Kids' Wings
Texas Bluebonnet Books: "My Life in Dog Years"
Gary Paulsen's autobiography, "My Life in Dog Years" can be enriched through the activities offered at this website!
Scholastic
Scholastic: Exploring Author's Language in "The River" [Pdf]
Students will learn about literary devices as used in Gary Paulsen's "The River." This guide also supplies suggestions for group activities (PDF, requires Adobe Reader.)
The Book Report
Teen reads.com: Gary Paulsen
Read about Gary Paulsen's life which has inspired so much of his popular fiction. Be sure to follow the links below his portrait to reviews of some of his newer titles.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Using a Jigsaw for an Author Study
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for an author study. Students will work in a jigsaw activity during a 9-week author study. Downloadable graphic organizers accompany this author's study.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Books Authors: Gary Paulsen
A website dedicated to Gary Paulsen's biography. Learn about the author of children's books such as the Hatchet Series.
TES Global
Blendspace: Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
A learning module with sixteen links to an image, a website, and texts to use while reading Gary Paulsen's Nightjohn.
TES Global
Blendspace: Research Project for Hatchet
A twenty-part learning module with images, websites, texts, and slideshows for students to use while working through a research project for Gary Paulsen's Hatchet.
TES Global
Blendspace: Hatchet Survival
A five-part learning module with links to an image, texts, a video, and a quiz to use while reading Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Soldier's Heart
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Soldier's Heart" by Gary Paulsen. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Companion to Gary Paulsen's Hatchet
[Free Registration/Login Required] The flipchart is meant to be used before during and after reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It includes introduction material as well as discussion topics during reading and assessment questions after...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: The "Brian" Books: Teachers' Guide
A message to teachers from author Gary Paulsen, teaching ideas for thematic activities, and interdisciplinary possibilities are all part of this teachers' guide for the whole series of "Brian" books.
Other
Educational Paperback Association: Gary Paulsen
A brief biography with a picture is followed by citations of work by and about this popular author.