Literature guides

[Fertigjc]

Anyone have a company they love for this? Looking for second grade for next year.

[Trilliumlady]

I’m new here too but have heard (and only briefly looked at) the following.

Progeny Press

Memoria Press

Veritas Press

I have decided to use Center for Lit and their approach to discussing literature. Maybe someone else here will have more ideas!

[HomeAgain]

We love Moving Beyond The Page. 

[YodaGirl]

I used to buy Great Works Literature Guides, but now I just buy studies from teacherspayteachers.com.

[CAtoVA]

Blackbird and Company  http://blackbirdandcompany.com/

 

Novel Units

 

Novel Ties

 

Teacherspayteachers.com (LOTS of teacher made units for reasonable prices)

Edited March 14, 2018 by chiefcookandbottlewasher

[Lori D.]

2nd grade is quite young to be doing formal lit. studies, so another option is to not worry about it until middle school, and just enjoy reading some great books together, discussing very informally to keep alive the love of reading, and filling your shelves with great books for your student to enjoy solo. :)

 

(Just me, but I do think there can be a danger of turning the enjoyment of good books into "boring school work" by starting formal literature studies too young.)

 

If instead you mean expanding a book, or exploring the world of a book with a unit study, LitWits has some good "kits" (gr. 4-8). And Five in a Row, Heart of Dakota, and Moving Beyond the Page are year-long programs that expand books into unit studies for the young elementary grades.

 

Below are some formal lit. guides, mostly for middle/high school ages, but some go down into elementary grades. Enjoy your reading journeys together, whatever you decide on. :) Warmest regards, Lori D.

 

 

Lit. Guides (for individual works):

- Blackbird and Company (elementary/middle school)

- Garlic Press Discovering Literature: Challenger series (middle/high school)

- Glencoe Literature Library (FREE; middle/high school)

- Portals to Literature (middle/high school)

- Penguin Teacher's Guides (FREE; high school/college)

- Bibliomania (FREE high school/college)

- Pink Monkey / Sparknotes / Cliff's Notes (FREE high school/college levels)

 

Lit. Guides (for several works, or for poetry):

- Memoria Press (gr. 1-12)

- Lightning Literature (gr. 7-12), but also some elementary aged guides

- MCT Royal Fireworks literature trilogies

- Progeny Press: Introduction to Poetry: Forms and Elements (gr. 8-12)

- Classical Academic Press: Art of Poetry (gr. 6-12)

 

Online class option

- Brave Writer: Arrow (ages 11-13) or Boomerang (ages 13-18) -- a la carte/NOT a full semester or year

- Center for Lit online classes

 

[Starrinytes]

We plan on using MCT next year (for our 2nd grader) and will be using The Mud Trilogy.  With our other daughter, we didn't use any formal literature guides in 2nd grade- we just read a lot of quality literature and discussed in a very informal way (on the couch, cuddling, reading, etc).

 

I tend to agree with Lori D, about the danger of turning the enjoyment of good books into "boring school work" by starting formal studies too young. It definitely depends on the child though :)

[Carolinagirl1]

I've used Memoria Press, which I really like. I tried one by Veritas Press. It was good, but I was using it with one of my daughters who is resistant to reading and there were a couple of simple projects involved (I'm not a project type - except for in science), so we didn't finish it. 

 

In second grade, we used CLE reading, which worked well for us. We just added in classic literature as bedtime read alouds. I stopped CLE reading around 5th grade. I'm not sure why except that maybe I thought we should be studying more classic literature. We haven't been good about it, and I'm considering going back to CLE Reading and doing classics at bedtime like we used to.