The unique design of Literature & Thought provides the literature and teaching support you need to meet the challenges of the Common Core English Language Arts curriculum.
Close reading strategies
Writing to sources
Appropriate text complexity
Academic vocabulary support
Text dependent questions and tasks
Essential questions (whole book) and cluster questions (units) focus on developing specific critical thinking skills through careful reading,
textual analysis, discussion, and writing activities.
Outstanding literature and content-rich nonfiction and informational texts engage student's interest and focus attention on the critical thinking questions.
Selections provide the text complexity and academic vocabulary required by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
NEW! Professional learning—interactive online courses with experts from the Great Books Foundation in close reading of literary texts, strategic reading of informational texts, and more are included with each Teacher Package.
NEW! Interactive whiteboard lessons—explicit modeling and instruction of critical thinking and reading skills, writing rubrics, and much more.
NEW! Expanded Teacher Guides—informational text strategies, citing evidence to support analyses and claims, practice with academic vocabulary, specific support for CCSS in each selection (including detailed CCSS correlations), and multiple assessment options.
Great Books Discussion Guides for Teachers—specific questioning strategies developed by the Great Books Foundation supporting close text reading and discussion.