K-3 Curriculum Bundle

This video seminar will help you read and teach literature more effectively in no time. Teaching the Classics presents a skeleton key – a proven, repeatable method that unlocks the secrets of every story ever written. You'll learn how to identify the universal structural and stylistic elements of any story on the way to discovering its prevailing themes. Inspiring lectures and demonstrations by Adam Andrews model a Socratic teaching format that is both repeatable and powerful to produce thoughtful conversations at any grade level, K-12.

Looking for some guidance about which classic books to discuss with your K-12 students? CenterForLit's got you covered. Reading Roadmaps contains a complete list of classic books for study at every grade level. Each title is also annotated with brief identifications of its key structural elements for use with the Teaching the Classics method. 

Enrich your Socratic discussions with CenterForLit's crib notes. This Ready Readers volume contains teacher guides for the following titles:

• Brave Irene by William Steig

• Sam, Bangs and Moonshine by Evaline Ness

• All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan

• Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson

• Fishing in the Air by Sharon Creech

• Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! by Mem Fox

• Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen

• The Clown of God by Tomie DiPaola

• The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant

• Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox