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Literature Activity Packs

Help students have fun as they read while meeting all your literary learning objectives.

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Get students excited for reading with dozens of creative activities for literature.

Get students excited for reading with dozens
of creative activities for literature.

Show your students how enjoyable studying literature can be with Prestwick House Activity Packs. These title-specific, reproducible packets contain plenty of literature-based activities that help students think critically while learning about literary elements such as theme, symbolism, characterization, imagery, and allusion.

Every Activity Pack contains more than 30 different activities to help your students engage with the text in meaningful and creative ways. 

Students will write poetry, compare authors’ styles, draw cartoons, act out scenes, create collages, use graphic organizers, and more.

Activity Packs are the perfect way to get your students engaged in literary analysis, from your advanced learners to your reluctant readers.

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“The Prestwick House products I use for all my classes are the Activity Packs and Literature Teaching Units... Prestwick House materials are differentiated—they provide me with a wide range of activities for inclusion through honors-level classes, which is rare to find all in one resource.”

A. Governale, English Language Arts Teacher


Each Activity Pack contains more than 30 different activities, including:

  • Writing poetry
  • Creating dramatizations
  • Completing maps and charts
  • Creating collages
  • Conducting surveys
  • Staging sets and scenes
  • Devising scenarios
  • Drawing editorial cartoons

Activity Packs are also included in our Complete Teacher's Kits.


Complete list of Literature Activity Packs

Farewell to Manzanar
Houston & Wakatsuki, James D. & Jeanne
Hamlet
Shakespeare, William
Inherit the Wind
Lawrence, Jerome & Lee, Robert E.
Jane Eyre
Brontë, Charlotte
King Lear
Shakespeare, William
Macbeth
Shakespeare, William
Monster
Myers, Walter Dean
Othello
Shakespeare, William
Pygmalion
Shaw, George Bernard
Richard III
Shakespeare, WIlliam
Scorpions
Myers, Walter Dean
Slam!
Myers, Walter Dean
Speak
Anderson, Laurie Halse
The Tempest
Shakespeare, William
Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis

Free eBook: The Teaching Literature Guidebook

The Teaching Literature Guidebook

One of the best parts of teaching a work of literature is how many exciting ways there are to tackle one book. Teachers can focus on standards-based learning, identification of literary elements, practice of close reading, or the exciting art of storytelling, to name a few.

The Teaching Literature Guidebook provides a roadmap to our most popular resources and guidance for choosing the right ones for your classroom!

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Find teaching tips and more at the Prestwick House Blog!

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