recommended for students in 5th grade. 42 pages

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Part of the Childhood of Famous Americans fictionalized biography series. One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies - easily read by children 8 and up - today's youngster is swept right into history. Paperback. ages 8-12. 192 pages. Learn More

The classic story by E. B. White, author of the Newbery Honor Book Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan, about one small mouse on a very big adventure.

Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat.

Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure.

Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest.

Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life.

He finds adventure aplenty.

But will he find his friend?

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This comprehension guide places students in Stuart Little’s world, where they can participate in the adventure with insightful questions and answers for each chapter, fun crafts, and even projects where students can build their own mouse-sized vessels!

This guide is recommended for students in the 3rd grade.

51 pages

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The StoryTime Treasures Teacher Guide, Second Edition gives you all the answers to the questions, vocabulary, and activities, found in StoryTime Treasures, as well as essential and recommended phonetic activities for every lesson, so you have the tools you need to guide your student through this first grade literature program!

69 pages

Grade 1

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