NEW FORMAT FOR LITERATURE GUIDES:
MINI-GUIDES

                   What is a Mini-Guide?
Christian Novel Studies is committed to providing literature-based materials with a Christian perspective at affordable prices.  The mini-guide's simple format is inexpensive for CNS to produce and easy for you to use:  Put it in a three-ring binder of your choice.

In our family's decade of homeschooling we tried a variety of literature studies.  Although our children love to read, they did not enjoy reading and studying a book for six to eight weeks; this dislike of long studies has been confirmed by other parents/teachers.  Therefore, another feature of a mini-guide is that the time period for reading  a book and completing a guide is approximately two weeks.
 
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Each mini-guide contains vocabulary words and exercises, discussion questions, a variety of activities, and a complete answer key.  The purpose
of a mini-guide is to learn more about a book than is  possible from a quick read-through, but to refrain from overanalyzing it so your child never wants to see the book again (this has happened a couple of times in our home school).  Mini-guides are ideal  for use in home educational settings and in Christian schools.*

*Reproducible sheets that contain fill-in-the-blank activities and crossword puzzles are available (see the price list below).  The sheets are designed to be photocopied for multiple students.

Mini-guides are available for the following types of books that relate to
world history, American history, and geography:
       *Historical fiction     *True historical books        *Classic books                                                         
             Mini-Guides for Beginners (1st-3rd Grades)
             Mini-Guides for Juniors(4th-6th Grades)
             Mini-Guides for Middlers (6th-9th Grades)
             Mini-Guides for Seniors (10th-12th Grades)

A sample mini-guide is available for The Gold Cadillac, by M. D. Taylor; another sample will be available (sometime in the future) for Day of the Blizzard, by Marietta Moskin (both guides are for Juniors-4th-6th gr.).
A sequel story for Day of the Blizzard is available at this time:
The Gold Cadillac Sample.......................................................Book $4.99
Day of the Blizzard Sequel..........................................Book is out-of-print; used copies are available on Amazon or Abe Books

PRICES:
Mini-guide (any grade)..........................................................  $4.00 each Quantity discount: Purchase 5 or more...............................  $3.50 each
Reproducible Sheets: Add $1.00 to the price you are paying for the guide.
 

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