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)

A complete Lightning Thief unit by Kathleen Joaquin of SAISD, including vocabulary activities, quizzes and more! Thanks, Kathleen, for sharing your hard work with other teachers!

• 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.
• 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
• Project ideas. More great student projects from a variety of schools.