Creating character silhouettes is a creative way to conduct a close reading of character or figure from an assigned or selected fiction or nonfiction text. This activity can be used with any grade level, during or after reading any text, and reinforces the ideas of character and characterization while asking students to closely examine evidence from the text.
Check out some new books we recommend in the form of the Short Story Cycle.
Want to know the best way to stuff your vacation full of as many wonderful stories as possible? Spend your summer reading a few of the new short story collections I've picked out for you on this list. Each of these collections packs plenty of great…
Summer reading can be tricky. As parents, we have this idea that our children should arrive home from the last day of school enthusiastic and ready to tackle
The best of the last decade, as selected by Emily Russo and Josh Christie, of Portland’s Print: A Bookstore.
~post by Julie W. I don’t often beg, but please, please, read Benediction. Everyone should know Kent Haruf. The emotional power he packs into deceptively simple sentences left me crying into…
“How I Got My Agent” is a recurring feature on the Guide to Literary Agents Blog, with this installment featuring Beatriz Williams, author of OVERSEAS: A NOVEL. These columns are great ways for you to learn how to find a literary agent. Some tales are of long roads and many setbacks, while others are of good luck and quick signings.
Explore under the sea with your toddlers and preschoolers as a marine biologist and teachers shares her favourite ocean books to read together.
The season's best books, selected by your favourite independent bookseller
This money-saving bundle includes four seasonal Reading Comprehension Activities for Google Slides™. Some questions are fiction, some nonfiction. Skills include reading comprehension, background knowledge questions, fast facts, vocabulary, author's purpose. Good practice in close reading.These slide...
Good, complete, intact, solid and square, binding holding well with no loose pages, really nice pages, black mark on cover, No tape, no tears, no creases, no writing, no repairs or touch ups, no smoke or bad odors. Weighs 1 pound and 14 ounces, 8 1/2 X 5 3/4. Selected stories, forward, brief prefaces by Charles Poore. Ships by slow, sure, steady, and very economical Media Mail.
Our reading list of the best fiction books includes science fiction, YA, dystopian fiction, 20th century classics, detective novels, children's books that appeal to adults, and some of the greatest stories ever told. The Great Gatsby, Dracula, 1984... the list goes on and on.
