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The Great Strike - Student Edition
In the full-color Student Edition, students read an engaging narrative of the major events of the strike. They meet the seasoned labor leaders who helped organize thousands of workers— many of them recent immigrants speaking a dozen different languages—into a unified force for change. Students also meet some of the teenagers who left school to take grueling factory jobs, earning a few dollars a week to keep food on their families’ tables. Photographs, maps, and graphs support the text on every page. Side-column notes and questions provide point-of-use support. For more information...
Publisher: Small Planet Communications, Inc.; 1st edition (2012)
Language: English
Paperback: 48 pages (ISBN: 978-1-931376-36-5)
Price: $12.00 each (Quantity 6 or more $9.00 each)
ebook (pdf format): 50 pages (ISBN: 978-1-931376-38-9)
Price: $6.95 each (For site-license information,
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The Great Strike - Teacher’s Guide
The Teacher’s Guide includes resources for introducing the student text, promoting understanding, and assessing and extending learning. It provides a correlation to Common Core Standards and NCSS Themes. Reproducible blackline masters allow students to delve into primary sources and to review key terms and ideas. For more information...
Publisher: Small Planet Communications, Inc.; 1st edition (2012)
Language: English
Paperback: 16 pages (ISBN: 978-1-931376-37-2)
Price: $6.00
ebook (pdf format): 16 pages (ISBN: 978-1-931376-39-6)
Price: $3.95
The Age of Imperialism Teacher’s Guide
The Teacher’s Guide includes resources for introducing the student text, promoting understanding, and assessing and extending learning. It provides a correlation to Common Core Standards and NCSS Themes. Reproducible blackline masters allow students to delve into primary sources and to review key terms and ideas. For more information...
Publisher: Small Planet Communications, Inc.; 1st edition (2015)
Language: English
ebook (pdf format): 26 pages (ISBN: 978-1-931376-44-0)
Price: $2.00
Book Club: A Literature-Based Curriculum
Book Club: A Literature-Based Curriculum distills years of classroom-centered research into a practical guide for implementing Book Club in your grade 3 through 6 classroom. The handbook shows you how to seamlessly integrate instruction in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Features include comprehensive background information, teaching tips, detailed lesson plans based on award-winning trade books, assessment rubrics, and reproducible blackline masters. For more information...
Publisher: Small Planet Communications, Inc.; 2nd edition (2002)
Language: English
Paperback: 296 pages (ISBN: 1-931376-07-7)
Price: $29.95
ebook: ISBN: 978-1-931376-42-6
Price: $15.00
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Book Club Plus! A Literacy Framework for the Primary Grades
Book Club Plus! A Literacy Framework for the Primary Grades builds on solid methodology and 10 years of classroom research. Book Club Plus! presents a framework for instruction that allows primary-grade teachers to achieve important goals. For more information...
Publisher: Small Planet Communications, Inc.; 1st edition (2004)
Language: English
Paperback: 343 pages (ISBN: 1-931376-35-2)
Price: $29.95
ebook: ISBN: 978-1-931376-41-9
Price: $15.00
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Book Club for Middle School
Book Club for Middle School is your indispensible guide to implementing Book Club in the middle-level classroom (grades 6 through 8). Adolescent learners have unique interests, needs, and strengths. Book Club for Middle School shows you how Book Club can address and make the best of these traits. Topics include current theories about literacy, balanced literacy curriculum, components of the Book Club program, developmental needs of adolescents, strategies for both proficient and struggling readers, authentic assessment, standards-based assessment, classroom management, scheduling options, team teaching, and grouping. For more information...
Publisher: Small Planet Communications, Inc.; 1st edition (2001)
Language: English
Paperback: 202 pages (ISBN: 0-9656211-2-X)
Price: $29.95
ebook: ISBN: 978-1-931376-43-3
Price: $15.00
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Book Club Student Reading Log
Book Club Reading Logs help students explore and organize ideas as they participate in Book Club. The logs help them respond to literature and prepare for discussions. They also prompt them to plan research, set goals, and assess their work.
The Book Club Reading Logs combine thirteen think sheets and two self-assessment pages with open-ended journal pages to enhance your students’ Book Club experience. Think sheets are carefully chosen to complement the Book Club methodology.
Each Reading Log contains 32 pages and features a handy inside pocket appropriately sized for handouts and student portfolios. The log books are sold in packages of ten. For more information...
Publisher: Small Planet Communications, Inc.
Language: English
Paperback: 32 pages (ISBN: 1-931376-16-6)
Price: $24.00 (Pack of 10)
Book Club Novel Guides
Book Club novel guides provide all the support you need to get your students reading and talking about great books. The books have been carefully selected as suitable for students’ book club discussions—each one has plenty of content to sustain meaningful conversations. Novel guides provide information for the teacher including book summaries, thematic links, and related readings. Each novel guide also places the teaching of the novel in the context of a larger thematic unit. Daily lesson plans include reading assignments, detailed lessons tied to the language arts curriculum, and journal-writing prompts for students. Blackline masters range from student goal setting and self-assessment to support for novel-related writing assignments. For more information...
The following Book Club Novel Guides are currently available:
Book Club Novel Guide
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Bridge to Terabithia. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-25-5
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 0-931376-24-7
Price: $9.95
Book Club Online Novel Guide
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
NEW! This guide shows you how to teach a Book Club unit online with theme-based activities centered on the novel Bud, Not Buddy. Whether you teach the entire extended unit or just the Book Club lessons, you'll have the instructional materials you need to guide students either remotely or in a hybrid schedule.
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 978-1-931376-45-7
Price: $17.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Bud, Not Buddy. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-15-8
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 1-931376-06-9
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on The Cay. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-21-2
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 1-931376-02-6
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Holes by Louis Sachar
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Holes. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-11-5
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 0-9656211-7-0
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on The House on Mango Street. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-34-4
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 1-931376-19-0
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-22-0
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 1-931376-01-8
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Island of the Blue Dolphins. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-17-4
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 1-9656211-8-9
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Maniac Magee. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-30-1
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 1-931376-31-X
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Missing May. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-08-5
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 0-9656211-3-8
Price: $9.95
Book Club Online Novel Guide
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
NEW! This guide shows you how to teach a Book Club unit online with theme-based activities centered on the novel Number the Stars. Whether you teach the entire extended unit or just the Book Club lessons, you'll have the instructional materials you need to guide students either remotely or in a hybrid schedule.
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 978-1-931376-47-1
Price: $17.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Number the Stars. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 1-931376-00-X
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Out of the Dust. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-33-6
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 1-931376-18-2
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-32-8
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 1-931376-03-4
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Shiloh. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 0-931376-05-0
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Sing Down the Moon. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-14-X
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 0-9656211-4-6
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Tangerine. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-23-9
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 1-931376-04-2
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on The View from Saturday. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-10-7
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 0-9656211-5-4
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on Walk Two Moons. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-29-8
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 0-931376-28-X
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-09-3
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 0-9656211-6-2
Price: $9.95
Book Club Novel Guide
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
This novel guide outlines a complete theme-based unit with Book Club lessons focusing on A Wrinkle in Time. While the Book Club lessons form an integral part of the unit as a whole, they can also stand alone if you choose not to teach the entire unit.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-931376-27-1
Price: $17.95
ebook (pdf format): ISBN: 1-931376-26-3
Price: $9.95
Book Club Video
Designed to complement and illustrate the teacher’s handbook, this 32-minute presentation helps you successfully implement and facilitate Book Club in your own classroom. Teachers and students who’ve participated in the program offer unique insights, and extensive classroom footage clearly models the many strategies and techniques discussed in the handbook. The Book Club video can also provide the basis for effective staff-development seminar discussions. For more information...
Book Club competed in the U.S. International Film and Video Festival in 1997 and was awarded the Certificate for Creative Excellence in the category of Teacher Education.
Publisher: Small Planet Communications, Inc. (1997)
Language: English
VHS: 32 min.
Please email planet@smplanet.com with inquiries on how to purchase the video.
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