Wonder Novel Guide Book

Auggie Pullman just wants to be an ordinary kid. Wonder shows students what it means to choose kindness.

Teach Wonder with a complete guide.

This Novel Guide™ helps students understand R.J. Palacio's literary techniques, from shifting points of view to character development, while exploring kindness, courage, and acceptance, and building reading comprehension, critical thinking, 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.

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.

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.

Print Book (4S2833): Spiral-bound with CD (PDF), 8 x 11 inches, 85 pages plus bonus activities, reproducible.
Book Download (4S2833DL): PDF, 85 pages plus bonus activities, reproducible. We recommend Foxit PDF for viewing or editing PDFs.
Middle school, high school. ©2017.