Product Description: Tap into the power of picture books to help teach key literary elements! This complete toolkit includes:• 8 high-interest picture books, hand-picked by literature experts to facilitate a dynamic way of teaching of setting, point of view, plot, characterization, theme, foreshadowing, flashback, and figurative language,• 8 companion teaching guides, one for each picture book• 8 colorful posters, one for each literary element• Recommendations for meeting Common Core State Standards• The professional resource, Using Picture Books to Teach 8 Essential Literary Elements For use with Grades 4-8...read more

Provides lessons, models, rubrics, and activities to teach students to write effective essays.

Contains twenty reproducible materials for constructing models to use as graphic organizers of ideas for writing and includes instructions and student samples.

Collects activities, simulations, reading strategies, literature group management tips, response projects, and discussion prompts based on five survival theme novels. (view table of contents)

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