Blade: Playing Dead—JLG Reading Guide

Tim Bowler (author of Frozen Fire) has begun a new series that features Blade, a young man with a dark past and uncertain future. The first book, BLADE: Playing Dead, provides nonstop action, intrigue, and powerful characterization. By adding the JLG Guide for this book, you can encourage readers to practice and learn language-arts skills while reading something they can’t put down.

The BLADE: Playing Dead—JLG Reading Guide offers background information about the author, the genre, and literary story elements. Specific language-arts topics that are reinforced include:

• realistic fiction genre study
• characterization study (protagonist, antagonist, static, dynamic)
• making connections between the novel and real life
• understanding slang from another country (Great Britain)
• making inferences and demonstrating cause and effect
• making connections between the novel and personal issues

Library, research, and a character-development activities are also included. Suggestions for further reading include more books by the author, as well as lists of books about gangs, violence, anger, and growing up alone.

Student Edition and Teacher Edition are provided as separate PDFs for one price!