The primary objective of literatureplace.com is to create an environment of choices that will enhance your students' needs to become proficient and avid readers and to foster a lifelong interest in reading.  The Core Collection of 150 Bookfolios and the variety of literature-based resources that surround them were selected and designed to meet this goal as well as many others, including the following:

• To invite your students to enter the vast world of ideas, images, and language found in authentic literature, in the classics as well as multicultural and contemporary literature.
• To provide your students with extensive whole-book reading experiences from among the best literature and the best authors each genre has to offer; and to provide you with the instructional resources to support each book.
• To enable you and/or your students to choose from a variety of independent and group activities and to explore a variety of literary elements, such as the author’s craft.
• To engage your students in responding to literature through reading, speaking, writing, and thinking processes that combine many higher-order reading skills and strategies.
• To stimulate your students' ability to grasp the larger meanings embedded in a full-length story, to probe motives, feelings and thoughts of story characters, reasons behind their behavior, the relationships between events in the narrative sequence, and the underlying theme or message of the story.
• To improve your students' comprehension by developing their awareness of the structure and narrative elements of literature, such as setting, plot, character, style, theme, and the relationships among these elements.
• To discover how the reader and the writer interact and engage in a dialogue that brings coherence and meaning to the reading experience.
• To provide opportunities for your students to celebrate and share their reading experience in cooperative learning environments.
• To enable your students to experience different kinds of literature and to make connections among plots, themes, characters, illustrations, styles, and authors.
• To provide an environment in which your students are encouraged to return to the text to explore relationships, find links with their past experiences, build on previous learning, and explore what it is that makes a story.
• To create an environment of choices that enhance your students' needs to become proficient and avid readers and develop a lifetime interest in reading.