A good book can touch our lives like a good friend. It can stimulate our imaginations, inform our minds, inspire our higher selves, and fill our time with magic! With a good hook, we are never lonely or bored. And a good book only gets better with time, because each reading brings us new meaning. Each new story is a treasure to cherish forever.

 

In Literature Units, we take great care to select books that will become treasured friends for life.

 

Teachers using this unit will find the following features to supplement their own valuable ideas.

 

* Sample Lesson Plans

 

* Pre-reading Activities

 

* A Biographical Sketch and Picture of the Author

 

* A Book Summary

 

* Vocabulary Lists and Suggested Vocabulary Activities

 

* Chapters grouped for study, with each section including

 

- quizzes

 

- hands-on projects

 

- co-operative learning activities

 

- cross-curriculum connections

 

- extensions INTO the reader's own life

 

* Post-reading Activities

 

* Book Report Ideas

 

* A Culminating Activity

 

* Three Different Options for Unit Tests

 

* Bibliography of Related Reading

 

* Answer Key

 

We are confident that this unit will be a valuable addition to your literature planning and that as you use our ideas, your students will learn to treasure the stories to which you introduce them.