Fun activities that let students go inside nine popular and highly-taught books.
Grades
3–5, 6–8, 9–12
Activity Type
Flashlight Readers is an interactive literacy experience that lets readers enter the world of books and communicate with their favorite authors. Each activity based on a highly-taught, popular title offers community-building learning activities, author chats, and slideshows, all while encouraging essential reading and writing skills.
While participating in Flashlight Readers, students will:
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Students can create a character scrapbook, navigate a maze using clues from the book, watch an author video, read early drafts of the book, and more.
Students can bring the book to life by creating a comic strip, meet the producer of the movie, see a slideshow of spiders, test their skills on verbs and nouns, and more.
Readers can choose their own adventure and create a story — both based on the book's plots — browse photos of the author, and listen to an audio recording of the author.
Students can rewrite scenes from the book, write a journal entry as if they were Esperanza, and read a Q&A with the author.
Students can play the memory match-up and treasure hunt games to test their knowledge of the book, read a Q&A with the author, and more.
The author discusses writing and what inspired him to write Hoot. Students can create a personalized letter about a cause they care about.
Peek into the author’s writing room, take a quiz on the book, write an editorial in a step-by-step workshop, “become” one of the book’s characters, and more.
Students help Hugo grab parts for his automata in a maze, build their own “Mechanical Men,” listen to exclusive audio with the author, and view his sketches.
The author discusses the book, and students can create an Underland creature, help a character make his way through a labyrinth, and more.
The author answers questions and offers advice to young writers. Plus, students can follow clues to unlock a secret message, play pentominoes, and master two art challenges.
Use this guide to help plan lessons around highly-taught books and their corresponding Flashlight Readers activities.
