<p><em>"The experiences provided in these 37 lessons parallel the readings and tasks recommended by the Common Core State Standards. The main difference is that our lessons put student curiosity and engagement first."</em><br /> -Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy Steineke</p> <p>In this highly anticipated follow-up to <em></em>, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy Steineke share their powerful strategies for engaging students in challenging, meaningful reading of fiction and poetry using some of their favorite short, fresh texts-or, as they put it, "<em>full-strength adult literature </em>that gives us English majors a run for our interpretive money- but is still intriguing enough to keep teen readers digging and thinking." Use the 37 innovative, step-by-step, common-core-correlated lessons with the reproducible texts provided, with selections from your literature textbook, or with your own best-loved texts to teach close reading skills and deep comprehension strategies. Give students opportunities to read and synthesize across texts with the 8 thematic text set lessons provided, or use the model unit outlines for using the lessons with <em>The Giver, To Kill a Mockingbird, </em>and <em>The Great Gatsby</em> as springboards for planning your own novel studies.<br /> <br /> <strong>Better Together! </strong><br /> Used together, Texts and Lessons for Teaching Literature and give you all the lesson ideas you need for all text types. Save 15% when you buy them together in a .</p>