Students will explore the themes of fate in "The Necklace," "The Lottery Ticket," "The Lady or the Tiger?," "The Interlopers," and others.
These anthologies provide reluctant readers with collections of adapted classic tales from around the world and time-honored short works by some of literature's most respected authors. Each anthology includes three to ten tales, legends, myths, or short stories and an original play.
BENEFITS
- Short selections, carefully chosen vocabulary, and appealing visuals help struggling readers comprehend and enjoy the content.
- Stories from famous authors build cultural literacy.
- A play in each anthology develops fluency and reinforces the theme.
TEACHER ToolKit CDs
All the resources and reproducibles you need to teach standards-based comprehension and vocabulary skills for each individual book—skill practice, strategy practice and instruction, and formative and summative assessment.
- standards-based skills alignment
- 30 reproducible activities
- objective tests to help you assess vocabulary and literal and inferential comprehension
- before-, during-, and after-reading strategies
- cross-curricular activities
- inquiry strategies
- strategies for ESL learners
- take-home activities and parent letter
Cover-to-Cover books provide struggling readers the same reading opportunities afforded successful readers. Written and designed to be accessible to students reading at least two years below grade level. Perfect for use with struggling readers for guided reading groups, as companion novels for favorite classroom themes, as literature citcle titles, for content-area reading instruction, or for independent reading.
TEACHER ToolKit CDs
All the resources and reproducbiles you need to teach standards-based comprehension and vocabulary skills—skill practice, strategy practice and instruction, and formative and summative assessment.
- standards-based skills alignment
- 15 to 30 reproducible activites
- objective tests help you assess vocabulary and literal and inferential comprehension
- before-, during-, and after-reading strategies
- cross-curricular activities
- inquiry strategies
- strategies for ESL learners
- take-home activities and parent letter
Create reading success for struggling readers with over 300 fiction and nonfiction titles written and designed to be accessible to students reading at least two years below grade level. This high-interest/low-reading-level series spans all genres and topics, ensuring accessible, interesting titles and reading success to below-grade-level readers in grades two through nine.