The Graveyard Book Novel Study Reader Response Chapter Questions

This reader response product is a supplemental resource for the novel The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Printable PDF and Google Slides (digital) versions are included! As teachers, we want our students to engage with text in meaningful and purposeful ways, but we also need them to read independently to build up stamina.

The reader response questions lend themselves to in-depth class or peer discussions. They require students to provide textual evidence to support their responses and/or express their opinions or perspectives. The graphic organizers provided in this product can be utilized in a variety of ways to differentiate based on your students' academic abilities and needs.

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Printable PDF and Google Slides (digital) versions are included!

• Agree or Disagree?: Before reading the book, students will agree or disagree with statements that connect to the novel.

• Judging by the Cover: Before reading the novel, students will examine the cover of the book and answer the related questions.

• Reader Response Questions: Students answer short-answer and open-ended questions to respond to the text. Included are questions for each chapter (ANSWER KEY included).

• Notice & Note: For each chapter, students will document a key inference, identify a cause-and-effect example, and pinpoint a specific part where the author utilizes descriptive language to vividly portray the communicated ideas.

• Making Connections: Students make connections to a selected event within the story.

• Problem & Solution: Students identify examples of problems & solutions within the story.

• Chain of Events: Students will show how one event led to another in the story.

• Story Plot: Students organize the events of the story on the graphic organizer.

• Character Analysis: Students choose four important character traits that describe the main character and provide evidence from the text to support their choices. Then, they describe how the character changed and developed throughout the story, state their opinion regarding which event impacted the character the most, and support their thinking with evidence from the text.

• Character Inside & Out (Bod): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.

• Character Inside & Out (Silas): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.