A NOVEL STUDY for THE LAST BEAR by Hannah Gold. This Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover a wide range of the English Curriculum Standards in context. Check out the PREVIEW for an example of some of the content included. This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created in the order of the book. The contents pages outline the skills and strategies that students will be practising as they progress through the novel study. AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED Activities include: Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, cause and effect, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising - engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story. Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

A NOVEL STUDY for THE CHRISTMAS PIG by J.K Rowling. This 100 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each section after they have read it. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of Curriculum Standards in context. This novel study is ideal as an independent activity or follow-up to the book. AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED THINKERS KEYS ARE INCLUDED FOR EARLY FINISHERS. Activities include: Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, cause and effect, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising - engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story. 1 Non-fiction passage with questions - Toys Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including diary writing Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues. All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases. You are welcome to request a novel study in the questions and answers section of my shop! Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for STIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King. This 44 page BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for BEATRICE ZINKER Upside Down Thinker by Shelley Johannes. This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases. Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY Book Companion for ROBODOG by David Walliams. This resource is an engaging and comprehensive unit that allows your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The Unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, vocabulary work. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot. Book response - creative responses, written responses. All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for THE BOY WHO MET A WHALE by Nizrana Farook. This 96 page BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover a wide range of the English Curriculum and ELA standards in context. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and an extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues Answers for comprehension questions included. All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases. Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for THE SECRETS OF MAGNOLIA MOON by Edwina Wyatt. This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. PMI, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, mentor text activities, prefix and vocabulary work, idioms. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases. Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY and Literacy Unit for PODKIN ONE-EAR by Kieran Larwood. This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. PMI, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, mentor text activities, prefix and vocabulary work, idioms. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases. Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for DEMON DENTIST by David Walliams. This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. PMI, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, mentor text activities, prefix and vocabulary work, idioms. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases. Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for THE PHANTOM TOLL BOOTH by Norton Juster. This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. PMI, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, mentor text activities, prefix and vocabulary work, idioms. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases. Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for A TALE DARK & GRIMM by Adam Gidwitz. This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. PMI, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, mentor text activities, prefix and vocabulary work, idioms. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for BOY IN THE TOWER by Polly Ho-Yen. This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. PMI, writing, point of view, and vocabulary work. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

Do your students say they don’t know what to write about? Well NO MORE. This is a pack of 140 Personal Narrative WRITING PROMPTS. Your students will soon learn that they all have a story to tell, and that usually the simplest, everyday stories are the best ones! Each prompt comes with a planning space, a space for vocabulary and in some cases a word bank. Perfect for teachers and subs.

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for SKELETON KEYS The Unimaginary Friend. This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases. Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for CORALINE by Neil Gaiman. This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover a wide range of the English Curriculum Standards in context. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases. Thank you for your continued support.

A 51 page Book Study Companion for A LONG WALK TO WATER by Linda Sue Park. The Unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for THE NIGHT BUS HERO by Onjali Q. Rauf. This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases. Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY and Literacy Unit for STREET CHILD by Berlie Doherty. This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and an extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply drawing from their understanding of the story. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view. PMI, venn diagrams, writing, point of view, mentor text activities, prefix and vocabulary work, idioms. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses. Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work. Applying and Synthesising Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative. Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time! This product is not associated with this book’s author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product. Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases. Thank you for your continued support.