Welcome to Secondary Solutions! Literature Guides for High School and Middle School Novels

Welcome to Secondary Solutions!

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A Sampling of Available Literature Guides

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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. Finally, you can address the content standards while you teach the required core literature! Our professionally developed, teacher-written, reproducible Literature Guides place the emphasis on the content standards, while providing you with the activities and materials you need to help your students understand and evaluate the novels and other literature that you are required to teach. Through the creation of these Literature Guides, Secondary Solutions^® has provided you with the answer to your time management problems, saving you hours of tedious and exhausting work. No more researching, creating, writing, editing and printing your own educational materials. Everything you need has been done for you!

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Before the innovation of Secondary Solutions^®, some of the materials that were available offered a reproducible student workbook which required a separate set of teacher materials at additional cost. Other available units provided the teacher with student materials only, or even worse, required the purchase of an entire class set of materials. Regrettably, none of these solutions even attempted to address the content standards.

Secondary Solutions^® provides all the necessary worksheets and materials for complete coverage of the literature units of study, including author biographies, pre-reading activities, numerous and varied vocabulary and comprehension activities, study-guide questions, graphic organizers, literary analysis

and critical thinking activities, essay writing ideas, sample rubrics, extension activities, quizzes, unit tests, alternative assessment, online teacher assistance, and much, much more.

Each Guide is designed to address the unique learning styles and comprehension levels of every student in your classroom. All materials are written and presented at the grade level of the learner, and include extensive coverage of the content standards. As an added bonus, all teacher materials are included!

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