Gil Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 (edited) Maybe I just don't know where to look, so I'm asking here. Is there a company that makes and sells study guides for tons of regular young-adult books? Who are they? This seems like a concept that should exist. Edited April 13, 2019 by Gil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flor Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Rainbow Resources has various ones. I’ve hear good reviews from the ones published by Garlic Press and Progeny Press (also available at homeschoolbuyerscoop.com). Veritas and Memoria Press also have them, but I am not familiar with them. Also do a google search for these primarily free ones Glencoe Literature Library, bibliomania, pinkmonkey, and Penguin lit guides. When reading a specific book, I’ve often google “book title literature guide” and on occasions have found some great ones. Hope some of these help 🙂. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gil Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 Sorry, I wasn't clear. I'm wondering if there are secular literature guides for regular modern young adult books not just for "classic" books It seems like this kind of website should exist already, but more often than not, when I search [TITLE] "Discussion Questions" or "Lit guide" then I get web articles or reddit... I've searched through TeachingBooks and TeachersPayTeachers and haven't found anything either. It may be that the site doesn't exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherry in OH Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Here are a few: Reading Group Guides Scholastic Discussion Guide for The Hunger Games Trilogy / Other Scholastic grades 9-12 discussion guides SparkNotes "book club" and the title of book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 (edited) A quick aside: a lot of lit. guides tend to be comprehension questions (fill-in-the-blank "What did Bill say to Ted?" type of questions), which were completely useless for our literary analysis / digging deeper needs. What exactly are you looking for out of a lit. guide: Vocabulary? Comprehension questions? Discussion/thinking questions? Extension activities? Author/times background info? Teaching info on literary elements or topics of literature? Writing assignments? Most guides stop at the first 2 elements I listed. Few guides have all of those elements. ______________________ In answer to your question: No, I don't know of a publisher or a website that specializes in guides for YA or contemporary works. For those types of works, I always have to do an online search, with a specific book title + "literature guide" or "study guide" or "discussion guide". I then wade through the various search results to see if there are any materials that filled my needs. Yes, it is time-consuming. And no, there isn't always something useful for every book I look for. But sometimes I hit a little-known jackpot, so it's worth taking the time to search. Also note: some publishers provide free lesson plans or discussion guides to go with esp. popular YA books, so that is also a route to check out. If you have a list of 8-10 books you are specifically looking for, I would be happy to help search for resources for you. (I don't have time to help search for resources on more than that many books. 😉 ) Free, Online, Secular ResourcesTeaching Books: Book Activity Guides and Lessons (contemporary K-12 titles; some YA titles -- very minimal helps for each bookBook Browse: YA books -- small handful of discussion questions for each of these titlesTeacher Vision (middle school/high school)Glencoe Literary Library (middle school/high school)Bibliomania (high school/college)Penguin Group (high school/college)Schmoop (high school/college)Sparknotes (high school/college)Cliff's Notes (high school/college)Pink Monkey (high school/college) For a Fee Secular Guides Blackbird and Company -- gr. 5-8 guides-- mix of older classics and contemporary YA works; gr. 9-12 guides -- only a handful of titles at each levelGarlic Press: Discovering Literature guides -- regular guides (gr. 5-8); challenger level guides (gr. 8-12); very meaty and worthwhile, but only a handful of titles -- YA titles include The Graveyard Book and the Hunger Games trilogy Questions for Discussion of Any Book:SWB's handout for Academic Excellenc: gr. 5-8 -- lit discussion questions under LA heading, 2/3rd down the page50 Questions to Help Students Think About What They Think (reflection & collaboration; self-reflection; reasoning; analysis; connections; literary questions; science & social questions)The 6 Tpes of Socratic QuestionsBloom's Taxonomy QuestionsTwenty Five Question Stems Framed Around Bloom's Taxonomy ______________________ Completely off-topic from your original question, but might Figuratively Speaking and the links to go-along works of lit. in the past thread "Figuratively Speaking paired with short stories" be of help in your lit. studies? All the BEST, Lori D. Edited April 13, 2019 by Lori D. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gil Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 Well, as usual @Lori D. has beaten me to the punchline 🙂. I was coming back to report that I'd searched for Blooms Taxonomy Literature Guides and found some things that I will probably be able to use to make something worth while. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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