Ready Readers: Middle School Literature, Vol. 2
Ready Readers: Middle School Literature provides a full set of Socratic discussion questions for 5 classic junior-high level stories with comprehensive answers keyed to the text. Questions cover Conflict, Plot, Setting, Characters, Theme, Literary Devices, and Context. In addition, a completed Story Chart graphically outlines the major structural and thematic elements of each story.
This resource is appropriate for use with students in grades 6 and up, depending on their needs:
READING COMPREHENSION
Ready Readers: Middle School Literature helps develop good reading comprehension in junior high level students. It encourages them to ponder well-designed questions about structure, style, context, and theme in every story they read.
LITERARY ANALYSIS
The books discussed here were written for junior high and high school students. They provide excellent examples of the structural elements common to all stories. They are therefore useful even in discussions with older students, who read at a higher level, but may be new to the techniques of literary analysis.
Ready Readers: Middle School Literature provides complete discussion notes for the following classic stories:
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings