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Novel
Units® Literature Guides
For
most titles, Novel Units offers two teaching components—a Teacher Guide
and a Student Packet. While the two guides are designed to work together
as a complete, comprehensive teaching unit, each can be used alone.
Click
on each question below to find further details about Novel Units®
literature guides:
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Novel Units®
Teacher Guide &
Student Packet
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Student Packet!
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| What
are Novel Units® Teacher Guides? |
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 Teacher
Guides provide lesson plans for specific pieces of
literature and include vocabulary words, supplementary activities,
writing prompts, and comprehension and discussion questions that
utilize higher-level thinking skills.
This
resource provides a plan for integrating the skills of reading,
writing, listening, speaking, and analyzing literature.
Background
material and management suggestions are also included.
(30+pp.,
$11.99 ea.) |
Contents
of Teacher Guide |
- Summary of the story
- Background on the author
- Prereading activities
- Vocabulary builders
- Chapter-by-chapter discussion
questions and answers
- Comprehension strategies
(cause-effect, story-mapping, character-development charting,
comparison and contrast)
- Graphic organizers
- Writing ideas
- Literary analysis
- Post-reading discussion/writing ideas
- Cross-curriculum extension activities
- Assessment strategies
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are Novel Units® Student Packets? |
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Student
Packets contain reproducible pages for student use,
including vocabulary lists and activities, study questions,
project and essay suggestions, comprehension activities, quizzes,
a final exam, and an answer key.
The
activities and questions in the Student Packet emphasize
higher-level thinking skills.
The
included graphic organizers make learning fun.
(44+pp.,
$12.99 ea.) |
Reproducible
Activities |
- Prereading activities
- Study questions
- Vocabulary activities
- Literary analysis
- Project and essay suggestions
- Critical and creative thinking
challenges
- Comprehension activities and quizzes
- Unit tests
- Answer key
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use Novel Units® guides? |
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- Greatest
selection of literature guides—with over 700 guides for
classic, award-winning, contemporary, and Spanish titles
- The
most content-based information and activities of all the
guides available
- Time-saving
activities by teachers, for teachers
- Engaging
lessons plans, organized by chapter
- Higher-ordered
reading, writing, and thinking activities
- Integrates
the latest reading strategies into a usable teacher's guide
- Easy
to use—everything you need to teach a book
- Teaches
and reinforces critical thinking skills
- Adapts
easily for use with small or large groups
- Provides
positive reading and writing experiences for students
- Accelerates
the learning gains for each student
- Promotes
an appreciation for literature
- Encourages
greater appreciation of characterization, plot, conflict,
sequence, theme, and figurative language
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