Download or read book An Instructional Guide for Literature: The Dark Is Rising written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use this guide to introduce students to this award-winning story and encourage them to analyze Will's journey to defeat the dark. This instructional guide for literature is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this sensational story. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities were written to support this story and incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. These lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more.