Novel Pre-reading Activity Books

A great pre-reading introduction to reading the novel to encourage active and thoughtful reading.

Six pages suitable for KS2, KS3 and KS4 students, dependant on teacher assessment of ability.

With a focus on the natural pre-existing ability and preference for students to visually engage.

Most popular novels read at school are included in this series of 15 guides/workbooks, including KS2, KS3 and some KS4.

Using visual stimuli these novel specific guides encourage students to engage in deduction and inference, as well as critical and analytical thinking.

Giving students visually stimulating front covers, each workbook contains either four or five different choices.

Students are presented with a series of questions to answer which can be used to promote discussion in pairs, groups or the whole class.

There are opportunities for students to write their own questions & answers, to then challenge each other.

In addition, the ideas generated in preparing to read the novel can provide a foundation for analytical writing when reading the novel has finished.

Guidance sheets are included for the multiple meanings of colours, and the symbolism of objects.

These guide/workbooks present more able students with opportunities to compare and contrast the effects on readers of more than one front cover.

Differentiation is by outcome.