Teacher Resource Digital Library
Grades 1–12
Unlimited building access for one year
- Get digital access to over 1,300 reproducible literature guides and tests for popular novels and nonfiction.
- Save hours of preparation time with the wide range of activities, projects, and assessments available.
All teachers—unlimited building access for one year!
Portals to Reading
Grades 1–8
Practice of essential reading skills through literature
- Reproducible activities focus on the main components of reading success—phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing skills.
- To make learning meaningful, students piratic and apply skills as they read popular children's literature.
- Choose which activities best meet your students' skill development to individualize instruction.
- The variety of skill lessons offer opportunity to monitor student progress.
- The lessons align with state standards and the skills covered in your reading program.
Portals Plus
Grades 3–8
Cross-curricular reading skills based on popular books
- Reproducible activities reinforce important standards-based skills and learning strategies in a cross-section of subject areas.
- The pick-and-choose format lets you select activities that best match the interests, skill levels, and learning styles of your students.
- Each resource includes approximately 15 activities in
- language arts
- critical thinking
- arts
- science
- math
- social studies
- study skills
- geography
Portals to Literature
Grades 6–12
Literary skills for middle and high school readers**
- 25 to 40 thought-provoking reproducible activities develop literary skills and concepts.
- Students learn to analyze, interpret, and respond to a novel with
- comprehension checks
- writing prompts
- vocabulary builders
- discussion suggestions
Masterprose & Contemporary Classics
Grades 6–12
Great resources to teach great literature—in one handy packet
- Guide students through an in-depth analysis of American, British, and world literature with valuable reproducibles.
- Contemporary Classics highlights 20th century literature, while Masterprose highlights literature written before 1900.
- Student materials include vocabulary study, character analysis, objective tests and an essay test, study questions, and more.
- Teacher materials include biographical information, stylistic analysis, a plot synopsis, enrichment projects, discussion questions, and more.
Alternative Assessment for Literature
Grades 3–12
Performace-based projects demonstrate learning
- Ready to use and easy to implement, over performance-based projects let students demonstrate their understanding of a contemporary or classic literature title. Students can write a ballad, define a dialect, draw a map, and more.
- The variety of activities appeals to different learning styles—linguistic, visual, kinesthetic, and more.
- Reproducible rubric charts allow students to become involved in the assessment.
- Additional teacher support includes
- book synopsis
- questions for before, during, and reading
- suggestions for developing your own standards and criteria
- suggestions for adapting projects to various learning styles and modalities
Latitudes
Grades 6–12
Enhance novel studies with contemporary and historical information
- Link literature to social studies with primary and secondary resources; historical information; and open-ended, student-centered activities.
- The resources offer literary insight through plot synopses, author biographies, critics' comments, and glossaries.
- Create meaningful source and historical context with resources about the period, including timelines, maps, essays, letters, and more.
- The open-ended, student-centered activities are suitable for individual or small-group learning and develop analytical, creative, critical, and evaluative thinking skills.
Literature Tests
Grades 4–12
Save valuable hours—we've created tests for the most frequently taught literature titles
- Choose from over 300 objective and essay tests for the most frequently taught literature titles.
- Objective tests measure literal comprehension of the plot, setting, and characters with true/false, multiple choice, and matching formats. Choose from 50- and 100-question formats.
- Essay tests include six to ten literal and interpretive questions to help students develop critical thinking strategies.
- Answer keys are provided.
