The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...

In this 3rd through 5th grade instructional activity, young scholars read the book Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse and write responses as Tovah to three of Rifka's letters in their journal.

Daily Teaching Tools provides nineteen reading response prompts for fiction and six reading response prompts for nonfiction. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy

Check out this informative site about "A Long Way From Chicago" by Richard Peck and learn about small-town life during the Depression in seven short stories for the years 1929 through 1942.

Read about a speech, given by Chaim Potok, at Seattle Pacific University, in which Potok discusses his novels and their cultural and religious messages. "A Conversation with Chaim Potok," includes Potok's responses to several questions...

This site from Minnesota Public Radio discusses Keillor's book that tells a story resembling the life and career of Gov. Jesse Ventura and includes numerous links to audio clips of Keillor discussing the book, Ventura's response,...

This reading guide for "A Long Way From Chicago and a Year Down Yonder" by Richard Peck takes a comprehensive look at the author and his work, seven stories about small-town life during the Depression.

The original presentations of Ghost elicited many negative responses from the public due to its attack on the church and its discussion of taboo subjects. Read about the play, the characters and themes in this informative site.