Books in the Great Works series

Excite your students with Hamilton: An American Musical, as they develop literacy skills. Students will learn how to study story elements, build vocabulary, and use higher-order thinking skills as they practice close reading and text-dependent questions.

Learn how Winn-Dixie encourages Opal to make friends by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons in this Spanish instructional guide for literature, created to support this award-winning children's favorite.

Fall in love with Ivan and his determination in this heartwarming story bursting with many different emotions. Second language learners will enjoy analyzing this complex literary piece and revel in the life lessons they take away from it.

Captivate readers with the inspiring story of a girl who is bullied by what she wears to school, and the lessons learned from her experience. This instructional guide includes engaging activities and lessons to build key comprehension and literacy skills.

Students will enjoy reading this story about an American Indian boy who tries to create his own identity. This instructional guide helps students analyze story elements, practice close reading, and respond to text-dependent questions.

Journey with Shirley Temple Wong as she shares her immigration story. Using the standards-based lessons in this instruction guide, students build key comprehension skills through analyzing story elements, close reading, text-dependent questions, and more.

Spark a love for reading from the first page to the last with this instructional guide for The Crossover. With lessons plans geared specifically for this 2015 Newbery Medal winner, this resource helps students analyze story elements more critically.

Motivate students to dive into this futuristic story and make connections to the past, the present, and the future. This instructional guide for literature is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this sensational story.

Use the engaging lessons and activities in this guide to help students comprehend the story of a Danish community that helped Jews escape the Nazis.

The Hunger Games: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides lesson plans and activities for this popular Young Adult fiction novel. This valuable resource guides teachers with ways to add rigor with complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the text with higher-order thinking skills, with lessons focused on story elements, vocabulary, and more. Close reading activities throughout the literature units encourages students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages to respond more critically. With various methods of assessing comprehension, this instructional guide offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build a greater understanding of this great literary work.

Why does Alexander have such a bad day? Students will learn to analyze Alexander's terrible day through the rigorous and engaging lessons and activities in this instructional guide for literature.

Keep students engaged from cover to cover as they dive into a close reading of this 1979 Newbery Medal-winning mystery novel. This instructional guide includes rigorous activities and lessons to build key comprehension and literacy skills.

Challenge students with engaging activities and lessons as they undertake a rich and deep exploration of this classic, world-renowned literary work. This resource helps students comprehend complex literature and analyze story elements more critically.

Use this instructional guide to help students analyze the story of how Melody overcame her disability and build their comprehension and literacy skills. The lessons allow students to practice close reading, respond to text-dependent questions, and more.

Introduce students to this award-winning story about hope and promise and encourage them to analyze the text by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature.

Children will love analyzing these fun books about a silly pigeon who tries to get away with too much! They will learn to analyze various story elements through fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature.

Would you give a mouse a cookie, or even a pig a pancake? This instructional guide for literature covers five different "If You Give " books. Students will enjoy completing the fun, challenging activities and lessons as they learn to analyze each story.

Analyze Are You My Mother in-depth with this instructional guide that includes engaging activities and lessons in Spanish to build key comprehension and literacy skills for second language learners, with instructions for teachers in English.

Analyze Last Stop on Market Street in-depth with this instructional guide that includes engaging activities and lessons in Spanish to build key comprehension and literacy skills for second language learners, with instructions for teachers in English.