Do students in your class think studying literature is dull? Show them how enjoyable studying literature can be with Prestwick House Activity Packs. These title-specific, reproducible packets contain dozens of activities for literature that will help students think while learning about literary element such as theme, symbolism, characterization, allusion, and more. They’re the perfect way to to get your students engaged in real study – even students who think they don’t like literature.

Build an excellent AP* Literature curriculum and give students a competitive advantage on the AP exam with Prestwick House AP Literature Teaching Units. These ready-to-use AP Literature unit plans and lessons plans will save you hours of prep time- time that you can spend more efficiently with students. Combine test prep with the literature you’re already teaching. Students will benefit from the challenging multiple-choice and free-response questions that mimic those they’ll encounter on the AP Literature and Composition Exam.

Our Common Care Approach to Teaching Literature guides gives you a series of CSS-specific activities for each reading assignment and for the whole book. All activities are written to the CCSS, not just aligned. Our CCAT series guides are all about in-depth analysis and discussion, grounded in the text. Our CCSS Guides focus on: reading comprehension, analyzing passages, figurative language, elements of fiction & literary devices, meaning and inferences, and writing activities. Answer keys included for everything.

Students can type their answers right into the pdf document, save it, and send it back to you! These interactive student lessons are taken from my LitPlan Teacher Packs and can be used in conjunction with those materials, or they can be used alone. They can be used with Google Classroom, any school learning management system not open to the public, or sent between you and your students via email. GREAT for distance/remote learning or regular classroom assignment work!

DramaWorks guides are designed to give teachers a working understanding of the play and a high level of comfort in analytical discussions of the play, to provide a variety of activities that can be done in class and/or at home, to create and interactive classroom with informative discussions and active student participation in projects and activities. DramaWorks teaching guides include: a synopsis of the play, a learning and teaching guide, using vocabulary from the text, scenes for modern rewrites or passages for closer examination, writing assignments, role-playing exercises, additional activity ideas, and teacher organizers.

For students whose native language is not English, participating in regular classwork is sometimes a big challenge. And it’s a challenge too, for you – trying to find ways to help them fit in with the class, to teach them the material that needs to be covered, and to assess their understanding. Our Dual Language English-Spanish novel study packs provide an excellent solution. We have put Spanish translations directly next to the English for the study guide questions, multiple choice quizzes, discussion questions, vocabulary lists, and matching portion of the vocabulary worksheets from our LitPlans plus created unit tests also in the English-Spanish format.

Each novel flip book has study questions and information pertinent to that particular book in a fun, flip-up style. Flip books are more fun than a pack of notes and concisely put the necessary information at student’s fingertips. Print the PDF file, then follow the quick and easy directions for assembling the flip book (or make multiple copies and have students assemble their own as a fun little project). Your students will have a great time with these fun study aids, and learn in the process!

These ingenious resources give you a practical way to incorporate the teaching of grammar along with the elements of fiction on your novel units. The guide for each novel title includes 16 analytical multiple-choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. Topics covered in the quizzes include grammar, proofreading, sentence types, figurative language, literary devices, imagery, allusions & symbols, theme, and more – all directly related to the novel! Use the quizzes as teaching tools or assessments, for individual use or group completion. The multiple-choice format makes grading easy. Answer keys are included.

These appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities were written to support College and Career Readiness Standards, and incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. The lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to tach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text dependent questions, and much more.

These short store resources are a fabulous new addition to our inventory. How many times have you wanted to teach a short story and had to track down the text in one place, some questions in another place, and activities yet somewhere else?! With everything you need in one comprehensive pdf file, these classic short story units are great to keep on hand for 2-3 day lesson plans for substitute teachers or as a short unit of study in between longer units. Use several together to create a short story unit of study in between longer units. Use several together to create a short story unit study, or use them individually to give students another quick look at an author’s work in addition to your novel study. They could be used in literature circles, with each group studying a different story.

The Levels of Understanding guides contain book section units comprised of five types of questions, from the lowest level of Bloom’s hierarchy of skills to the highest: comprehension questions to assess student’s basic understanding of plot and character, reader response questions to have students make personal judgements and connections to the work, analysis questions to help students examine various techniques and literary or theatrical devices, synthesis questions to foster the integration of knowledge and ideas, and evaluation questions to challenge students to make qualitative judgements.

Literature lessons are resources for non-fiction works. For each section of the book, Lit Lessons include vocabulary work, a fill-in-the-blanks section (to encourage close reading and reinforce important facts), a multiple choice section (that makes students think about what they have read and exercises higher level thinking skills), a writing skills section, and a crossword review. At the end of the reading of the book, there are some whole book review materials to help students remember important people, places, events, and ideas.

Literature Kits have a series of worksheets for chapters (or groups of chapters) which include pre-reading and vocabulary work, comprehension questions, and questions/activities based on Bloom’s taxonomy. Each section has short answer, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and/or true-false questions. Writing task cards are included as well as a whole-book short-answer comprehension test and answer keys to everything.

Lit Links guides include a reproducible student workbook with worksheets and activities for each book section, focusing on reading comprehension and critical thinking. The student materials include creative and cross-curricular activities, chapter-by-chapter questions, vocabulary study, and more! The workbook is great to keep students focused on their reading work and doubles as a comprehensive story guide. Use all or just the parts you want!

LitPlans are a complete foundation of materials for you novel unit, giving you the flexibility of using the detailed, step-by-step lessons provided or picking and choosing the materials that suit your needs. LitPlans include study questions, quizzes, vocabulary work, daily lessons, reading & writing assignments, group & individual activities, discussion questions, review materials, games & puzzles, bulletin board ideas, more activity ideas, 5 unit tests, and more!

These Movie Version guides give you a chapter-by-chapter comparison of the book to the movie version of the same title as well as a general overview. How accurate is the movie version? What’s in the book that’s not in the movie? What’s in the movie that’s not in the book? What’s the same? They also include a movie summary, a movie analysis, a book summary, and a book analysis. Great to give you a comprehensive answer key when you ask students to write an essay comparing the book to the movie.

With Multiple Critical Perspectives, your students will look at the same book through three different critical viewpoints. The viewpoints chosen for each work depend on what the work best lends itself to – feminist, Marxist, mew historicism, formalism, mythological/archetypal, or psychoanalytic. Each multiple Critical Persectives guide is divided into four parts: a general introduction to the work and then one section for each of the critical lenses being applied to that work. Each critical section includes: notes about that approach, essential questions, three activities, discussion questions, and writing assignments.

Novel Unit Student Packs give you hands-on activities and worksheets that reinforce students’ understanding of the content, vocabulary, and analysis of the work. Student Packs include prereading activities, vocabulary activities, study questions, graphic organizers, literary analysis, character analysis, writing projects, critical- and creative-thinking challenges, comprehension quizzes, unit tests, answer key, and scoring rubric.

Novel Units give you some background about the author and the book, initiating activity suggestions, vocabulary activity suggestions, questions (and answers) for each section of the book along with suggested supplementary activities. They usually also have a series of worksheets, mostly in graphic organizer format, to help reinforce vocabulary, the key elements of fiction, and students’ literary analysis of the work.

Each Prestwick House Teaching Unit includes: book notes, objectives, literary terms & definitions, pre-reading activities, vocabulary words(with definitions given but no worksheets), short answer study questions, (for each book section), questions for essay/discussion, a 20-question multiple choice test, and answer keys for study questions & the test. Great for saving you the time of making chapter questions, choosing vocab words, and making a test!

Teacher’s Pet’s end-of-the-book unit test are solid, multi-purpose whole-book test designed to give you maximum flexibility. There are several different sections, each with a different format and focus: Matching (identification of characters, places, symbols), Multiple Choice (easily answered questions, mostly factual), Short Answer (questions that usually start with words like “describe,” “how,” or “why,” requiring more thought), Quotations, Composition (theme, character developments, analysis), and Vocabulary. Answer keys for matching, multiple choice, short answer, and vocabulary

Each ready-to-use Prestwick Power Pack is full of reproducible, skills based activities created especially for students in grades 5-8. From identifying and writing figurative language to seeing the world through the eyes of a character, your students will become actively engaged in each novel you teach. Prestwick Power Packs save you time while making it easy for you to cover key skills and concepts.

Power Presentations are detailed visual aids on a wide variety of subjects related to literature. Many of them are built using the ever-useful PowerPoint format, so all you have to do is connect your computer to a projector, load up the presentation, and you’re good to go.

Studying important things from the novel is a whole lot more fun with puzzles and games. Built to complement the LitPlans but equally able to stand on their own, our Puzzle Packs give you a wide assortment of extra activities and worksheets to help students remember key characters, ideas, and vocabulary from the novel. Includes crosswords, word searches, fill in the blanks, matching, bingo, magic squares, and more for whole book review!

Engage visual learners and check students’ understanding of the novel with one easy activity. Our Q&A Presentations are a visual slide presentation of the study questions, quiz questions, and discussion questions from our LitPlan literature lesson plans.

The writing prompts within these Response Journals require your student to give more than just opinions – they have to support their ideas with evidence form the text. Your students will practice many kinds of writing: personal reflection, poetry, dramatic writing, essays, and much more. They’re packed with dozens of writing prompts and a cumulative multiple-choice test to boot!

Multiple collaborative and individual activities for each section of the book guide students through a thorough reading and understanding of the book. Suggestions for maintaining interactive Novel Logs provide students with additional ways to reflect and connect personally with the novel. Students have the opportunity wo synthesize their ideas through a variety of post-reading activities.

Navel Units’ Standards Based End-of-Book-Test TM include 20 multiple choice questions with questions that mirror the items students might encounter on state tests. They have the skill/objective tag above each question, and include repeated practice of objectives and skills (not just one question per skill). A teacher guide with scoring rubric, objective list, correlation chart, and answer key are also included.

Theme Packs give you the LitPlan Teacher Packs and Puzzle Packs for three or four books related by theme. They offer a cost- effective way to explore theme in depth using a variety of books in one class. Great for differentiating instruction, with the books usually being on different reading levels. Theme Packs are also a great way to get the LitPlans and Puzzle Packs for several books at a cheaper price than buying them individually! (Save $50-$60)

Help your students better understand the words they encounter in your novel unit with these skills-based vocabulary study activities related directly to the novel. Instead of simply copying dictionary definitions, your students will understand words in context, grasp elusive shades of meaning, and develop greater interest in classic literature. Final vocabulary test with answer key included!