McCarthy, Tara

Recounts 24 fairy tales with accompanying teaching suggestions and activity sheets.

Contains four reproducible short stories that incorporate lessons in the literary elements of character; setting; symbols, similies, and metaphors; and plot; each with margin notes, suggested activities for before and after reading, and a selection of reproducible activity sheets.

Ten stories told in the Middle Ages are followed by a teaching section that are designed to help stress the literary aspects of the tale and the social setting. Follow-up activities are further-reading suggestions are provided.

Mini-lessons, strategies, and activities help children learn about expository writing.

Contains mini-lessons, strategies, and activities designed to help grade school students learn to write narratives.

Help students become better writers. Provides practical ideas, strategies, and how-to's for exploring writing style. Creative reproducibles, graphic organizers and more.

Practical ideas, strategies, and how-to's teach children how to improve their persuasive writing skills.

Presents teaching activities and reproducible pages on nine genres or subgenres of literature: poetry, biography, autobiography, reports of information, realistic fiction in a modern setting, historical fiction, folk literature, mystery, modern fantasy and science fiction.

Contains activities designed to teach students in grades four through eight about the elements of literature, covering character, setting, plot, point of view, dialogue, atmosphere and imagery, and theme.