Although I love literature and love to read aloud to my children, I often have difficulty finding literature unit studies that I actually like. That’s because many of them have so much to do with basic comprehension and don’t seem to guide the reader to really think about the text. I’ve always liked the literature units from Progeny Press, however. I think they do a good job of bringing in some basic comprehension while also guiding kids to really think about the text.
We’ve had the chance to review for Progeny Press before and enjoyed the literature units, so I was excited when we had the opportunity to review the Interactive Study Guide for Sarah, Plain and Tall from Progeny Press. This guide is recommended for upper elementary school ages and sells for $17.99 as the regular price on the site.

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About the Sarah, Plain and Tall Interactive Study Guide…
The study guide we received is a downloadable product. We received the digital download. The books do not come with the Progeny Press study guides. Many of them can be checked out from the library. I chose to purchase ours because this a book I really like, and I thought there would be times we will use it again.
One really cool thing about these interactive guides is that they can be written in directly on the computer and don’t have to be printed off. (All of Progeny Press’ guides aren’t interactive, but Sarah, Plain and Tall was.) I chose to print ours off and put them in folders for the girls because we are short on computers right now, and I didn’t know how easy it would be for them to both take turns filling in answers and saving their work.

The interactive guide has a variety of activities. It does not focus primarily on basic comprehension. Instead, it offers opportunities for the reader to really think about the story. Sarah, Plain and Tall has some deeper themes to discuss, and the guide does a great job bringing some of those out and providing a variety of ways to interact with the text.

The guide contains
- A synopsis and author information as well as information about the time and setting of the story
- Prereading activities to get kids thinking about what they are going to read
- Vocabulary exercises
- Thinking questions that encourage kids to think about the deeper themes and meanings of the story
- Bible references that relate to the reading
- Literature response that includes activities such as completing compare/contrast charts, note taking about the characters
- Activities with literary terms and devices such as similies and paraphrasing
- Puzzles- crossword and word search
- Hands-on activities such as a bread recipe such as Sarah would have made
Our use of the guide…

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