as supporting instruction that helps students become more proficient readers and writers as they learn to analyze, interpret, and evaluate literature. The first three units are organized around motifs or elements that recur in all types of literature: conflict, characters, and discoveries. The other six units are organized by genre-short stories, poetry, drama, fantasy and science fiction, myth, and the novel. The instructional materials include background information for understanding the genres, the selections, and the writers' lives; factual and interpretive discussion questions; and creative and critical writing assignments. For fifteen selections in the anthology, the Connections Between Reading and Writing worksheets provide further intensive reading and writing practice. Additionally exercises throughout the text use specific linguistic features of the selections as springboards to language and vocabulary instruction in some sixty skills. The exercises cover literary terms and techniques, such as allusions and figures of speech, as well as word-study skills important in reading, such as context clues, dictionary use, and word roots. Here are excellent material and tools to help your student become better readers and to help you base your teaching strategies around it so you can draw out the full potential of the anthology for reading development.

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