Publisher Guides
Some publishers don’t keep their guides online forever.  If you find a guide you think you are going to use at some point, save it or print it.

Bloomsbury USA
http://www.bloomsburyusa.com/ReadingClub/default.asp?cf=1
Reading guides

SCORE: California State Cyberguides
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Organized by grade level.  Due to a lack of funding, no longer maintained.

EDSITEment:  National Endowment for the Humanities
http://edsitement.neh.gov/

English Online: 100 Things to do with a Book    http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/books.html

E-Themes
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/

Farrar Straus Giroux Teaching Guides
http://us.macmillan.com/Content.aspx?publisher=fsgbyr&id=1387

Harcourt Teaching Guides and Reading Group Guides
http://www.harcourtbooks.com/Guides/default.asp
http://www.harcourtbooks.com/BookSearch/readingGuides.asp

Harper Collins:  Harper Teacher
Haper Collins:  HarperTeen
Organized by grade level, includes:  first chapters, discussion guides, author info, teaching guides, audio and more.
 http://www.harperchildrens.com/teacher/
 http://www.harperteen.com/index.aspx

Henry Holt for Teachers
http://us.macmillan.com/Content.aspx?publisher=holtbyr&id=373

Holiday House
 http://www.holidayhouse.com/

Houghton Mifflin
 Teachers guides: includes a variety of books
 http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/librarians/teacher.shtml

Hyperion
Teacher’s guides, discussion guides, audio clips and more.
http://www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com/teachers/index.asp

Kids Can Press Resource Room.  You need to register, but it is free.
http://resourceroom.kidscanpress.com/resourceroom/

Literature, Reading, Activities and Lesson Plans from Richmond Public Schools
http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/readamillion/literatureactivities.htm

Little Brown
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_reading-group-guides.aspx

Orca Books – teaching guides for almost all Orca Currents and Orca Soundings
http://www.orcabook.com/

Penguin, Teaching Tips and Guides
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/yr/tl/tl-guides.html

Penguin Teacher’s Club
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/youngreaders/tl.html

Random, Teachers/Librarians
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/

Scholastic Teacher Guides
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/tradebooks/discguide/
This list doesn't necessarily match what is available on Scholastic's site.  Double-check by searching the title with Scholastic's search feature.

SimonSays (Simon and Schuster)  Reading Guides
http://www.simonsays.com/content/index.cfm?sid=807

Teachingbooks.net – Subscription required
http://www.teachingbooks.net/

Tracie Von Zimmer
http://www.tracievaughnzimmer.com/
Tracie has excellent teaching guides for many books.  She is the author of many of the guides you will find on the publishers’ sites.  She generously has these available on her own site.  She is also the author of a number of YA books.  Must see.

Web English Teacher, Links to Lesson Plans by Author
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ya.html
 
 

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Part of a BER seminar
Updated Spring 2009