A new member to the 4MAT Curriculum Series, the 4MAT Literature Series is a set of complete literature study units combined with a Readers Theater script for each novel.
Dr. Bernice McCarthy, CIO of About Learning, along with Fran Zidron, About Learning Consultant and Trainer, are collaborating to design these units for a selected set of Junior High and High School award-winning titles on approved reading lists for Districts.
Each unit contains a student activity book and reader's theater and an accompanying presenter guide with valuable information about the characters, author's purpose, themes and appropriate graphic organizers to help learners organize their book study.
Sample pages from The Pearl by John Steinbeck Presenter Guide:
4MAT Middle School Novels Available Now:
Each one a complete 4MAT Wheel, with Concept and Essential Questions and non-verbal tasks complete with rubrics.
- The Giver by Lois Lowry, 1994 Newberry Medal Winner (Community with complete control, a study in totalitarianism, boy protagonist)
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck (Classic parable of hegemony and greed)
- My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier and Collier, 1975 Newberry Honor Book (American Revolutionary War, boy protagonist)
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare, 1959 Newberry Medal Winner (New England and witchcraft fears, girl protagonist)
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, 1961 (a boy who refuses to give up his dream, dogs and coonhunting, boy protagonist)
- Sarah Bishop by Scott O’Dell, 1980 (Revolutionary War, girl protagonist)
- Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt, 1965 Newberry Honor Book (Civil War, boy protagonist)
- Red Kayak, by Priscilla Cummings, 2004 IRA-CBC Children's Choice Book (gripping story of a terrible accident, three boys as protagonists)
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 1963 Newberry Medal (brother and sister and a friend travel across time, 3 protagonists)
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