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... to the LitWorks.com website, which provides literature resources to students worldwide working towards external examinations – and to their teachers.

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): 

 

Chinua Achebe  Maya Angelou  Margaret Atwood  Jane Austen  Mariama Bâ   Samuel Beckett Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Truman Capote Peter Carey Geoffrey Chaucer Kate Chopin J. M. Coetzee Joseph Conrad  Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens George Eliot Laura Esquivel William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald   E. M. Forster Robert Frost Athol Fugard William Golding Nadine Gordimer Graham Greene Sara Gruen David Guterson Lorraine Hansberry Thomas Hardy Nathaniel Hawthorne Ernest Hemingway

Khaled Hosseini Henrik Ibsen  Kazuo Ishiguro Henry James  Ruth Prawar Jhabvala James Joyce Franz Kafka John Knowles Harper Lee Doris Lessing David Malouf Dalene Matthee Cormac McCarthy Frank McCourt Arthur Miller Toni Morrison Naguib Mahfouz Tim O'Brien Michael Ondaatje George Orwell  Wilfred Owen Sylvia Plath Jean Rhys William Shakespeare Mary Shelley John Steinbeck Alexander Solzhenitsyn  Paul Theroux Mark Twain Richard Wright Markus Zusak

 

 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 

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Shakespeare

Unseen Commentary

Workbook Editions

The WordSmith Prompts