The Ready Readers Series: Children’s Literature Package (Volume Two)

From the Publisher:

Ready Readers is based on the Teaching the Classics approach to reading, which involves working with stories at or below a student’s reading level.  While 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.

Many parents and teachers asked for a set of example lessons to help them apply the Teaching the Classics model in their classes.

Volume Two adds ten more picture books to our Ready Readers: Children’s Literature series! This package includes the titles reviewed in the guide.

Although the content is primarily useful as a tool for teaching K-3 students the basics of literary structure and style, it is also helpful for introducing older students to literary analysis at a more approachable level.

Reading Comprehension

Ready Readers helps develop good reading comprehension in the very youngest students.  It encourages them to ponder well-designed questions about structure, style, context, and theme in every story they read.

Literary Analysis 

Though the books discussed here were written for children, 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.

Titles in Volume Two:

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
Amos and Boris by William Steig
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Lentil by Robert McCloskey
Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco
I Have an Olive Tree by Eve Bunting
All Those Secrets of the World by Jane Yolen

Please note: All Those Secrets of the World by Jane Yolen is not included in our Package, as it is currently out of print.

Ready Readers Series: Children’s Literature Package (Volume One)
Ready Readers Series: Children’s Literature Package (Volume Two)