Teacher Materials

Using Penguin Active Reading in the Classroom: Free Resources for Teachers

Penguin Active Reading is an exciting series that provides reading and language learning through full-color, beautifully illustrated readers.

In addition to enjoyable stories and texts, each book provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills and teach vocabulary. Each book is supported by an interactive CD-ROM that contains additional activities and the complete audio recording.

Each book and CD-ROM offer the following types of exercises:

Before Reading

• What's the book about? Pre-reading activities get students interested and help them to think about the topic or story.
• What happens first? Pre-reading activities also develop prediction skills.
• Introductory sentences draw students into the story/text and get them to think about what might happen next.
• Were you right? Check your students' prediction skills with these quick and easy activities.
  
• What more did you learn? Comprehension activities help students consolidate what they've read. 
  
• Language in use offers practice in the key grammar structures. 
  
• What's next? Students are encouraged to think creatively and so look ahead.

After Reading

• Talk about it encourages students to discuss the plot, themes and main characters from the book.
  
• Write about it allows students to demonstrate their understanding of the book, as well as their knowledge of important vocabulary.

Take a Look at a Sample

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain

Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi from St. Petersberg to Cairo. Jim is a runaway slave so they have to be careful. They have a lot of adventures on the river. They meet a king! But is he real? Huck soon finds out the truth.

• View sample chapters to use in the classroom (PDF format see attached pdf)
• Listen to sample audio
• Print Lesson Plans and Teacher Notes 
  
• Download Activity and Progress Tests
  
• Download Answer Keys
• Request a Sample Copy