What is the difference between the Lesson Plan Book and Teachers Guide?
The Teacher’s Guide guides teachers through the chapters and lessons in the handbook in the order that they are presented. It points out what to emphasize in each chapter or lesson and provides more background. The Lesson Plan Book breaks the handbook into “class-period-size” chunks of 30 minutes, helping teachers see, for example, how to divide an 18-page lesson on the short story over one or two weeks. You do not need to juggle both books at the same time. Use the Teacher’s Guide if you are using the handbook as a resource. Use the Lesson Plan Book if you are using the handbook to teach a reading curriculum. The Lesson Plan Book lays out a complete reading curriculum for each year, and it shows ways to design a reading curriculum of your own. Consult, too, the Lesson Plan Library at the website (www.greatsource.com/rehand) for additional lesson plans. How can I adapt the Reader’s Handbook program to meet the individual needs of my students? To succeed as readers, students need to wor
