Make planning your Front Desk novel study easy with this complete, ready-to-use resource pack for upper primary and middle grades. This unit includes reading comprehension questions, vocabulary activities, creative tasks, discussion prompts, learning intentions, extension activities, answer keys, and a final reflection.
Students will explore Mia Tang’s story through activities focused on family, fairness, courage, community, immigration, belonging, dreams, kindness, and hard work.
This resource is designed to support whole-class novel studies, guided reading groups, literature circles, independent reading, and book clubs.
What’s Included
- Before-reading activities
- 10 reading sets
- Reading comprehension questions
- Vocabulary activities
- Creative response tasks
- Teacher-led discussion questions
- Learning intentions
- Theme-based reflection tasks
- Extension activities
- Final reflection worksheet
- Answer keys
Skills Covered
- Reading comprehension
- Vocabulary development
- Character analysis
- Making inferences
- Identifying themes
- Using evidence from the text
- Summarising key events
- Explaining character growth
- Comparing ideas and perspectives
- Reflecting on fairness, community, and belonging
Perfect For
- Novel study units
- Literature circles
- Guided reading
- Book clubs
- Independent reading tasks
- Whole-class reading
- Early finisher activities
- Homework
- Sub plans
- Reading response activities
Why Teachers Love It
- Saves hours of planning
- Easy to print and use
- Includes a mix of comprehension, vocabulary, and creative tasks
- Supports deeper thinking about important themes
- Gives students different ways to respond to the novel
- Includes answer keys for comprehension tasks
