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Summary: Useful, especially for new teachers
Review: The Teacher's Pet Publications LitPlans are a terrific resource, especially for starting teachers. They are, in themselves, a complete unit plan utilizing day by day lessons, vocabulary, tests and quizzes, puzzles, and enrichment activities. They are, by no means, a way for you to teach the book without having done your own research and planning. However, if you suddenly find, as I have in the past, that you are to teach a book you've not yet read, there are enough opening activities for you to get the students started while you read ahead of them. I highly recommend Mary B. Collins' series of units as a starting point, but you and the students will be much happier if you adapt them to your own needs rather than teach them 'by the book.' I have purchased a number of these: _Of Mice and Men_, _Fahrenheit 451_, _Animal Farm_ and _A Separate Peace_. They say they are graded for middle and high school, but as a high school teacher, the vocabulary and context exercises seem to me to be aimed at younger children, or those who are struggling readers. Again, I recommend adapting what is here to your own needs.
Rating:
Summary: Useful, especially for new teachers
Review: The Teacher's Pet Publications LitPlans are a terrific resource, especially for starting teachers. They are, in themselves, a complete unit plan utilizing day by day lessons, vocabulary, tests and quizzes, puzzles, and enrichment activities. They are, by no means, a way for you to teach the book without having done your own research and planning. However, if you suddenly find, as I have in the past, that you are to teach a book you've not yet read, there are enough opening activities for you to get the students started while you read ahead of them. I highly recommend Mary B. Collins' series of units as a starting point, but you and the students will be much happier if you adapt them to your own needs rather than teach them 'by the book.' I have purchased a number of these: _Of Mice and Men_, _Fahrenheit 451_, _Animal Farm_ and _A Separate Peace_. They say they are graded for middle and high school, but as a high school teacher, the vocabulary and context exercises seem to me to be aimed at younger children, or those who are struggling readers. Again, I recommend adapting what is here to your own needs.
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