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Educator Guide for

Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources.

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  • WINNER | 2017
    Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
  • WINNER | 2017
    Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
  • WINNER | 2017
    Pulitzer Prize (Fiction)
  • WINNER | 2017
    Arthur C. Clarke Award
  • WINNER | 2016
    National Book Award
  • WINNER | 2016
    New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
  • LONGLIST | 2017
    Man Booker Prize for Fiction
  • FINALIST | 2017
    Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction
  • AWARD | 2016
    New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

Colson Whitehead on his early writing | Author Shorts

Colson Whitehead (author of The Underground Railroad) | What I'm Reading

How writing about race in the past evokes the present | Author Colson Whitehead

Guides

Educator Guide for

Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources.

(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)

Awards

  • WINNER | 2017
    Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
  • WINNER | 2017
    Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
  • WINNER | 2017
    Pulitzer Prize (Fiction)
  • WINNER | 2017
    Arthur C. Clarke Award
  • WINNER | 2016
    National Book Award
  • WINNER | 2016
    New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
  • LONGLIST | 2017
    Man Booker Prize for Fiction
  • FINALIST | 2017
    Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction
  • AWARD | 2016
    New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

Media

Colson Whitehead on his early writing | Author Shorts

Colson Whitehead (author of The Underground Railroad) | What I'm Reading

How writing about race in the past evokes the present | Author Colson Whitehead

PRH Education High School Collections

All reading communities should contain protected time for the sake of reading. Independent reading practices emphasize the process of making meaning through reading, not an end product. The school culture (teachers, administration, etc.) should affirm this daily practice time as inherently important instructional time for all readers. (NCTE, 2019)   The Penguin Random House High

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PRH Education Translanguaging Collections

Translanguaging is a communicative practice of bilinguals and multilinguals, that is, it is a practice whereby bilinguals and multilinguals use their entire linguistic repertoire to communicate and make meaning (García, 2009; García, Ibarra Johnson, & Seltzer, 2017)   It is through that lens that we have partnered with teacher educators and bilingual education experts, Drs.

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PRH Education Classroom Libraries

“Books are a students’ passport to entering and actively participating in a global society with the empathy, compassion, and knowledge it takes to become the problem solvers the world needs.” –Laura Robb   Research shows that reading and literacy directly impacts students’ academic success and personal growth. To help promote the importance of daily independent

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