Best-selling chapters. Introductory level. - Lincolnwood, Ill. : Jamestown, c1998. - vii, 301 p. : ill ; 23 cm.

"Chapters from 8 books for young people with lessons for teaching the basic elements of literature.". "Levels E-F"--Cover p. [4].

Unit 1. The great Gilly Hopkins / by Katherine Paterson -- Character -- Unit 2. Hatchet / by GaryPaulsen -- Setting -- Unit 3. The witch of Blackbird Pond / by Elizabeth George Speare -- Conflict -- Ghosts I have been/ by Richard Peck -- The narrator -- Unit 5. Shane / by JackSchaefer -- Theme -- Unit 6. I, Juan de Pareja / by Elizabeth Borton de TreviƱo -- Use of language -- Unit 7. Message to Hadrian / by Geoffrey Trease -- Historical fiction -- Unit 8. A wrinkle in time / by Madeleine L'Engle.

Contains teaching units designed to help introductory level students improve their reading, comprehension, and writing skills, featuring selected chapters from eight contemporary young adult novels, each with an illustration, discussion questions, introduction to major literary concepts, review, and writing exercise.

Professional Follett Library Resources.

0890618453 (pbk.) 0890618909 (trade) 9780890618455 (pbk.) 9780890618905 (trade)


Fiction--Technique--Study and teaching (Elementary)
Reading (Elementary)
Fiction--Technique--Study and teaching.
Reading.

PN3355 / .B472 1998

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