Series:

Great Works

7 total works

Cover of Last Stop on Market Street: An Instructional Guide for Literature
The Last Stop on Market Street: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides lesson plans and activities for this award-winning literary work. This valuable resource guides teachers with ways to add more rigor with complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the text with higher-order thinking skills, with lessons focused on story elements, vocabulary, and more. Close reading activities throughout the literature units encourage students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages to respond more critically about the text. With various methods of assessing comprehension, this instructional guide offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build a greater understanding of this great literary work.

Cover of Ultima parada de la calle Market (Last stop on Market Street): An Instructional Guide for Literature
This instructional guide for literature provides lesson plans and activities in Spanish for this award-winning literary work. Text-dependent questions help English language learners analyze the text with higher-order thinking skills, with lessons focused on story elements, vocabulary, and more. Close reading activities throughout the literature units encourage students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages to respond more critically about the text. With various methods of assessing comprehension, this instructional guide offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build a greater understanding of Last Stop on Market Street. This bilingual resource can be used at home or in the classroom.

Cover of The Hundred Dresses: An Instructional Guide for Literature
This standards-based instructional guide for literature will help support students as they read the novel The Hundred Dresses, an inspirational story of a Polish girl who is bullied by her classmates for wearing the same dress every day. Using the engaging activities and lessons, students will learn how to use close reading techniques, respond to text-dependent questions, analyze the text to determine meaning, make summaries, and more. This invaluable resource is key to supporting the rich exploration of literature in today's classrooms.

Cover of Eres tu mi mama? (Are You My Mother?): An Instructional Guide for Literature
This Spanish instructional guide for literature will add rigor to students' explorations of complex literature and familiarize young readers with this well-known story of a baby bird's search for his mother. Engaging cross-curricular activities will encourage English language learners to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. This bilingual resource can be used at home or in the classroom.

Cover of Los cien vestidos (The Hundred Dresses): An Instructional Guide for Literature
This standards-based instructional guide for literature will support second language learners as they read the novel The Hundred Dresses, an inspirational story of a Polish girl who is bullied by her classmates for wearing the same dress every day. Using the engaging Spanish activities and lessons, students will learn how to use close reading techniques, respond to text-dependent questions, analyze the text to determine meaning, make summaries, and more. This invaluable resource with instructions in English for teachers is crucial to the support of the rich exploration of literature in today's classrooms.

Cover of The Day the Crayons Quit: An Instructional Guide for Literature
The Day the Crayons Quit: An Instructional Guide for Literature encourages students to explore and study this quirky story through lessons that are fun and challenging. Students will enjoy analyzing the crayons' issues and complaints by completing the age-appropriate activities in this resource. With various methods for assessing comprehension, this invaluable classroom resource offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build an in-depth understanding of the text. Text-dependent questions, close reading and text-based vocabulary practice help students analyze the book. The fun activities require students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages for further analysis.

Cover of El unico e incomparable Ivan (The One and Only Ivan): An Instructional Guide for Literature
This standards-based instructional guide for literature will support second language learners as they read the novel The One and Only Ivan, a captivating story about a silverback gorilla and the friends he makes at his enclosure in a shopping mall. Using the engaging Spanish activities and lessons, students will learn how to use close reading techniques, respond to text-dependent questions, analyze the text to determine meaning, make summaries, and more. This invaluable resource with instructions in English for teachers is crucial to the support of the rich exploration of literature in today's classrooms.