Teacher Resource Guides
Help create a love for multicultural literature and encourage children to develop their own voices, establish caring relationships, and believe in themselves. Flexible Teacher Resource Guides for award-winning, multicultural trade books provide maximum instructional value for many of the books in your school or classroom library. Teacher Resource Guides include
- comprehension and writing activities aligned with national open-ended assessments
- activities and discussions to stimulate social and emotional learning
- cooperative learning through partner, small-group, and whole-class activities
- writing prompts for expository, narrative, persuasive, descriptive, and literature response
- opportunities to foster oral language, listening, vocabulary development, and fluency
- short essay questions to monitor listening or reading skills
- cross-curricular connections
- bibliographies of related books and references for students and teachers
- ideas for research and community service projects