Wonder Novel Study Unit – Engaging Year 7 8 9 Teaching Unit

Bring empathy, kindness, and powerful storytelling into your classroom with this engaging teaching unit for the bestselling novel Wonder by R. J. Palacio.
This thoughtfully designed unit helps students explore Auggie Pullman’s journey as he enters school for the first time and navigates friendship, bullying, courage, and identity. Through meaningful discussions and interactive activities, students examine how perspective, character voice, and narrative structure shape the story.
Students investigate key ideas such as empathy, kindness, belonging, and resilience while building strong reading comprehension and analytical writing skills.
The lessons encourage active participation, discussion, and reflection, helping students connect personally with the novel’s message while developing essential English skills.

What’s Included:
A structured and ready-to-teach novel teaching sequence
Engaging lesson activities that promote discussion and critical thinking
Character exploration activities focusing on Auggie, Via, Jack, and other key figures
Theme analysis exploring kindness, identity, friendship, and courage
Activities analysing narrative voice and multiple perspectives
Language features and narrative techniques analysis
Scaffolded analytical paragraph writing tasks
Creative response activities and reflection tasks
Discussion prompts designed to build empathy and thoughtful classroom conversations
Novel interactive investigation case files pack

You can:
Convert to PowerPoint: Upload the PDF to PowerPoint (File → Open) and it will automatically convert to slides.
Use in Google Slides: Upload the PDF to Google Drive, right-click, and open with Google Slides.
Use digitally or print: Upload the PDF to your LMS (Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.) or print it for handouts.
You could also use Canva to upload the PDF and convert and save as a PowerPoint.