Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Lesson plans and teaching materials


Comprehension and discussion questions, postreading activities with emphasis on writing tasks. Aligned to Common Core. Seven pages, Adobe Reader required.


This blog suggests a pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading activity, links to related sites.


How might students use storyboards to demonstrate and to extend their learning? Check the resources here. Students work with vocabulary, character maps, conflict, comparing, more. Note: Storyboard That helps sponsor this site.


Very structured resource, with standards and targets, assessments, and learning activities carefully presented. This unit plan focuses on character education.


A set of before-, during-, and after-reading activities.


Discussion questions, writing projects, research topics, poetry, literary analysis, review of the book. 7 pages; requires Adobe Reader for access.