Here's a gold mine of timesaving reproducible worksheets to supplement any literature program. Junior Literature Companion helps students identify the elements of good literature and focus their thoughts about what they have read. The reproducible worksheets are organized according to: logs and journals--students can keep track of books they have read, record their new words and thoughts about their readings and predict what will happen in the story; setting--students identify the setting of the story; characters--activities help students identify the characters, describe the characters and apply knowledge to a variety of situations; plot and events--activities ask students to relate events of the story and record their thoughts about what happened; and general activities and personal opinion--worksheets ask for students' evaluations of various aspects of the books. This instructional tool will allow you to help students identify elements of good literature, focus their thoughts about what they have read, and relate readings to their own lives. This versatile guide offers open-ended worksheets that can be used with any book either as group exercises, literature units, or as individual book reports. For reading reporting activities for older students see Literature Companion , Literature Lab , and Creating Quality Literature Units . Grades 1-3.