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Follow Pooh as he ventures out into the Hundred Acre Woods with his beloved companions: Eeyore, Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and of course, Christopher Robin. This engaging comprehension guide includes questions for each chapter and activities such as making Woozle prints, sewing your own bear, cooking yummy honey oat bars, and much more!

This guide is recommended for 2nd grade imagineers.

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Join young Hawkings on his expedition following a dead pirate’s map to find treasure! In this comprehension guide students can dig up directions for making a spyglass telescope and an origami parrot, learn nautical vocabulary and how to cook sea tack, and even research and write their own book of famous pirates. Biographies of pirates like Blackbeard are included.

This guide includes questions and answers for each chapter, too.

Suggested for students in the 5th grade.

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Introduce students to this classic novel as they complete activities and lessons that will encourage them to explore social issues within the story, and make connections to current and historical events. To Kill a Mockingbird: An Instructional Guide for Literature supports instruction of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, and provides students with fun and challenging activities that make studying the material interesting. The rigorous, cross-curricular lessons work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more. Written to support College and Career Readiness Standards, the activities and lessons work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature. Grades 9-12 From Teacher Created Materials Learn More

Keep students engaged as they dive into a close reading of the 1979 Newbery Medal winner, The Westing Game(#2387). This instructional guide for literature uses standards-based lessons and activities to add rigor and build students' comprehension of complex literature. Students will analyze story elements more critically, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, and determine meaning through text-dependent questions. Help students build their critical thinking and literacy skills and support the rich exploration of literature.

Grades 4-8

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This comprehension guide allows students to join the six Bastable children on their adventures as they look to restore their family fortune. Including recipes, projects, and questions for each chapter, this guide is an essential companion to Nesbit’s classic novel. Recommended for 3rd grade students. 69 pages Learn More

Using this comprehension guide, discover the magic of the secret garden along with Mary, Dickon, and Colin. A perfect pairing with the book, this guide includes thorough questions and answers, numerous writing projects, a research report on animals, directions for making your own terrarium, and much more. Learn More

Get ready to accompany Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis on their daily adventures in "The Three Chimneys," a house near the railway in Yorkshire. Using this comprehension guide, students will join in the adventures and mysteries of the children’s family with questions for each chapter, engaging activities, and even crafts. This guide is recommended for students in the 2ndgrade. 40 pages See also 8711, or 3702. Learn More

Encourage students to make connections in history concerning social classes and divisions in societies while becoming familiar with this well-known novel. Written to support instruction of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton(#1877), these appealing and rigorous cross-curricular lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature. This guide is the perfect tool to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions,and more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature with this essential language arts resource. Grades 9-12 Learn More

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: An Instructional Guide for Literature was written to support the classic children's story, and will engage students in a fun and interesting analysis of the text. The activities and lessons work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature. Analyzing story elements in multiple ways, close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will gain after interacting with the rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities in this resource. From Teacher Created Materials Grades 4-8 Learn More

The Discovering Literature Series is a teaching guide that was designed to help students develop an appreciation for literature, to improve reading comprehension, and to introduce students to the techniques of literary criticism that reflect our best understanding of how to make meaning from text. Each guide in the series features an award-winning novel and uses a focus on strategic reading in its introduction of a wide range of critical reading skills and literature elements, as well as opportunities for writing in a variety of genres.

Each literature teaching guide for the Hunger Games trilogy is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and includes strategic reading lessons that focus on both the individual volume and the series. There are over 50 separate strategies in the series for deeper understanding and meaning.

In addition to lessons that focus on the standard elements of literature (plot, characterization, setting and mood, theme, diction, style, and narration), students are provided with the Choice Analysis Tool to help them gain a deep understanding of motivation in a complex and terrorized society. They are also offered the opportunity to use historical documents (e.g., the Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence) as well as other works of literature and poetry to contextualize the trilogy. Each book also includes Writer’s Forums that guide students in writing while using the books in the series as a backdrop. A vocabulary feature in the final volume provides word study ideas for the entire series.

This 112-page teaching guide includes an answer key.

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Use this guide to familiarize students with the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, and encourage them to connect the story with actual events and issues from the 1920s. Students will enjoy analyzing this complex literary piece and revel in the life lessons they take away from it. The cross-curricular lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more. Written to support the Common Core, the challenging activities and lessons work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature. Grades 9-12 Teacher Created Materials Learn More

The Discovering Literature Series is designed to develop a student’s appreciation for good literature and to improve reading comprehension. At the Challenging Level, we focus on a variety of reading strategies that help students construct meaning from their experience with literature as well as make connections between their reading and the rest of their lives. The strategies reflect the demands of each literature selection.

In these study guides, we will focus on beginning a book, setting and mood, irony, plot structure, foreshadowing and flashback, characterization, forming hypotheses, evaluating a book, plot conflict, point of view, inferencing, rereading, theme, narration, and the genre of dystopias.

Each chapter analysis is organized into three basic elements: Journal and Discussion Topics, Chapter Vocabulary, and Chapter Summary.

Other features include Strategy Pages to increase students’ understanding of strategies to enhance their comprehension of literature; Testing at the end of each chapter grouping, and Writer’s Forum for students’ to write in a variety of genres relating to the text.

This 91-page teaching guide includes an answer key.

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The Giver: An Instructional Guide for Literature was created to support readers as they explore the Newbery Award-winning novel by Lois Lowry. Students will analyze the characters and elements of this classic story of a dystopia masquerading as a utopia. The challenging activities and lessons in this guide work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in complex literature. Students will practice close reading, improve text-based vocabulary, and determine meaning through text-dependent questions. This guide is the perfect resource to support this well-known story, and will add rigor to your students' exploration of rich, complex literature.

Grades 4-8

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The Dark Is Rising: An Instructional Guide for Literature introduces students to the Newbery Honor and Carnegie Medal Honor Book. This resource will aid students in comprehending this intriguing story, and engage them as they analyze Will's journey to defeat the dark. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities were written to support this story, and incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. The lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of rich and complex literature with this resource.

Grades 4-8

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This comprehension guide covers both The Call of the Wild and White Fang. It brings together comprehension questions, answers, and projects, including a wolf mask, diamante poems, animal tracking and more, all in one grand adventure. A great way to further enhance the reading of these two books.

64 pages

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: An Instructional Guide for Literature supports the instruction of this novel about two boys who befriend each other in a concentration camp. Students will be engaged in reading this heart-wrenching story as they learn to analyze the boys' friendship, their innocence, and the dangers they unknowingly face. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. These lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature with this essential resource! Learn More

Follow along as young Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn embark on various adventures together. Students will be eager to analyze this classic story by completing the fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature. This resource will make analyzing this literary piece fun and interesting for students. Exploring story elements in multiple ways, close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will gain after interacting with these rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities. Written to support this classic novel, the activities and lessons work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend complex literature. Grades 4-8 From Teacher Created Materials Learn More

Better than hiring a tour guide to the fictional town of St. Pertersburg, Missouri, this comprehension guide takes you chapter by chapter through Tom's shenanigans and includes projects that are much more fun than whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence.

Recommended for grade 4+

86 pages

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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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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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This classic story by Patricia MacLachlan is about one woman's journey to become the mother-figure for a family that desperately needs her. Sarah, Plain and Tall: An Instructional Guide for Literature will encourage readers to explore the humanity of these characters who long to be loved. Students will enjoy completing the fun, challenging lessons and activities in this guide. Analyzing and comprehending story elements in multiple ways, practicing close reading and text-based vocabulary, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are some of the skills students will gain as they analyze this Newbery Medal-winning story. Add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature by implementing this instructional guide for literature into your classroom. Grades K-3 From Teacher Created Materials See also #1592. Learn More

Maximize your students’ reading experience by providing activities that foster comprehension and reinforce understanding of literary elements. Activities for each section allow students to process portions of the novel through individual and collaborative exercises that encourage close reading. Suggestions for maintaining Interactive Novel Logs provide students with additional ways to reflect and connect personally with the novel. Students have the opportunity to synthesize their ideas through a variety of post-reading activities.

80 pages

6th - 8th Grades

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Maximize your students’ reading experience by providing activities that foster comprehension and reinforce understanding of literary elements. Activities for each section allow students to process portions of the novel through individual and collaborative exercises that encourage close reading. Suggestions for maintaining Interactive Novel Logs provide students with additional ways to reflect and connect personally with the novel. Students have the opportunity to synthesize their ideas through a variety of post-reading activities.

80 pages.

Grades 3-6

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Maximize your students’ reading experience by providing activities that foster comprehension and reinforce understanding of literary elements. Activities for each section allow students to process portions of the novel through individual and collaborative exercises that encourage close reading. Suggestions for maintaining Interactive Novel Logs provide students with additional ways to reflect and connect personally with the novel. Students have the opportunity to synthesize their ideas through a variety of post-reading activities.

80 pages.

4th - 6th Grades

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