Help your students achieve success in your Ella Enchanted novel study!

This Focus on Reading study guide for the book Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine is designed to make it easy for you to meet the individual needs of students who require additional reading skills support.

Each Focus on Reading study guide contains teacher and student support materials, reproducible student activity sheets, an end-of-book test, and an answer key.

Focus on the Book, a convenient reference page for the teacher, provides a brief overview of the entire book including a synopsis, information about the setting, author data, and historical background.

Focus Your Knowledge, a reference page for students, is a whole-book, prereading activity designed to activate prior knowledge and immerse students in the topic.

The study guide divides the novel into 6 manageable sections to make it easy to plan classroom time.

Before Reading

• Vocabulary Words to Know lists and defines 10 vocabulary words students will encounter in their reading. Students will not have to interrupt their reading to look up, ask for, or spend a lot of time figuring out the meaning of unfamiliar words. These words are later studied in-depth within the lesson.
• Things to Know identifies terms or concepts that are integral to the reading but that may not be familiar to today’s students. This section is intended to “level the playing field” for those students who may not have much prior knowledge about the time period, culture, or theme of the book. It also gets students involved with the book, increasing interest before they begin reading.
• Questions to Think About helps students focus on the main ideas and important details they should be looking for as they read. This activity helps give students a purpose for reading. The goal of these guiding questions is to build knowledge, confidence, and comfort with the topics in the reading.  

During Reading

• Build Your Vocabulary presents the 10 unit focus words in the exact context of the book. Students are then asked to write their own definitions and sentences for the words.
• Check Your Understanding: Multiple Choice offers 10 multiple-choice, literal comprehension questions for each section.
• Check Your Understanding: Short Answer contains 10 short-answer questions based on the reading.

After Reading

• Deepen Your Understanding is a writing activity that extends appreciation and analysis of the book. This activity focuses on critical-thinking skills and literary analysis.
• End-of-Book Test contains 20 multiple-choice items covering the book. These items ask questions that require students to synthesize the information in the book and make inferences in their answers.

These copyrighted materials are licensed for use by one teacher in his/her own classroom.