Timeless Shakespeare is designed for striving readers and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play, retold in traditional play script format with simplified language and easy-to-read type. These retellings grab a student's attention from the first page while staying true to the tone and spirit of Shakespeare's original work.
All four collections adapt classic literature for striving readers; the difference is format. Timeless Classics retells the original novel in full prose, keeping the story's integrity intact. Timeless Shakespeare presents the plays in traditional script format with simplified language. Illustrated Classics tells the story through full-color graphic novel art paired with key phrases and quotations from the original text. Differentiated Timeless Classics takes the same titles from Timeless Classics and Timeless Shakespeare and simplifies the language further for emergent readers, with a larger font and extra white space, while looking identical to the standard edition on the shelf, useful for a classroom where students are reading the same book at different levels. Some titles, including several Shakespeare plays, are available in more than one format, so you can match the book to how a student reads best.
Presenting each play in its original script format, rather than as prose, keeps the structure students will encounter in a full text later, while the simplified language removes the vocabulary barrier that usually blocks striving readers from Shakespeare entirely.
