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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Based Literature and Writing Guides, designed for 6th grade through 8th grade. Click on a title or picture below to browse through the materials we have available for that title!
Secondary Solutions Literature Guides can be used in the high school English Language Arts classroom to facilitate instruction of the Common Core ELA State Standards. Help students in Grades 6-8 grasp important literary concepts, including vocabulary, grammar, as well as literary analysis skills such as analyzing theme, conflict, characterization, and more. Our Literature Guides are aligned with the Common Core State Standards, the NCTE/IRA National Standards and/or most individual state standards. You can be assured that the activities you are using in class are not only practical, applicable, but also purposeful, as each activity focuses on a specific skill taught through the text of the novel.
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Essay Apprentice Writing System
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Bridge to Terabithia
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Bud, Not Buddy
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The perfect precursor to the best-selling Essay Architect ™, our Essay Apprentice ™ Writing System helps students who are unable to write a five-paragraph essay or need a lot of extra help with the essentials of good writing. By building the basic foundations of writing through simple, yet practical activities, students learn the step-by-step process of creating writing they can be proud of. Designed for struggling writers, grades 7-12.
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching Bridge to Terabithia in grades 5-7.
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching Bud, Not Buddy in grades 5-7.
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Freak the Mighty
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The Giver
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Holes
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick. Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching Freak the Mighty for grades 6-8.
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for The Giver by Lois Lowry. Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching The Giver in grades 7-9.
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for Holes by Louis Sachar. Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching Holes in grades 6-8.
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The Hunger Games
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Maniac Magee
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The Miracle Worker
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching The Hunger Games in grades 7-9.
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching Maniac Magee in grades 6-8.
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Based teaching materials for The Miracle Worker by William Gibson. Designed for grades 5-7.
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My Brother Sam is Dead
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Night
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Number the Stars
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for My Brother Sam is Dead by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier. Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching My Brother Sam is Dead in grades 7-9.
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for Night by Elie Weisel. Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching Night in grades 8-10.
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching Number the Stars in grades 5-7.
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Odyssey
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The Outsiders
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for Homer's Odyssey. Complete Literature Guide, individual lesson plans, tests, and more for teaching Odyssey in grades 8-10.
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more COMING SOON.
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry in grades 7-9.
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Tuck Everlasting
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Practical Poetry Poetry Guide
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Complete Literature Guide as well as individual lesson plans, resources, activities, handouts, worksheets, quizzes, tests, study guide questions and more for teaching Tuck Everlasting in grades 5-7.
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Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned teaching materials for teaching the Common Core Text Exemplars for Poetry in Grades 6-8.
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Secondary Solutions specializes in Common Core English lesson plans, including complete Literature unit guides for novel study. These Common Core Standards English lessons include literature guides for teachers, featuring lesson plans on literature, novel study questions, novel study activity sheets, discussion questions for literature, teaching resources for reading comprehension, guided reading, study questions for novels, reading questions, quizzes, reading quizzes, worksheets, handouts, final tests, essay prompts, and more for teaching literature novel units in the English Language Arts middle school or middle school classroom. Our Novel Units include everything a middle school English teacher needs to teach a novel or a play in the middle school classroom. Lesson plans are standards-based, middle-quality, teacher-written, fully reproducible, and ready to go! Keywords: teacher guides for books, teaching English units, teaching guides , teaching guides for novels, teaching middle school, teaching middle school English, teaching literature, teaching middle school, teaching novel studies, teaching novel units, teaching novels, teaching novels in middle school, teaching units, young adult literature, young adult novels, teaching, teachers, literature, resources, novel unit, novel guide, literature unit, teaching resources for middle school
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