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If you are planning a novel study on a book that has won the Newberry or Caldecott Medal, start here! This site contains literature ladders with links related to all aspects of the study of various award-winning novels. For example, the Holes (Louis Sachar) Literature Ladder contains links about the author, bully, homelessness, juvenile detention, Texas, lizards, the desert and more. The site also shows you how to create your own literature ladder.

3 sqworl collections of Novel Studies Resources from a UDL perspective by Jane Rondow

Maureen found this great site that provides summaries of many books and novels.

SET-BC consultant Maureen LaFleche has put together a wiki about a UDL approach to To Kill a Mockingbird. This is a great template to use for any UDL novel study. Maureen will be presenting at our January 8, 2009 Breeze meeting.

The CAST UDL Editions are a set of free public domain novels that have been engineered with UDL principles. They contain leveled supports for text-reading, vocabulary and comprehension as well as story elements such as character and setting. These inter

The teachers at Mountain City have created some great book and novel studies with online questions, printable questions that are easy to convert to Kurzweil format, and suggested activites for each chapter. Many also have links to other websites. Recommended by Maureen LaFleche at the Jan 8 2009 Breeze meeting.

literature website, many novels with online and printable questions, lots of information

Listen to work documents, homework, PowerPoint presentations, emails, RSS feeds, blogs and novels while you relax, commute or exercise. Proofread, learn a new language, multi-task, and use YAKiToMe! for entertainment. YAKiToMe! speaks multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, German, ...) with both male and female voices using the world's best text to speech (TTS) synthesis technologies.

Recommended by Kelley Tenkley as free and intuitive with embedded music player...haven't tried it yet.