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As a busy teacher, you don t have time to waste reinventing the wheel. You want to get down to the business of teaching! With Secondary Solutions professionally developed teacher-written Literature Guides, you can address the English/Language Arts content standards while you teach the required core literature! Secondary Solutions has provided you with the answer to your time management problems, while saving you hours of tedious and exhausting work. Our teaching guides will allow you to focus on the most important aspects of teaching (the personal, one-on-one, hands-on instruction you enjoy most) and the reason you became a teacher in the first place!

This Secondary Solutions teaching guide for The Miracle Worker contains 40 pages of student coursework, quizzes, tests, and teacher guides aligned with seventh and eighth grade English / Language Arts content standards. This Guide includes Biographies on William Gibson, Helen Keller, and Anne Sullivan; Anticipation/Reaction Pre-Reading Activity; Notes on the Elements of Drama; Vocabulary List and Review Crossword; Scene Guides for Each Act; Standards Focus Activities on Flashback, Sensory Details, Plot Development, Setting, Autobiographical Writing, and Character Development; Assessment Preparation Activities on Context Clues, Synonyms, and Analogies; Quizzes for Each Act; Final Test; Summary of the Play; Pre-Reading, Post-Reading, and Alternative Assessment Activities; Essay/Writing Ideas and Prompts; Project and Essay Rubrics; Complete Answer Key ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

very helpful
I am a middle school Special Ed. teacher and this past year I taught an 8th grade Literature class and we read The Miracle Worker in May. This resource was very helpful. I didn't have time to use as much of it as I'd wanted, but I did use a number of pages from it and it was very helpful. Everything is very practical and teaches literary terms and asks a lot of good questions and has good graphic organizers. It's not just some cutesy book with nice little ideas that don't apply to the standards we're required to teach. It addresses a lot of comprehension and literary/drama items. There are also a lot of good vocabulary words to teach too.

Literature Guide: The Miracle Worker
This literature guide is a great asset to teaching the novel The Miracle Worker to 9th grade students. It offers before reading activities and summaries for each act.The answer key at the back of the guide is a life saver.I highly recommend this guide if you are planning on teaching The Miracle Worker, the story of Helen Keller.

A New Teacher's Gem
I bought The Outsiders and was pleased, so I decided to try The Mircale Worker.As a new teacher, I am constantly searching for things to introduce to my students.I just finished my student teaching, and WISH I had these guides to make my life easier!I am starting school in a few weeks, and cannot wait to make a great impression on my colleagues and students with my lessons and planning done well in advance.This guide has everything a new teacher needs to feel confident that we are hitting the required content standards, getting our students ready for assessments, and helping them to enjoy the required literature along the way.Highly recommended!

This Really Does Have Everything!
I was a little hesitant to buy from this publisher, since I had not heard about them before.I have always ordered from Novel Units or Teacher Created Materials, but NO MORE!I cannot believe everything this guide has!I can just copy the worksheets and handouts and everything is done for me.This really makes entering the new school year a bit easier.I have an entire unit done!What a great feeling!I would absolutely buy from this company again and I am recommending it to my colleagues.

This thing is a Goldmine!
I am so excited about this book!I just bought this from their website, and received mine yesterday.It has lessons for teaching the content standards, which I think is really cool, because most of the books our kids have to read have no decent materials related to them.I have been trying to come up with ideas for teaching the content standards, but now I can do that while I teach them the required novels and plays!I think the price is reasonable, because this is not just a book full of questions and answers like most of the books I have found.It does have comprehension questions, but it also covers things like character development, analogies, theme, etc. so I don't have to make them up myself.School starts here soon, so I am looking forward to trying this out. ... Read more

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Litlinks: Activities for Connected Learning in Elementary Classrooms is designed as a supplemental text in children's literature, reading and language arts courses. The first chapters introduce using literature in the classroom. Subsequent chapters provide examples of activities that connect literature sections with different content areas in the elementary curriculum. The activities are all linked to the latest national standards. ... Read more

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best book for storyhour
This book has a wonderful selection of books to use for storyhour programs. Suggested musical CD's for each theme. lots of fun. I plan to use every story hour theme for my program semester. I enjoy Rob Reid's sense of humor and most important Kids do too! ... Read more

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The purpose of this book is to give media specialists, teachers and/or teacher helpers and parents a guide to using beginning chapter books to encourage first and second graders to read independently. The book contains in-depth lesson plans for 35 early chapter books. Each lesson contains bibliographic information plus setting, characters, plot, solution, and book summary. Activities for the media specialist to provide schema, prediction, fluency, and information literacy skill instruction is provided as well. Teacher activities included address phonics, phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and the comprehension strategies of recall, inference, and synthesis. Each book section also features a parent take-home page of extension/enrichment ideas.

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Pre-Planned Lesson Plans for the Beginning Readers
This book is a set of lesson plans that are tied to forth or so common books aimed at the beginning reader. For each book the author presents activities for the:
library media specialist: Schema, Discussion Areas, Discussion about the physical book, i.e. what's contained on the title page;
the teachers: Phonics, Comprehension, Recall, some writing activities which are the beginning of book reviews later in school;
finally a parents page where the teacher can send home a review of what they have done with some suggestions as to how the parents might help their children continue the study at home.

I have not checked all the books discussed in this one, but all the ones that I did were available at Amazon.com. This includes:

And I Mean It, Stanley
Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery
Aunt Eater's Mystery Vacation
Biscuit Goes to School
Danny and the Dinosaur
Oliver
Scruffy.

In summary, this book is a professional look at using commonly available introductory books to get the maximum amount of benefit out of them. ... Read more