L-I-T Guide <show description>
These excellent teaching aids integrate the reading of outstanding works of children’s literature with important reading-comprehension, speaking, writing, and listening skills. Each guide is approximately 40- to 50-pages.
L-I-T Guides™ contain learning experiences that provide opportunities for group dynamics as well as activities to challenge students’ abilities in critical and creative thinking.
Each L-I-T Guide™ includes:
• Story Summary
• About the Author
• Preparing to Read
• Vocabulary Skills
• Spotlight Literary Skills*
• Creative-Thinking Activities
• Glossary of Literary Terms
• Post-Reading Activities
• Cooperative-Learning Projects
• Chapter-by-Chapter Critical-Thinking Questions
*Four or five literary devices and skills are spotlighted in each guide. They include plot, setting, point of view, irony, tone, figures of speech, foreshadowing, symbolism, flashback, cause versus effect, fact versus opinion, main idea, theme, interpretation, and mood.