Teaching Literary Elements:  Easy Strategies and Activities to Help Kids Explore and Enrich Their Experiences with Literature (Grades 4-8)
Tara McCarthy, an author who lives in Woodstock, NY, has written several books for Scholastic Teaching Resources. Her other titles includeTeaching Literary Elements, Teaching Genre, The Middle Ages, Multicultural Myths and Legends, Multicultural Fables and Fairy Tales, 150 Thematic Writing Activities,andLiterature-Based Geography.