Today is International Literacy Day!


Illiteracy is still an obstacle for a large part of the world’s population.  large stack of books

“More than 780 million of the world’s adults (nearly two-thirds of whom are women) do not know how to read or write, and between 94 and 115 million children lack access to education.”
-From the International Reading Association, visit here to learn more about them.

What literacy activity will you complete today?  Castle Learning’s literature sets, reading passages, vocabulary review and more can help!

We offer a number of literature review questions to help teachers assess the reading retention of their students.  Featured titles are below, and the list continues to grow!

Elementary English (Elementary School Literature)

  • The Adventures of Frog and Toad series
  • Charlotte’s Web
  • James and the Giant Peach
  • The Josefina Story Quilt
  • Little Bear series
  • The Long Way to a New Land
  • Small Wolf
  • Stone Fox
  • Wagon Wheels

Intermediate English (Middle School literature)

  • A Raisin in the Sun
  • Call of the Wild
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Freak the Mighty
  • Selectionsof Greek Mythology
  • Monster
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • Rules
  • The Cay
  • The Giver
  • The Hunger Games
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham
  • Where the Red Fern Grows

English (High School literature)

  • A Streetcar Named Desire 
  • All My Sons
  • As I Lay Dying
  • Death of a Salesman
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Hamlet
  • House on Mango Street
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Macbeth
  • Night
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Selected works of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Speak
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • The Crucible
  • The Glass Menagerie
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The Outsiders
  • The Pearl
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • The Sun Also Rises
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

About castlelearning

Castle Learning Online provides web-based review, testing, and assessment tools for elementary, middle school, and high school teachers and students in the areas of Math, Social Studies, Science, English, and Foreign Languages with additional offerings in math review and literature. We are a group of people with many years of educational and software development experience. Our talented team includes a mix of education and business-world experience. Our content providers are comprised of experienced elementary, middle school and high school teachers along with people with extensive backgrounds in content writing.
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