This full-year digital program offers 40 weeks of interactive reading mysteries that engage middle and high school students in close reading, inference, and finding text evidence. Designed for ELA classrooms,...

This year-long program offers 40 weeks of interactive reading mysteries that engage middle and high school students in close reading, inference, and finding text evidence. Designed for ELA classrooms, each...

Jumpstart your English classes with these engaging reading strategies bell ringers that will sharpen your students' skills in making inferences, summarizing, identifying main ideas, understanding vocabulary, and understanding connotation. With...

Wrap up your novel study of Refugee by Alan Gratz with this engaging and interactive plot diagram game. After finishing the book, students will revisit key plot moments from Josef’s,...

Help students connect fiction to global issues with this Refugee human rights analysis activity. Using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, students will analyze how the characters in Refugee by...

Invite your students to step into the role of a journalist on the shores of Cuba during the 1994 Cuban Raft Exodus—a historical moment that inspired Isabel’s journey in Refugee...

Encourage empathy and creativity with this message-in-a-bottle writing activity inspired by Refugee by Alan Gratz. Students will imagine that one of the main characters—Josef, Isabel, or Mahmoud—can send a letter...

Help students explore the emotional and thematic depth of Refugee by Alan Gratz through a compelling poetry connection. In this activity, students will analyze Brian Bilston’s poem Refugees and compare...

Begin your Refugee unit with this engaging WebQuest, which introduces students to the refugee experience. Using curated videos, articles, and reflection prompts, students will explore key vocabulary, learn what it...

Encourage empathy and real-world connection with this meaningful writing activity inspired by Refugee by Alan Gratz. Students will write a letter welcoming a refugee to their community, drawing on examples...

Encourage creative expression and deep text analysis with this hands-on blackout poetry activity inspired by Refugee by Alan Gratz. Blackout poetry invites students to transform pages from the novel into...

  This resource includes 15 ready-to-use activities and assignments to help students respond to Refugee by Alan Gratz. The activities in this bundle are engaging and interactive and allow students to form...

Challenge your students to think critically and encourage thoughtful discussion with this activity connecting Refugee to Elie Wiesel’s powerful speech The Perils of Indifference.  As students explore Wiesel’s message and...

  This resource will help you review the most important literary devices in Refugee by Alan Gratz. This 73-slide PowerPoint presentation shares some of the most important literary elements in the novel...

  This resource will help your students examine the figurative language used in Refugee by Alan Gratz. The author skillfully uses figures of speech within the novel like metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia,...

Strengthen students’ understanding of Refugee by guiding them to track the powerful themes that connect Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud’s stories. As they read, students will identify and record references to...

  This slideshow will help provide students with the important historical context made in the novel Refugee by Alan Gratz. The novel includes three different plot lines set in Germany during the...

This Refugee introduction presentation includes absolutely everything you need to introduce the novel Refugee by Alan Gratz to your students. This interactive PowerPoint presentation includes pre-reading discussion questions, an interactive class...

Ground students in the real-world events that shaped the lives of Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud with this pre-reading activity for Refugee by Alan Gratz. Before diving into the novel, students...

Wrap up your Refugee novel study with a creative and analytical final project. In this one-pager assignment, students will showcase their understanding of each of the book’s three plotlines by...

  This resource includes ready-to-use questions that will check your students' comprehension and challenge them to analyze literary elements in Refugee by Alan Gratz. This ready-to-use resource includes questions organized by chapter...

  This resource includes six reading quizzes for the novel, Refugee, by Alan Gratz. These short chapter assessments are perfect as a quick check for student comprehension. Each quiz covers two...

Unlock the deeper meaning behind the objects, actions, and moments that carry symbolic weight in Refugee by Alan Gratz. This symbolism assignment invites students to examine key symbols—like Isabel’s trumpet,...

  This unit includes everything you need to teach Refugee by Alan Gratz. With more than 460 pages and slides of content, there will be absolutely no prep required. This novel unit...