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Looking at Literature: Twelve Short Stories, a Play, and a Novel, 1/e

BASIC APPROACH

(Note: This textbook was published by our college division for use by students at post-secondary institutions whose reading skills are below the level needed to succeed in college. Please review this text carefully to ensure appropriateness of content for your students.)

The latest addition to the Longman Literature for College Readers series, Looking at Literature introduces developmental readers to a selection of easily accessible and classic short stories alongside a full-length novel and a play.

With an outstanding selection of authors and carefully designed apparatus, Looking at Literature is the ideal vehicle for introducing literature to developing readers. Organized around different literary elements, such as plot, theme, and character, the selections in the text are surrounded by pedagogy including vocabulary exercises, pre-reading questions, comprehension quizzes, and writing prompts.

FEATURES

• Twelve short stories by such famous authors as Chopin, O. Henry, Twain, Poe, Conan Doyle, Hawthorne, and Melville, a full-length play, and an Agatha Christie novel.
• Each story includes the following features: (1) pre-reading contextual vocabulary exercises, (2) pre-reading word attack exercises, (3) pre-reading questions, (4) biographical headnote, (5) journal entry worksheet asking students to identify the key elements of the story, such as main and supporting characters, setting, plot, and symbols, (6) follow-up questions, which test how well students have understood the story, (7) discussion questions, and (8) writing prompts for further writing.
• A sample lesson at the beginning of the text introduces reading skills, note-taking skills, and commonly used literary terms (carefully defined with the developing reader in mind). The sample lesson also uses a very short story ("Ripe Figs," by Kate Chopin) to illustrate the book's pedagogy (see next point).
• The stories are arranged by literary elements: characters and conflicts, plot, irony, and so forth. An alternative thematic table of contents is provided.
• A full glossary of prefixes and suffixes related to the content is provided at the end of the text.

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