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The Simple Literature Curriculum Service is currently available only for third and fourth grade public, private,
and home-school teachers. To become a member, you must first pay your $14.95 initial membership fee. This allows
you Simple Literature Membership for one grade level during a single academic year (ending in June). With the payment
of this initial membership fee, you receive a Simple Literature Basic Membership. Here's what you get: Basic Membership Benefits
1. Reproducible reading sheets. Within five working days of membership
request and payment, you receive reproducible reading sheets that correspond to your grade level's short story and poetry
comprehension questions listed at SimpleLiterature.com. You can use these PDF files year after year. Print them, laminate
them, use them on an iPad, email them to your students, or make your own in-class book. You no longer have to buy expensive
student textbooks for your literature class!
2. Summaries.
Along with the reading sheets, you’ll get the short story and poetry summaries, which can help you teach your
students to summarize. Then for your convenience, we’ll also send you the free short story and poetry comprehension
questions and answers found at http://simpleliterature.com/id3.html or at http://simpleliterature.com/id40.html, depending on your chosen grade level.
3. More reading sheets throughout the year. Your membership doesn’t stop there. You will
receive access to a YahooGroup, where future reading sheets, comprehension questions/answers, and summaries (for the duration
of the school year) will be posted. If you join this group, you can download these newly created PDF files anytime during
your membership, which goes from the moment you join until June of that academic year.
4. Discounted member curricula. During any or all months of your
Basic Membership, you can opt to become a Premium Member. Premium Membership lasts only one month at a time and costs a nominal
monthly fee. You can be a Premium Member for one month or every other month or every month during your membership. The choice
is yours . . . monthly. During the month that you are a Premium Member, you can make one request and choose up to 20 lessons
of full curricula for selected stories, poems, and books (at any grade level). This curriculum set of your choosing is emailed
to you as PDF files within five working days of your Premium Membership payment and request. There are no strings attached.
(For the 2011/2012 school year, the nominal monthly fee is $2.50.)
Want to become a Simple Literature Member? To join, scroll to the bottom of this page. Fill out the
New Membership form. Pay your $14.95 initial fee in the PayPal dropdown menu next to the form. It's that simple!
Do you already have a Basic Membership? Want to become
a Premium Member? To become a Premium Member, pay $2.50 through the dropdown menu (above and to the right). At the
same time, you need to make one request for up to 20 full-curricula lessons. These lessons can be chosen from any of the lessons
listed below and to the right. The lessons will be emailed to you as PDF files within five working days of payment and request.
*Note: The yearly membership fee is nonrefundable, and it can't
be pro-rated for late starts or early withdrawal.
Fourth grade curricula:
Fables
"The Ants and the Grasshopper"
by Aesop
Reading sheet included
4 days of lessons
"The
Donkey and the Grasshopper"
by Aesop
Reading sheet included
4 days of lessons
"The Lion
and the Mouse"
by Aesop
Reading sheet included
4 days of lessons
Greek Myths and Stories
"Three Golden Apples: The Story of Atalanta"
by James
Baldwin Reading sheet included
10 days of lessons
"The Story of Cincinnatus"
by James Baldwin
Reading sheet included
4 days of lessons
History - American
"Ben Franklin and His Kite"
by Edward Eggleston Reading sheet included
4 days of lessons
"Eliza Lucas and the Indigo Plant"
by Edward Eggleston
Reading sheet included
4 days of lessons
"Francis Scott Key and
the Star-Spangled Banner"
by Edward Eggleston
Reading sheet included
4 days of lessons
"How Ben Franklin Taught Himself"
by Edward Eggleston
Reading sheet included
4 days of lessons
"John Chapman: A Man Called Johnny Appleseed" by Sheila Seifert Reading
sheet included 4 days of lessons
"Washington Irving as a Boy" by Edward Eggleston Reading
sheet included 4 days of lessons
History - World
"King
Alfred and the Beggar"
by James Baldwin
Reading sheet included
4 days of lessons
"King
Alfred and the Cakes"
by James Baldwin
Reading sheet included
4 days of lessons
Poetry
"A Poem About Johnny Appleseed"
by Mrs. E.S. Dill Reading
sheet included
4 days of lessons
Science"Apples and Their Trees" by Sheila Seifert Reading sheet included
4 days of lessons
Books -
To be read by fourth-grade students
None at this time
Books - To be read
to fourth-grade students by adults
These book lessons include only comprehension and discussion
questions for sets of chapters and directions for a summary book report for the book.
Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
(Fifth grade reading level)
Book is not included.
10 days
of lessons
Snow Treasure
by Marie McSwigan
(Fifth grade reading level)
Book
is not included.
13 days of lessons
*Note: Are you wondering about
a specific fourth-grade book, short story, or poem? Ask us about it. We'll let you know if and/or when it is scheduled
for release.
Third-Grade Curricula (cont.)
Books - For students to read
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
by Rudyard Kipling
Book is not included.
Available within 10 days
of curriculum request.
10 days of
lessons
Books - To be
read to students by adults
Book curricula for novels
that are read to students include only comprehension and discussion questions for chapter sets and instructions for a summary
book report.
Little House in the Big Woods
by
Laura Ingalls Wilder
(Fifth grade reading level)
Book is not included.
14
days of lessons
The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald
Sixth grade reading level
Book is not included.
14 days of lessons
*Note: Are you wondering about a specific third-grade book, short story, or poem? Ask us
about it. We'll let you know if and/or when it is scheduled for release.
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