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Each volume in the\u00a0Ready Readers\u00a0<\/em>series provides complete discussion notes for a collection of classic stories, including questions from the Socratic List on all major structural and stylistic elements:\u00a0 Conflict, Plot, Characters, Setting, Theme, Context and Literary Devices. Each question is answered in full with references to the text.\u00a0Ready Readers\u00a0<\/em>also provides completed story charts and a short author biography for each title.<\/p>\n Want to see an example? \u00a0Click here to download our notes on\u00a0The Bronze Bow<\/em>\u00a0by Elizabeth George Speare.<\/a><\/p>\n Ready Readers<\/em>\u00a0is based on the\u00a0Teaching the Classics\u00a0<\/em>approach to reading, which involves working with stories at or below a student’s reading level. \u00a0While the volumes in this series are appropriate to the reading level of a specific age group, they can be applied to grades at their reading level and up.<\/p>\n A\u00a0<\/em>prepared discussion of five works of juvenile literature including classic titles such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s\u00a0The Hobbit\u00a0<\/em>and Robert Louis Stevenson’s\u00a0Treasure Island,\u00a0t<\/em>his edition of\u00a0Ready Readers<\/em>\u00a0is appropriate for the junior high level and above.<\/p>\n Ready Readers: Middle School Literature<\/em>\u00a0follows the pattern set by the first two volumes in the series, providing a full set of Socratic discussion questions for 5 classic junior-high level stories with comprehensive answers keyed to the text.\u00a0\u00a0Questions cover Conflict, Plot, Setting, Characters, Theme, Literary Devices, and Context.\u00a0\u00a0In addition, a completed Story Chart graphically outlines the major structural and thematic elements of each story.<\/p>\n This resource is appropriate for use with students in grades 6 and up, depending on their needs:<\/p>\n READING COMPREHENSION<\/strong><\/p>\n Ready Readers: Middle School Literature<\/em>\u00a0helps develop good reading comprehension in junior high level students.\u00a0\u00a0It encourages them to ponder well-designed questions about structure, style, context, and theme in every story they read.<\/p>\n LITERARY ANALYSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n The books discussed here were written for junior high and high school students.\u00a0 They provide excellent examples of the structural elements common to all stories.\u00a0\u00a0They 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ready\u00a0<\/em>Readers: Middle School Literature<\/em>\u00a0provides complete discussion notes for the following classic stories:<\/p>\n\n