Michael Clay Thompson is famous for his award-winning curriculum, and for good reason: he holds within him a burning enthusiasm for language arts that is inescapably contagious. He absolutely loves the English language, and his passion for it radiates from everything he does and everything he has written.

Classroom teachers and homeschooling parents who implement the MCT curriculum know that Michael recommends promoting a love for reading in their students by asking them to read more books than what he provides in his curriculum. The great classics are his preference.

Let the team at Royal Fireworks introduce you to the revised editions of two of Michael’s books that are outside of his curriculum but that help educators, whether teachers or homeschooling parents, implement it to maximum benefit: Classics in the Classroom and Classic Words.

Classics in the Classroom is a book in two parts. The first part contains Michael’s inspiring approach to classic literature and his ideas for how it should be taught. The second part is a list of 1,350 books that Michael personally recommends for readers in kindergarten through graduate school, cross-referenced to other distinguished reading lists to help you choose which titles are appropriate for the learners in your life. It includes fiction, poetry, drama, philosophy, history, children’s stories, and more.

Classics in the Classroom
Audience: Teachers & Homeschooling Parents
$15

Classic Words, on the other hand, is less about breadth and more about depth. Michael conducted extensive research for more than a decade to identify the most-used great words in the literature classics. Classic Words presents the twenty most important words, with a detailed look at how, where, and by whom, culminating in a full list of the 100 most frequently used words in the classics. If you want to know the words that are indispensable to an educated mind—and you want to be able to prove it—this is the book for you.

Classic Words
Ages: 12 & up
$12.50

Each of these books helps educators make the most of the MCT language arts curriculum—or, frankly, any good language arts curriculum. Order today, and discover why MCT is the gold standard in the English language arts!

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