For Teachers

High Interest Publishing, Inc. is pleased to offer these teaching resources without charge for classroom use by teachers.

Readers' Theatre is a semi-staged play based on a small section of a book. Students use their voices, facial expressions and sound effects to turn 3-to-5 page section of text into a brief drama. The script is not memorized, but the performance must be carefully rehearsed. Often the sound effects require the devoted attention of one student. The goal is dramatic reading – either live or recorded.

Teachers have the permission of High Interest Publishing to download and reproduce any of these scripts for classroom use, all other rights remain with HIP.

To download an MP3 file of students performing the Readers' Theater script for Student Narc, click here.

These scripts are MS Word files, approximately 50 K each:

• Against All Odds

• Avalanche

• Dark Ryder

• Street Scene

• Ghost House

• Scarface

• Student Narc

• Three Feet Under (Jr)

• Against All Odds

• Avalanche

• Ghost House

HIP Three-Minute Reading Assessment

Many teachers have asked for a quick, one-on-one reading assessment that can be used with the reluctant readers in their classrooms. This is the beta-version of an assessment we've been developing over the last year. It provides a fast assessment of a student's reading ability from grade 2 to grade 6 levels using graded selections from HIP Jr. and HIP Sr. books. Click here for more information and to download the teacher and student versions of the assessment.

ELL/ESL Support

We asked ELL/ESL teachers what extra supports their students needed to read our novels. Their first response was this: a list of slang and non-standard vocabulary for preteaching or student support during reading. Here are those lists for Caught in the Blizzard and Scarface.

Articles and Handouts based on talks by Paul Kropp and Lori Jamison

Readability Q&A
The Boy Problem(handout)
Reaching Reluctant Readers(handout)
The BEAR list of Boy Books
Hooking Struggling Readers(article)

Teachers: We are always looking for classrooms to test our novels-in-progress. If you are already using New Series Canada and would like to try some forthcoming books in manuscript format, email us at hip-books@sympatico.ca. Perhaps your class can join with other schools to help us perfect the next group of HIP novels.