Teacher/Student Resources

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• 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.

• A Complete Lightning Thief Unit

  Curriculum by Kathleen Joaquin of SAISD, including vocabulary activities, quizzes and more! Thanks, Kathleen, for sharing your hard work with other teachers! Click here to View.

• The Lightning Thief: A Reader’s Guide

  This is a shorter guide, perfect for readers groups and book clubs. Click here to download.

• Rationale

  A curriculum rationale, based on NCTE models, for those teachers considering Percy Jackson for classroom use. Click here to view.

• Literature Circle Questions

  From the Scholastic Book Club edition of The Lightning Thief. Click here to view.

• 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! Click here to view.

• The Titan’s Curse: Discussion Guide

  From the Hyperion Books for Children website. Click here to view.

• Biographical Information on Rick Riordan

  This is designed for students who are doing an author report on Rick Riordan and need information. Click here to view.

• 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. Click here to view.

• 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. Click here to view.

• Project Ideas

  More great student projects from a variety of schools. Click here to view.