Motivate your students to appreciate young adult novels. Novel Guides™ help students develop an understanding of literary techniques while building reading comprehension, critical thinking skills, and analytical skills.

Novel Guide Includes:

• CCSS alignment
• Prereading activities
• Vocabulary exercises
• Background information
• Chapter summaries
• Discussion questions
• Literary devices lessons and activities
• Reflective, expository, and analytical writing
• Character and plot analysis activities
• Whole novel project assignments
• Depth of Knowledge end of novel writing prompts
• Grading rubrics
• Final test

Bonus: Differentiated activities designed for struggling readers, PLUS extra activities for each chapter, including selected activities for accelerated learners.

©2017. Middle school, high school. Reproducible.  85 pages plus bonus activities.

Book Download: PDF. Adobe® Reader® required to view PDF.

Print Book: Spiral-bound with CD (PDF), 8 x 11 inches. Adobe® Reader® required to view PDF.

About the Author

Johanna Parkhurst grew up on a small dairy farm in northern Vermont before relocating to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. She holds degrees from Albertus Magnus College and Teachers College, Columbia University, where she studied the teaching of English. She divides her time between teaching and writing, and she's published three novels for young adults in between obsessing over which lesson plan to use the next day.

Johanna loves traveling, hiking, skiing, and yelling at the TV during football and hockey season.