TEACHING GUIDES 

Our printable Teachers' Guides include general discussion questions and suggestions for reaching across the curriculum: math, science, language arts, music, and social studies.

The theme and skill connections offered in the guides give students the opportunity to think about issues in some of our finest novels. Through discussion and further study, students will discover that good literature stretches the mind in all directions.

Please feel free to print the guides for use in the classroom.


Aliki
Marianthe’s Story
Classroom Activity Guide

Bruce Brooks
Asylum for Nightface, What Hearts and The Moves Make The Man

Jane Leslie Conly
While No One Was Watching and Crazy Lady!

Sharon Creech
Walk Two Moons, Chasing Redbird and Bloomability
The Teach Creech Teacher's Guide!

Karen Cushman
Catherine, Called Birdy, The Midwife’s Apprentice and The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Pamela Duncan Edwards
Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad

Paul Fleischman
Seedfolks

Jack Gantos
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Jean Craighead George
Julie of the Wolves, Julie and Julie’s Wolfpack

Will Hobbs
Jason's Gold

Jennifer Holm
Our Only May Amelia

Ji Li Jiang
Red Scarf Girl

Kathleen Karr
The Petticoat Party Series

Walter Dean Myers
Monster and Scorpions

Beverly Naidoo and Doreen Rappaport
A Guide to Teaching about Freedom Struggles: No Turning Back and Escape from Slavery

Huynh Quang Nhuong
The Land I Lost and Water Buffalo Days

Katherine Paterson
Preacher's Boy

Tracey Porter
Treasures in the Dust

Lizzie Rockwell
Good Enough to Eat

Tor Seidler
The Rat’s Tail, The Wainscott Weasel and Mean Margaret

Jerry Spinelli
Maniac McGee and Wringer

Diane Stanley; illustrated by Holly Berry
Roughing it on the Oregon Trail

Suzanne Fisher Staples
Dangerous Skies

Sarah Weeks
First Book Story Hour: Mrs McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash

Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House on the Prairie
Little Town on the Prairie
Farmer Boy
Little House on Plum Creek
By the Shores of Silver Lake
The First Four Years
These Happy Golden Years

Laurence Yep
The Serpent's Children, Mountain Light, Dragonwings, and Dragon's Gate