On any given day, teachers across the United States are frustrated and lost, attempting yet again to create materials and/or align the Common Core State Standards into their daily instruction, lessons, and assessments as they integrate literature and poetry into their curriculum.
Sound familiar? It doesn t have to.> Get an upper hand on effective ELA teaching with Simply Novel Literature Guides, available for grades 3-12. Simply Novel (formerly Secondary Solutions and Elementary Solutions) has created a comprehensive line of quality CCSS aligned Literature Guides to support every teacher seeking to engage all students in meaningful ELA instruction.
Simply Novel Literature Guides are carefully aligned to grade-specific CCSS ELA standards in the following strands:
Reading: Literature
Reading: Informational Texts
Writing
Speaking/Listening
Language
Specifically designed by teachers for teachers, fully reproducible, and superior quality, each Literature Guide addresses grade-specific standards, with practical, no prep, ready-to-use activities, lessons, assessments, and more. Even if you are not in a Common Core State, or are not at all interested in the idea of Common Core, you will find huge value in Simply Novel Guides, as lessons and assessments are based on time-tested best practices in teaching, and include the rigor and depth you would integrate in your teaching, if you had the time.
EVERY TEACHER, REGARDLESS OF EXPERIENCE/GRADE LEVEL will benefit from using this invaluable Literature Guide series.
No more pressure, and no more headache as you spend your own valuable time putting together a comprehensive unit that addresses the rigorous standards your students must master. Sit back. Enjoy life, enjoy your students, and enjoy the freedom of knowing Simply Novel has done all the work for you.
Kristen Bowers is a former English teacher and the founder and President of Secondary Solutions. She has written over 15 books, including Literature Guides for Of Mice and Men, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and more, as well as two essay writing Guides: Essay Apprentice and Essay Architect. In 2005, Mrs. Bowers became frustrated and tired of writing her own worksheets, quizzes, tests, and activities to teach her students the required literature and the content standards on which her students were being tested at the district and state levels. At the time, resources and tools that were available for purchase were not up to her high standards of teaching, so she decided to create these materials herself.
Mrs. Bowers set to work to create one of the most comprehensive and innovative Literature Guide sets on the market. Joined by a middle school teacher with 21 years of secondary school experience, Secondary Solutions began, and has since matured into a specialized team of intermediate and secondary teachers who have developed a set of Literature and Writing Guides unsurpassed by all others.
