Literature SMARTsheets™ Software

* Are designed for enhancing use of listening and reading cognitive strategies.

* Offer a wide range of SMARTsheets provided for each of the following areas:

* Story Grammar
* Character Analysis
* Literary Analysis
* Text Perusal
* Story Problem
* Questioning
* Inferencing
* Predicting

* Contain embedded semantic prompts that cue use of powerful cognitive comprehension strategies, as well as topic-specific prompts. For example, the Character Analysis SMARTsheets contain prompts designed to target or focus student thinking on the essential elements involved when analyzing a character (e.g., appearance and personality of a character, role in the story, how the character changed).

* Have become very popular among reading coaches, speech-language pathologists, and English as second language teachers.

* Range in sophistication from those designed for use in the primary grades to those used at the secondary and college levels.

Software includes 72 color and 72 black/white interactive SMARTsheets and over 88 examples of how teachers and students have used them.