LitPlans: Novel Units For Teachers

LitPlans provide everything you need for teaching a work of literature. They have step-by-step daily lessons with all the supporting resources you'll need as a foundation for a solid novel unit. LitPlan novel lesson plans include short answer study questions, multiple choice quizzes, discussion questions, vocabulary worksheets, reading and writing assignments, group and individual activities, 5 different mix-and-match unit tests, review materials, bulletin board ideas, and more!

Puzzle Packs: Puzzles, Games, & Worksheets For Novel Review

Puzzle Packs are a great addition to any novel unit! They provide fun materials like crossword puzzles, word searches, and bingo games as well as matching, fill in the blank, and magic square worksheets that can be used for reviewing important characters, symbols, vocabulary, etc. at the end of your novel study. The worksheets also can be used as alternate test parts--and they're great to have on hand as easy activities for substitute teachers to use, too! 

Q&A Presentations: Add A Visual Element To Your Novel Study

We put the LitPlan short answer, multiple choice, and discussion questions into a slide presentation to help you add variety to your literature lesson plans and to help your visual learners. Slides are arranged in both QQQAAA and QAQAQA formats so you can choose the style that fits your lesson plans. QQQAAA is great for giving quizzes whereas QAQAQA is better for checking quizzes or discussing the short answer questions.

Combo Packs: Complete Resources For Your Novel Unit!

Preparing resources for teaching literature is super time-consuming. Our Combo Packs give you an awesome foundation for your novel unit. They each include the complete LitPlan, Puzzle Pack, and Q&A Presentation for one novel, all designed to work together to help students recognize and learn key elements in the story. With Combo Packs from Teacher's Pet Publications you can enjoy big savings over buying each product individually--and have everything you need for your novel study in one place!

Novel Unit Tests: Multiple-Part End-Of-Book Assessments

Sometimes all you need is a test. Maybe your test has been used too many times. Maybe you need to give a make-up test. Maybe it's late and you're just too worn out to stay up and make one of your own. (We've all been there!) Our Literature Unit Tests have multiple parts--matching, short answer, multiple choice, composition/essay, and vocabulary. Sometimes there is a quotations section as well. They're made so you can use any or all of the parts. When you need a good unit test that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, this is it!

More Resources For Teaching Literature From Teacher's Pet Publications

Our Common Core Approach To Teaching Literature series offers literature lesson plans and activities rooted in the Common Core standards.

Our DramaWorks Guides include lesson plans and hands-on activities for a dynamic approach to teaching plays--plus there are a lot of teacher notes pointing out important elements and ideas you should convey to your students.

 Our Dual Language Packs put Spanish translations next to the English for the study questions, multiple choice quizzes, vocabulary, and tests taken from the LitPlans. They can be used to include your Spanish-speaking students in your regular class novel study!

AP Literature Units

These Literature Teaching Units help prepare your students for the AP Literature Exam. They provide questions like the AP Exam would ask and then explain the correct answers, providing the rationale as to why each correct answer is the best choice. Each AP Literature Unit has questions related to a particular work of literature, so you can help prepare your students for the AP Exam while you are studying the required works of literature in your regular curriculum.

Activity Packs: Activities To Supplement Your Novel Unit

Each Activity Pack includes several activities for each section of the book, focusing on the elements of fiction and reading/writing/thinking skills that the particular work most lends itself to. If you already have study questions and tests but are looking for some engaging activities to use throughout your novel study, Activity Packs are a good choice for you!

Prestwick House Teaching Units

You know the old saying, "So many books, so little time"? There are a lot of books we just haven't been able to get to, to write LitPlans for. Although the Prestwick House Teaching Units are not as complete as our LitPlans, they have good materials including study questions, discussion questions, vocabulary words & definitions, a test, and a few activities. With over 300 titles available, these literature resources will give you some good quality materials to use for some books that are hard to find resources for, as well as most classic titles.

Reader Response Journals

These Response Journals provide several writing prompts for each section of the literary work. They are designed to help your students explore key ideas and elements from the story, support their answers with textual evidence, and practice using many different forms of writing. Cover your writing standards requirements while also covering required reading! Response Journals provide a structured writing element to include in your novel lesson plans. You can use all the questions or pick and choose what most suits your needs. They make good essay questions for tests and excellent discussion questions as well!

Multiple Critical Perspectives

Each Multiple Critical Perspectives literature guide explores a work of literature from three different viewpoints. The viewpoints may include Feminism, Marxism, New Historicism, Formalism, Mythology, or Psychoanalysis (Freudian). Each viewpoint includes notes, essential questions, three activities, questions for discussion, and writing assignments. Not everyone looks at life from the same viewpoint; stretch your students' minds by having them consider other viewpoints in your novel study.

Power Presentations

Screens are a part of how people absorb information now, so it makes sense to incorporate multi-media elements in your literature lesson plans. Power Presentations provide a quick and easy way to do that. With a variety of kinds of presentations and topics available, Power Presentations will help your students enjoy being engaged in learning.

Novel Study Flip Books

Flip Books put essential story information at students' fingertips, and making the flip books helps to impress those important elements into memory. If you're looking for a fun, practical, and useful activity to do with your students, consider Flip Books. Students love making them and learn while they're doing it! This activity breaks the monotony of reading and answering questions, isn't as cumbersome as an essay or research project, and gives students a great study aid! 

Lit Links Literature Guides

Specifically designed to enable students to develop important reading skills, Lit Links guides from On The Mark Press contain numerous creative and cross-curricular activities for increasing students' competency in reading. This guide seeks to strengthen reading comprehension with reproducible chapter-by-chapter questions, comprehension questions, and more - complete with an answer key for educators. Also includes an author bio and story synopsis. 

Great Works Instructional Guides For Literature 

From Shell Education/Teacher Created Materials, these novel guides are packed with cross-curricular activities and tools to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Grades K-12

Literature Kits from Classroom Complete Press

Literature Kit novel study guides have ready-made educational lesson plans that test student comprehension and challenge students to think deeper about a novel. LitKit titles range from award-winners to literary classics for grades 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, and 9-12.

 Novel Unit Teacher Guides

Novel Unit Teacher Guides have a series of reproducible worksheets for students to complete as activities, including study questions, vocabulary, and graphic organizers which help students analyze the story elements.

Novel Unit Student Packs

Novel Unit Student Packs have a series of reproducible worksheets for students to complete as activities, including study questions, vocabulary, and graphic organizers which help students analyze the story elements. Materials in the student packs are completely different from the Novel Unit Teacher Guides.

Standards Based End-of-Book Tests

Each of the questions on these standards-based tests are labeled with the skill/standard keywords that the questions fulfill. Most of the tests are 20 multiple choice questions. Some tests for smaller books have fewer questions.