If you’re looking to boost your lesson plans with great reads and important classroom discourse, we have a selection of guides to help! This list of teacher’s guides for every occasion can help you plan for the year! From well-loved canon to important historical moments, you’ll find pre-reading questions, discussion topics, and common core ties that are evergreen conversation starters.
Picture Books: Fiction
Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for Together, A Forest by Roz MacLean, Odder: An Otter’s Story by Katherine Applegate, Abuelo, the Sea, and Me by Ismée Williams; illustrated by Tatiana Gardel, Ánh’s New Word by Hanh Bui; illustrated by Bao Luu, I Wish You Knew by Jackie Azúa Kramer; illustrated by Magdalena Mora, and Why? A Conversation About Race by Taye Diggs; illustrated by Shane W. Evans.
Picture Books: Non-Fiction
Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for Choosing Brave by Angela Joy; illustrated by Janelle Washington, and Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth by Michelle Duster; illustrations by Laura Freeman.
Middle Grade: Fiction
Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for Tuck Everlasting: The Graphic Novel by K. Woodman-Maynard, the novels of Amber McBride, Busted by Dan Gemeinhart, Dream by Barbara O’Connor, A Method for Magic & Misfortune by Craig Kofi Farmer, The Experiment by Rebecca Stead, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, Wishtree by Katherine Applegate, Odder by Katherine Applegate, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart, The Song of Orphan’s Garden by Nicole M. Hewitt, Greta by J. S. Lemon, Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega; illustrated by Rose Bousamra, Farther than the Moon by Lindsay Lackey, The Gray by Chris Baron, by Eagle Drums by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson, The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh, The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton; illustrated by Khadijah Khatib, In the Key of Us by Mariama J. Lockington, Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa by Julian Randall, and Cuba in my Pocket by Adrianna Cuevas.
Middle Grade: Non-Fiction
Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for Impossible Escape by Steve Sheinkin, King: A Life by Jonathan Eig; adapted for young adults by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, Three Summers by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan, The Girl Who Sang by Estelle Nadel with Bethany Strout; illustrated by Sammy Savos, Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz, with Renee Watson, My Selma by Willie Mae Brown, Torpedoed by Deborah Heiligman, and Latinitas by Juliet Menéndez.
Young Adult: Fiction
Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for Let it Glow by Marissa Meyer and Joanne Levy, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson; illustrated by E.M. Carroll, the novels of Amber McBride, The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe, adapted by Salva Rubio and illustrated by Loreto Aroca; translated by Lilit Thwaites, Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray, Thirsty: A Novel by Jas Hammonds, Saints of the Household by Ari Tyson, Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley, Promise Boys by Nick Brooks, Himawari House by Harmony Becker, Cinder by Marissa Meyer, The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow, Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo, A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix by C.B. Lee, and Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angelline Boulley.
Young Adult: Non-Fiction
Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for Loudmouth by Deb Heiligman, The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater, Accountable by Dashka Slater, Impossible Escape by Steve Sheinkin, The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Don’t Look Back by Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, Call Him Jack by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, Duet by Phillip Hoose, Jane Against The World by Karen Blumenthal, Rise Up! by Crystal Marie Fleming, Fallout by Steve Sheinkin, Strongman by Kenneth C. Davis, Whose Right Is It? The Second Amendment and the Fight Over Guns by Hana Bajramovic, True or False by Cindy L. Otis.
