Overview
Flashlight Readers is an online club that provides an innovative, interactive literacy experience that invites beginning through advanced-level readers to enter the world of quality books and communicate with favorite authors. Each selected title offers features such as community-building games, activities, author chats, and slideshows, and seamlessly encourages essential reading and writing skills. Teacher and parent support is provided with every featured book to help you support your students in getting the most out of each reading experience.
Associated Unit Plans
- Holes
- Esperanza Rising
- Because of Winn-Dixie
- Chasing Vermeer
- Inkheart
- Hoot
- Charlotte's Web
- A Dog's Life
General Objectives
Students will:
- Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to text
- Identify and discuss book themes, characters, plots, and settings
- Connect their experiences with those of the author and/or with characters from the books
- Support predictions, interpretations, conclusions, etc. with examples from text
- Practice key reading skills and strategies (cause-and-effect, problem/solution, compare-and-contrast, summarizing, etc.)
- Monitor their own comprehension
- Discuss ideas from the book with you, the author, and/or other students online
Related Information
Parent's Guide to Flashlight Readers
Provide parents with support and suggestions to continue the exploration and learning at home.
Authors & Books
Encourage your students to be motivated readers by interacting with writers in our Visiting Authors Series and exploring our database of author and book information.
Flashlight Readers in The Scholastic Store
Grab great books and more to light up your Flashlight Readers.
Related Resources
Fun activities that let students go inside nine popular and highly-taught books.
Find out which standards the Flashlight Readers activities meet, as well as the benchmarks met by specific Flashlight Readers lesson plans.
Use these handy printables to turn your classroom or library into a Flashlight Readers zone.
- Subjects:Main Idea and Details, Literacy, Literature, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences, Literary Devices, Plot, Character, Setting, Story Elements, Summarizing, Reading Response, Literature Appreciation, Vocabulary, Literary Response, Communication and the Internet, Teaching with Technology
- Skills:Literary Elements, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Drawing Conclusions, Identifying Author's Purpose, Main Idea and Details, Making Inferences, Plot, Character and Setting, Point of View, Problem and Solution, Sequence of Events, Summarizing, Theme, Vocabulary
