Guides

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

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

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

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

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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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

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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