By The Daring English Teacher When teaching a novel, I love to mix things up and throw in a fun, creative, or collaborative activity that engages students as they analyze and interpret the novel’s theme, characters, symbols, or conflict. This allows me to enhance my students’ understanding of the novel, and it gives them a break from the day-to-day routine of reading and reviewing that often accompanies novel studies. Providing students with fun and engaging, yet still rigorous, activities…

Matchbook chapter summaries super simple and fun project that you can have your students complete during your next novel study.

Novel projects are engaging ways to boost comprehension and hold students accountable or independent reading. The best novel projects for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades Includes several FREE projects and ideas that need very few supplies!

Looking for a hands-on, creative way to wrap up your novel study? The Literary Analysis Creative Square Project is a fun, flexible activity that allows students to showcase their understanding in a unique format. Perfect for middle and high school English classes! Engaging Novel Activities | End of Novel Project | Hands on novel activity

Free homeschool novel studies, book guides, and lesson plans for every grade.

Top picks for upper elementary novel studies. Perfect books for you next novel study in upper elementary. These books are student approved and are great for elementary read alouds or independent practice. Everything you need for your next elementary novel study.

Novel studies are a fun way to teach reading to upper elementary students. It's a great way to expose students to a variety of literature.

I’m excited to share these anchor charts with you! We have been using these for quite some time now, and...

A Charlotte's Web unit study perfect for homeschool, classroom, or thematic novel study. The book study resources listed in this post are all FREE!

Integrating novel studies in your upper elementary classroom is a wonderful way build community and help students strengthen their reading skills. This list of chapter books for 4th and 5th grade are highly rated as some of the BEST books for novel studies. The post also has a FREE Printable list of information for each book including reading and Lexile levels. #chapterbooks #novelstudies #readinglist #bookchoces