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Scholastic: Shiloh Discussion Questions
Come and check out this informative resource featuring discussion questions, a description of the book, a vocabulary builder, and an extension activity for the book "Shiloh."
Curated OER
A Wrinkle in Time: Discussion and Activity Guide
This resource for A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleinse L'Engle provides opportunities for classroom discussions and several activities.
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
This historical fiction book, winner of a 2006 Newbery Honor for children's books, is perfect for girls graduating from the Little House on the Prairie series. Author Kirby Larson based this tale on her own great-grandmother's...
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
To Dance is a graphical memoir of Siena Cherson Siegel, a young girl growing up in Puerto Rico who eventually came to New York to study with the School of American Ballet. It captures the passion of the artist, as well as the discipline...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Literature Circles With Primary Students, Self Selected Reading
Students respond to self-selected books in journals and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.
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Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Sandry's Book
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Sandry's Book" by Tamora Pierce. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Tris's Book
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Tris's Book" by Tamora Pierce. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Literature Circles: Lesson Plans and More
What are the major roles in literature circles? Check out this site to learn more about the individual roles needed to form a literature circle. Includes links to various reading handouts and lessons.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Girls Read: Online Literature Circles
In this lesson designed especially for girls, students read a work of realistic fiction and get to know strong female protagonists through online literary circles and writing activities.
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Scholastic: Discussion Guide: The Book of Time
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "The Book of Time" by Guillaume Prevost. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Daja's Book (Circle of Magic #3)
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Daja's Book" by Tamora Pierce. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Scholastic: Discussion Guide: The Singer of All Songs: Book One in the Chanters
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "The Singer of All Songs" by Kate Constable. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Circle of Magic
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Circle of Magic" by Tamora Pierce. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Scholastic: Discussion Guide: The Harry Potter Series
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "The Harry Potter Series" by J. K. Rowling. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Agatha Christie Book & Film Club
Produced for librarians, the Masterpiece Agatha Christie Book & Film Club provides everything you need for exciting and engaging library programs.
Scholastic
Scholastic Discussion Guides: Dear America
Good for classrooms and book groups, this site offers background, summary, discussion topics and questions, as well as activities. There's also an interview with the author.
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke
In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut's beloved Poland, ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-old Catholic girl into a world of degradation that somehow gave her the strength to accomplish what amounted...
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Now You See Her by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Hope Shay's life is about acting. Her parents have supported and promoted her talents since she was a little girl. From community theater, dinner theater, and commercials to auditions around the country and finally a place at a...
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl Caraway explores her new neighborhood with an eye for the unusual. She notices the agoraphobic neighbor, the seemingly homeless young boy, and others who do not fit in easily. Stargirl, never one with an inclination to conform,...
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Looking for Alaska by John Green
Everybody has a talent. Miles Halter's is knowing the last words of a lot of different people - people like the author Rabelais, whose enigmatic last words "I go to seek a Great Perhaps" inspire the sixteen-year-old to leave his family...
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Ever since she called 911 from a teen party, Melinda has quieted her voice, literally and figuratively. She only finds it when its needed to prevent a reoccurrence of the same horror. This stunning look at sexual assault and peer...
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Hello, America by Livia Bitton Jackson
Eighteen-year-old Elli has a number tattooed onto her arm. It is an indelible remnant of a terrifying past a life lived, for many years, in the death camp of Auschwitz. When Elli arrives in New York City, she can not speak English, and...
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb
In Cures for Heartbreak, Margo Rabb writes a fictional account of a 15-year old girl whose mother dies just days after being diagnosed with melanoma; then her father falls ill, too. Using vignettes - many appeared elsewhere as short...
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The Last of the Sky Pirates
Fifty years after Captain Twig severed the anchor chain securing the floating rock of Sanctaphrax to Undertown, all is not well in the great floating city or the urban sprawl of Undertown. Rook Barkwater is selected as a Librarian Knight...