Sounder: L-I-T Guide

This excellent teaching aid integrate the reading of outstanding works of children’s literature with important reading-comprehension, speaking, writing, and listening skills. The 32-page L-I-T Guide provides learning experiences that provide opportunities for group dynamics as well as activities to challenge students’ abilities in critical and creative thinking. The following are included in Story Summary, About the Author, Vocabulary Skills, Chapter-by-Chapter Critical-Thinking Questions, Creative-Thinking Activities, Glossary of Literary Terms, and Post-Reading Activities. Four or five literary devices and skills are spotlighted in each guide. They include plot, setting, point of view, irony, tone, figures of speech, foreshadowing, symbolism, flashback, cause versus effect, fact versus opinion, main idea, theme, interpretation, and mood. Grades 4 and up