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Five of the study guides have been fully and independently reviewed by the US College Board (see the individual WordSmith Guides pages to read brief extracts from the reviews).

STOP PRESS:

Given the changing circumstances schools now find themselves in, we are working to adapt the materials we supply to help teachers and students meet the challenges of distance learning.

We have:

o        Removed the restrictions on copying and editing content from the WordSmith Guides files, to make it easier for teachers (and students) to use the resources selectively and modify them as necessary

o        Expanded and updated the Shakespeare commentaries by adding Essay Banks of around two hundred prompts, giving students a wide choice of topic for their thinking, discussion (where possible) and writing

o        Introduced automatic discounts for multiple purchase of the printable editions, on a sliding scale of up to 45% for ten or more copies

o        Halved the fees for our Site Licence, which allows two-year, on-screen-only access to the resources at a considerable saving

o        Increased the number of texts included in each purchase of The WordSmith Prompts.

 

 

 

We have selected a variety of literature texts commonly studied in Grade 9 upwards, and produced for them a series of study tasks based on actual classroom work as well as on past IB, AP and A level assessments.

 

'These prompts are a terrific tool for generating class discussions, creating short answer exams, or longer essay assignments. I have purchased a number of them and am impressed with each one.'

                                            From our Commendations section

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 William Boyd John Boyne Ray Bradbury Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Anthony Burgess Albert Camus Truman Capote Peter Carey Lewis Carroll Geoffrey Chaucer Kate Chopin Sandra Cisneros J. M. Coetzee Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph Conrad  Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens Umberto Eco George Eliot Ralph Ellison Buchi Emecheta Laura Esquivel J.G. Farrell William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald   Richard Flanagan Gustave Flaubert E. M. Forster  Jonathan Safran Froer Robert Frost

Athol Fugard Ernest J. Gaines William Golding Nadine Gordimer Graham Greene Sara Gruen David Guterson Mark Haddon Lorraine Hansberry Thomas Hardy Nathaniel Hawthorne Bessie Head Ernest Hemingway Khaled Hosseini Zora Neale Hurston Henrik Ibsen  Kazuo Ishiguro Henry James  Ruth Prawar Jhabvala James Joyce Franz Kafka Ken Kesey Barbara Kingsolver Rudyard Kipling John Knowles Harper Lee Dennis Lehane Doris Lessing Naguib Mahfouz David Malouf Christopher Marlowe Gabriel García Marquez  Yann Martel Dalene Matthee Cormac McCarthy Frank McCourt Ian McEwan

Arthur Miller Rohinton Mistry Toni Morrison V.S. Naipaul Tim O'Brien Michael Ondaatje George Orwell  John Osborne Sembene Ousmane Wilfred Owen The Pearl Poet Sylvia Plath Edgar Allan Poe Chaim Potok Annie Proulx Michael Punke Jean Rhys J.D. Salinger William Shakespeare Mary Shelley Richard Brinsley Sheridan Lionel Shriver Alexander Solzhenitsyn  Sophocles John Steinbeck Bram Stoker Jonathan Swift J.M. Synge Paul Theroux J.R.R. Tolkien Mark Twain Alice Walker Oscar Wilde Tennessee Williams Richard Wright Emile Zola Markus Zusak

  

 For more details, click on the WordSmith Prompts book cover to the right.

 
 

 

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