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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

For Students 5th - 7th
On the first day of summer, 12-year-old Percy Jackson learns that he is a demigod. He joins Camp Half-Blood, where he learns the skills required to travel on a dangerous quest to retrieve Zeus' stolen lightning bolt. Selected (7) reading...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: The Lightning Thief Discussion Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Book summary and discussion guide for The Lightning Thief. Printable Student Handout available along with suggested answers.
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Google

Louisiana Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Grade 4: The Lightning Thief: Unit Files

For Teachers 4th
A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the book, The Lightning Thief.
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TES Global

Blendspace: The Lightning Thief

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
A thirteen-part learning module including links to informational sites about Greek gods and goddesses, a rap song, the Greek alphabet, several myths followed by questions or assessments, and a dictionary. All links provide background...
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University of Virginia Library

Prism: "Lightning Thief Review From the New York Times" Visualization

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Polly Shulman's review of The Lightning Thief published in the New York Times. Quotations from the text are blue while summaries are red, and the reviewer's...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: The Lightning Thief

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders learn about traditional stories, focusing on common patterns in literature, specifically the quest. Students come to understand how literature helps us make sense of the world, and how literature from the past influences...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Hurricane Blowing In

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief as a model, writers will find a rhythm in their writing by varying sentence lengths while creating a scene to draw in their readers. The writer will paint a picture with words in order to describe...
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Other

Official Site of Rick Riordan: Teacher's Guides

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lots of downloadable teacher guides to accompany Rick Riordan's books.
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Other

Read Riordan: Official Web Page

For Students 4th - 8th
This is the official site for Rick Riordan which offers articles and quizzes about his books including Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Books Authors: Rick Riordan

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read about Rick Riordan's biography the author of children's books such as The Lightning Thief with Percy Jackson on this website.

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