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... to the LitWorks.com website, which provides literature resources to students worldwide working towards external examinations – and to their teachers.
What students?
Grades 11-13
Sixth Form
Further Education College
What examinations?
International Baccalaureate
US Advanced Placement
UK GCE Advanced Level
What resources?
- Are you studying or teaching Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet or King Lear?
- Is Jane Austen's Persuasion or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales on your exam texts list?
- Is Poetry and Prose Commentary an important part of your literature studies course?
These downloadable books are designed to help you...
Click on any of the book covers alongside to find out more.
Five of the study guides have been fully and independently reviewed by the US College Board. If you would like to read the reviews, click here to reach the AP Central website. Go to the green button AP COURSES AND EXAMS, then to Teachers' Resources, and put Wordsmith in the Search box.
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We have selected a variety of literature texts commonly studied in Grades 10 upwards, and produced for them a series of study tasks based in the main on actual classroom work as well as on past IB and AP assessments.
The Prompts are not book-length study commentaries like The WordSmith Guides. Rather, they are outline resources, consisting of a range of questions and assignments designed to take students into the heart of each chapter of a novel (or each scene of a play, or each poem in a collection) as they have finished reading it. Together they help build up an overview of each of the five SCASI aspects of the whole piece of writing (Setting, Character, Action, Style and Ideas - the fundamental structure of The WordSmith Guides themselves).
Prompts are available for works by the following authors (and we are steadily adding more authors and texts to the list):
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For more details, click on the WordSmith Prompts book cover to the right.
Our children's books, supported by extensive teaching and learning resources: see below...
“Three delightful adventure stories set in Africa… Illustrated brilliantly…reminiscent of Kipling's 'Jungle Book' - sometimes allegorical, always entertaining.”
Books Monthly, May 2011
“All three of the Paka Mdogo stories are charming. The moral lessons are present, but subtly presented and deftly handled...Author Toshack is working on additional books for this series and new adventures for Paka Mdogo. An increasingly long line of children can hardly wait.”
January Magazine September 2011
“This series of books is creative, clever, and fact-filled.”
Eileen Granfors, Amazon ‘Vine Voice’ Reviewer, December 2011
“I can't believe the amount of work which has gone into this! Absolutely fantastic for the IB PYP programme. Great chapter-by-chapter and whole-book activities, linked to UK curriculum as well as PYP.”
Times Educational Supplement Review Comment, March 2012
