Teacher's Guides

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Over 1,000 popular curriculum titles (both fiction and nonfiction) have corresponding Teacher's Guides containing all the information you need to create a lesson plan unique to your classroom. See the sections below for more information about Teacher's Guides, the popular new titles, all the titles, or our special offer.

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Each Teacher's Guide includes:

Text synopsis
Biographical sketch of the author
Timeline of the book's action or historical setting
"Critic's Corner" highlighting the critical perspective
General and specific objectives in teaching the text
"Across the Curriculum" section tying the text to study in other disciplines
Discussions of themes, motifs, settings, vocabulary, and literary terms
Bibliography of author's works
Bibliography of traditional and multi-media resources for further study and research

In addition, each Teacher's Guide provides you with:

Two (2) comprehension tests using multiple choice, brief answer, and essay questions
Student activity suggestions
Cross-curricular activity suggestions

Teacher's Guides Costs:

Standard format - $3.95 each ($4.70 Canada)
Enhanced format - $6.95 each ($8.26 Canada)

Example:

Click on the image to the right to view a sample spread from the Bad Boy Teacher's Guide.

Popular Titles

Al Capone Does My Shirts (Choldenko)	Alchemist (Coelho)
Always Running (Rodriguez)	American Plague (Murphy)
Band of Brothers (Ambrose)	Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Boyne)
Breaking Through (Jimenez)	Chinese Cinderalla: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter (Yen Mah)
City of Ember (DuPrau)	Code Talker (Bruchac)
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue (Julius)	Elsewhere (Zevin)
Feed (Anderson)	Fireboat (Kalman)
Flotsam (Wiesner)	Freedom Writers Diary (Gruwell)
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup (Creech)	Harvesting Hope (Krull)
Higher Power of Lucky (Patron)	Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Bartoletti Campbell)
In the Time of the Butterflies (Alvarez)	Life As We Knew It (Pfeffer)
Life of Pi (Mantel)	Locomotion (Woodson)
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Alexie)	Loser (Spinelli)
Lost Boy (Pelzer)	Other Side of the Sky (Ahmedi & Ansary)
Penny From Heaven (Holm)	Persepolis (Satrapi)
Phineas Gage (Fleischman)	Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
The Prince (Machiavelli)	Princess Academy (Hale)
Red Kayak (Cummings)	River Between Us (Peck)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, Penguin Ed.)	Romiette and Julio (Draper)
Ruby Holler (Creech)	Rules (Lord)
Sahara Special (Codell)	Show Way (Woodson)
Thunder Cake (Pollaco)	Ties That Bind, Ties That Break (Namioka)
Twilight (Meyer)	When I Was Puerto Rican (Santiago)
When My Name Was Keoko (Park)	When the Emperor Was Divine (Otsuka)
Witness (Hesse)

Special Offers

Below are two of our current special Teacher's Guide offers.

Special Teacher's Guide Offer #1:

You can receive a FREE Teacher's Guide with the purchase of a classroom set of 20 of the same title! Be sure to ask your local sales representative about this offer with your next order.

Special Teacher's Guide Offer #2:

Download a FREE copy of our Teacher's Guide for The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier by clicking on the image to the right.

If you do not have a program able to open PDF files, download one free from the link at the bottom of the page.

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