Teacher's Guides
Developed by professional educators, our FREE teacher’s guides and lesson plans offer extensive teaching ideas, content knowledge, and foundational activities that can be adapted for many different educational settings.
Find downloadable teacher’s guides and lesson plans on each book’s product page.
Discover our Recursos en Español, too!
Teacher's Guide Features
Our Teacher's Guides have a flexible format, with discussion questions designed to be adapted and used according to teachers' needs:
- Summary and background information
- Pre-reading focus questions
- Vocabulary
- Discussion and comprehension questions
- Ideas for reader's response and writing activities
- Strategies for multilingual learners
- Interdisciplinary activities and connections
Bebop Lesson Plans
Our Bebop Lesson Plans provide more scripted guidance on how to prepare young readers to engage with the text, have prompts to promote thinking and discussion during reading, and encourage decoding, comprehension, and other critical literacy skills.
Bebop Lesson Plan Strategies:
- Building background schema
- Preparing students to read
- Observing students' reading behaviors
- Determining teaching points to address
- Fostering meaningful discussion and response
- Bridging to relevant content areas
Websites for Lesson Planning
You can find our lesson plans on partner websites!
