The Call of the Wild

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Telemachos Guided Reading Editions of classic novels are designed to encourage educators to teach once again from the unabridged literary treasury of Western Civilization. </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Each edition provides students-unaccustomed to the sentence structure and vocabulary of novels written over a century ago-</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>a path alongside the story itself of directed questions which light their way towa</strong><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>rd understanding the novel's concrete details of plot character conflict and imagery</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> details essential for all young readers to grasp when they enter for the first time into the world created by Jack London.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Each classic in our series</strong></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>outlines an interpretive method to improve close reading a process that shows students how to develop commentary beyond the plot strategies used by top performing students on national exams.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>guides the students to examine key details as they read each page of the text-questions regarding key literary elements- setting character tone atmosphere point of view plot and dialogue.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>identifies significant passages throughout the text that develop key thematic patterns-providing sample prompts that appear on standardized exams.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>provides annotations for historical and literary context.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>provides samples of annotated pages for plot and for theme.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>includes a glossary of challenging vocabulary.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>About the Editor</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(28 27 26 0.04); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>Editor / Ian Berry MA has been teaching English for the past decade at Jesuit College Preparatory School. His first book co-authored with his former teacher and colleague Michael Degen (The English Coach's Instructional Playbook: Teaching Strategies Informed by Neuroscience Athletics and Psychology 2024) draws upon brain research to guide young readers to access their potential as readers and writers-a desire at the heart of our Guided Reading series.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>