A Teacher's Guide to Percy Jackson
The
Lightning Thief: A Teacher's Guide. Click here to download the teacher's guide as a Word
document. This is a full-length guide with activities and discussion questions
for every chapter, designed for classroom teachers who would like to teach a
unit on The Lightning Thief and/or Greek Mythology. It incorporates most
of Rick's favorite reading and writing activities from his years as a teacher.
(If you prefer PDF format for Adobe Acrobat,
download here)
The Lightning Thief: A Reader's Guide. This is a shorter guide, perfect for readers groups and book clubs.
Rationale. A curriculum rationale, based on NCTE models, for those teachers considering Percy Jackson for classroom use.
Literature Circle Questions, from the Scholastic Book Club edition of The Lightning Thief.
The Sea of Monsters: A Reader's Guide. A guide for The Sea of Monsters, featuring a new author interview, discussion questions and class activities!
The Titan's Curse: Discussion Guide. From the Hyperion Books for Children website.
A Lightning Thief WebQuest. Very cool! Designed for grades 3-5 by Mrs. Alexa Shanafelt, Artondale Elementary in Gig Harbor, Washington.
Biographical Information on Rick Riordan. This is designed for students who are doing an author report on Rick Riordan and need information.
A Readers Theater from Lightning Thief. This is an easy-to-use, five minute script to get your kids into the book by acting it out! Thanks to Mary Milligan, who prepared this for the Texas Library Association's Bluebonnet Award list.
Percy Party event guide. Originally designed for the launch of Titan's Curse, this event planner offers ideas and activities for throwing a Percy party in your classroom or library.
Video interview with Rick in North Carolina
Video interview with Rick in Cincinnati
Rick's Demigod Generator. A simple creative writing activity for kids to create their own Percy Jackson-like characters based on Greek mythology.
Project ideas. More great student projects from a variety of schools.
All materials copyright 2007 by Rick Riordan.