Books published by publisher Prestwick House, Inc.

With Vocabulary for the College Bound, it has never been easier to raise student test scores, increase comprehension, and expand vocabulary. This highly structured, but simply organized program succeeds in raising verbal scores on standardized tests and expanding sight vocabulary year after year because it emphasizes the basics: demonstration, practice, study, and review. This time-tested, six-book program includes lessons on synonyms and antonyms, words in context, sentence completion, and analogies. There are many exercises on roots, prefixes, suffixes, and inferences. Recommended for grade 12. This is a student classroom edition. Tests and answer keys are available from the publisher but are only sold to teachers and schools.

Improve vocabulary and reading comprehension using your favorite literature. The varied activities in this unit give students the ability to closely examine new vocabulary in the actual context of the world's best books. Through a variety of activities, for use individually or in small groups, each unit familiarizes students with words that they will encounter again and again, enabling them to become better readers and encouraging them to use context and other clues to improve their vocabulary. Complete with activities using quotes from the book illustrating context, root exercises, a glossary of slang, proper nouns, and additional vocabulary, and a unit test. These reproducible books not only help sight vocabulary, but also teach the techniques needed to understand literature and maximize word attack skills.

With Vocabulary for the College Bound, it has never been easier to raise student test scores, increase comprehension, and expand vocabulary. This highly structured, but simply organized program succeeds in raising verbal scores on standardized tests and expanding sight vocabulary year after year because it emphasizes the basics: demonstration, practice, study, and review. This time-tested, six-book program includes lessons on synonyms and antonyms, words in context, sentence completion, and analogies. There are many exercises on roots, prefixes, suffixes, and inferences. Recommended for grade 7. This is a student classroom edition. Tests and answer keys are available from the publisher but are only sold to teachers and schools.

Edition includes:-biography-15 interesting author factsSet in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet’s five unmarried daughters lives after the rich and eligible Mr. Bingley and his friend, Mr. Darcy, moved into their neighborhood. Mrs. Bennet’s only aim is to find a good match for her daughters. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited. The story shows how Elizabeth deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency.In this new Vintage Ink Edition, we delve into the life of Jane Austen and discuss our top 15 facts you may not know about the illustrious author.

The adage says that there are two sides to every story, but as most contemporary literature teachers can attest, there are many sides to every story-or at least many ways of looking at a story. Prestwick House's Multiple Perspectives Lesson Guides provide the high school teacher with everything she needs to guide her students through the study of the titles she teaches from a variety of critical viewpoints. Every Multiple Perspectives Lesson Guide provides a general introduction to the work (plot summary, introductions to key characters, brief discussions of social and historical background); clear and concise explanations of three critical theories (including feminism, Marxism, Freudianism, new historicism, and formalism); and reading, writing, and discussion activities designed to help students probe the familiar text in new and deeper ways. Teachers who want to take their teaching of literature beyond the tired plot pyramid and want their students to experience the books they love more than reader-response alone will let them, will find Prestwick House Multiple Perspectives Lessons Guides to be an invigorating addition to their course syllabus.

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone EditionTM includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Sinclair’s characterizations and language. Chicago, 1904: The lure of good wages and a chance to live The American Dream lure thousands of unsuspecting immigrants to the big city, where they find—instead of wealth and freedom—only stifling poverty, pervasive corruption, infectious disease, and early death. Upton Sinclair’s masterpiece of muckraking fiction-mixed-with-fact led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, but not in time to save the struggling Lithuanian family whose members come to life in The Jungle. The daily dangers of the meatpacking industry, dishonest politicians, and greedy businessmen, who care only about profits, conspire to rob Jurgis, Marija, Ona, and the rest of their hope and dignity. One after another, they succumb to the horrors that Sinclair so vividly depicts.

Fullfill state-mandated objectives and national guidelines with Prestwick House Reproducible Activity Packs. Activities easily relate outside historical references, vital literary vocabulary, and detailed plot and themes analysis. The clear-cut directions, spirited interactions and valuable payoffs add up to classroom time well spent. Activities include: Role playing, Creating dramatization, Five modes of writing, Completing maps and charts, Creating collages, Drawing editorial cartoons, Staging sets and scenes, Responding to photographs and pictures, Conducting surveys, Creating scenarios, And more

Fullfill state-mandated objectives and national guidelines with Prestwick House Reproducible Activity Packs. Activities easily relate outside historical references, vital literary vocabulary, and detailed plot and themes analysis. Activities include: • Role playing • Creating dramatization • Five modes of writing • Completing maps and charts • Creating collages • Drawing editorial cartoons • Staging sets ans scenes • Responding to photographs and pictures • Conducting surveys • Creating scenarios • And more

The adage says that there are two sides to every story, but as most contemporary literature teachers can attest, there are many sides to every story-or at least many ways of looking at a story. Prestwick House's Multiple Perspectives Lesson Guides provide the high school teacher with everything she needs to guide her students through the study of the titles she teaches from a variety of critical viewpoints. Every Multiple Perspectives Lesson Guide provides a general introduction to the work (plot summary, introductions to key characters, brief discussions of social and historical background); clear and concise explanations of three critical theories (including feminism, Marxism, Freudianism, new historicism, and formalism); and reading, writing, and discussion activities designed to help students probe the familiar text in new and deeper ways. Teachers who want to take their teaching of literature beyond the tired plot pyramid and want their students to experience the books they love more than reader-response alone will let them, will find Prestwick House Multiple Perspectives Lessons Guides to be an invigorating addition to their course syllabus.

Fullfill state-mandated objectives and national guidelines with Prestwick House Reproducible Activity Packs. Activities easily relate outside historical references, vital literary vocabulary, and detailed plot and themes analysis. The clear-cut directions, spirited interactions and valuable payoffs add up to classroom time well spent. Activities include: Role playing, Creating dramatization, Five modes of writing, Completing maps and charts, Creating collages, Drawing editorial cartoons, Staging sets and scenes, Responding to photographs and pictures, Conducting surveys, Creating scenarios, And more The Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass Touchstone Classic is the perfect Companion for this product.

Use Bloom's Taxonomy to Help Students Independently Evaluate LiteratureInstead of teaching your students how to answer questions about a particular text, help them develop the skills to critically evaluate literature without relying on outside guidance. Using Bloom's learning domains, Levels of Understanding breaks down complex questions into smaller parts and outline the steps necessary for students to develop a sound evaluation of a text. Students will begin with the most basic and fundamental skill, comprehension, move on to reader response, analysis, and synthesis, and gradually build to the highest skill, evaluation. Not only will these guides help you prepare your students for standardized tests like the AP* Language and Literature exam, the SATs,* and the ACTs, but they will also give students the self-assurance to develop and articulate a personal assessment of the text - a skill that will be advantageous in college and beyond.*Note from Publisher: SAT and AP are registered trademarks of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse this product.

Use Bloom's Taxonomy to Help Students Independently Evaluate LiteratureInstead of teaching your students how to answer questions about a particular text, help them develop the skills to critically evaluate literature without relying on outside guidance. Using Bloom's learning domains, Levels of Understanding breaks down complex questions into smaller parts and outline the steps necessary for students to develop a sound evaluation of a text. Students will begin with the most basic and fundamental skill, comprehension, move on to reader response, analysis, and synthesis, and gradually build to the highest skill, evaluation. Not only will these guides help you prepare your students for standardized tests like the AP* Language and Literature exam, the SATs,* and the ACTs, but they will also give students the self-assurance to develop and articulate a personal assessment of the text - a skill that will be advantageous in college and beyond.*Note from Publisher: SAT and AP are registered trademarks of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse this product.