A Teaching Guide to the Outsiders

My students enjoyed this novel so much, and the teacher's guide helped me reinforce ideas, especially character. I would urge any teacher to use this guide with teaching.

Educators! Regardles if you are a Homeschooler, ESE teacher or Regular Ed Teacher this is a great resource for you. You have everything you need and for an added bonus purchase the movie. Everything you need for teaching literature or reading is here. Background knowledge, above and beyond engaging activities and discussion materials. The Blackline Masters and extended activities including vocabulary, questions, assessments, writing exercises, literature/story elements and answer keys. Quality lessons for Eng/Reading classes both MS and HS. I used this with High Maintenance students (IEH) which included a mixture of low/high reading/writing levels not to mention emotional disorders. The students enjoyed this and we watched the movie. The students and I had fun naming the know actors:Tom Cruise,Patrick Swayze,Diane Lane,Rob Lowe,Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio (Karate Kid), Emilio Estevez and S.E. Hinton(I didn't know this)played in this movie. Students were amazed of this books timeframe, the authors story and the relevance of this story in spite of it's era. Educators don't pass this up. Use it the first semester or end of the year and experience success! <

This book helped my immensely when I taught The Outsiders in middle school.

This teaching guide includes vocabulary for each section and a variety of graphic organizers (organizers for sequencing,character webs, compare/contrast, etc.). These activities help students go beyond comprehension level activities. This is good because the quizzes provided tend to focus on knowledge level questions. It is good to have the other activities to balance it out.

I was delighted with the contents of this teaching guide. The skills pages, tests, and literay connections are well-written and user-friendly. The materials are rich in quality and very useful for classroom purposes. Each chapter includes Student Directives that can be used in a variety of ways, Vocubulary to anticpate along the reading as well as chapter summaries. There are pages of Character Development, Figurative Language, Plot Development and the springboard for many writing topics.