School & Library Resources

  • Mix and Match Turnkey Enrichment Activities for K-6 with Fiction & Nonfiction, Early Reader & Middle Grade books.
  • CCSS ELA and NGSS Educator Guides support your existing cirriculum needs with any book in The Nocturnals series.
  • Explore SEL themes using our Social Emotional Learning Activities & Lesson Plans, or watch author Tracey Hecht's Courage Through Stories Video Workshop.
  • Build community at your school with a K-6 All School Read.  
  • Connect your students to author Tracey Hecht through her Read Aloud Writing Workshop!
 
 

The Nocturnals Common Core Language Arts Guides

The Nocturnals Language Arts Guides contain lessons and activities that are aligned to the Language Arts Common Core Standards for 2nd-5th grade classrooms.

 
The Educator’s Common Core Language Arts Guide for The Nocturnals: Mysterious Abductions includes middle grade activities such as classroom discussion questions and a printable curriculum connection activity sheet.
Middle Grade Activities Include:
  • Classroom Discussion Questions
  • Vocabulary / Use of Language
  • Write a Rap for Bismark
  • Write a NocHoc Cheer
  • Wish Upon a Star Reading Connections
  • Acrostic Poem
Early Reader Activities Includes: 
  • Classroom Discussion Questions
  • Challenge Words
  • Problem Solving Graphic Organizer
  • Compare and Contrast Venn Diagram
  • Story and Character Map
 
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The Educator’s Common Core Language Arts Guide for The Nocturnals: Mysterious Abductions includes middle grade activities such as classroom discussion questions and a printable curriculum connection activity sheet. The Mysterious Abductions
Book #1
The Educator’s Common Core Language Arts Guide for The Nocturnals: The Ominous Eye includes middle grade activities such as classroom discussion questions and a printable word search. The Ominous Eye
Book 2
The Educator’s Common Core Language Arts Guide for The Nocturnals: The Fallen Star includes middle grade activities such as classroom discussion questions and a printable Wish Upon the Fallen Star writing activity. The Fallen Star
Book 3
The Educator’s Common Core Language Arts Guide for The Nocturnals: The Hidden Kingdom includes middle grade activities such as classroom discussion questions and a printable acrostic poem writing activity. The Hidden Kingdom
Book 3
The Grow & Read Early Reader Educator Guide includes program benefits, pre-reading and listening activities, and printable worksheets. Grow & Read
Early Readers
 












  


The Nocturnals Next Generation Science Guides  

The Nocturnals Science Guides contain STEM lessons and activities that are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards for 2nd-5th grade classrooms.

 
The Educator’s Science Guide for The Nocturnals: Mysterious Abductions includes middle grade activities such as animal activity cards and early reader interactive read aloud such as compare and contrast venn diagrams.

Middle Grade Activities Include:
  • Investigative Animal Research
  • Animal Activity Cards
  • Investigate Poaching
  • Interview with a Tuatara
  • Nesting Sanctuary Lab
  • Make a Model of a Volcano
  • Ring of Fire Activity
  • Identify Lemurs with a Dichotomous Key
  • Woylie Sound Lab
Early Reader interactive Read Aloud Includes: 
  • Classroom Discussion Questions
  • Listen & Learn (SEL Connection)
  • Stop & Jot in Science Notebooks
  • STEM-Word Wall
  • Animal Feature & Function Table
  • Compare and Contrast Venn Diagram

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The Educator’s Science Guide for The Nocturnals: Mysterious Abductions includes middle grade activities such as animal activity cards and early reader interactive read aloud such as compare and contrast venn diagrams. The Mysterious Abductions
Book #1
The Educator’s Science Guide for The Nocturnals: The Ominous Eye includes Next Generation Science Standards Alignments and Activities such as laboratory investigations and a volcano model tutorial. The Ominous Eye
Book 2
The Educator’s Science Guide for The Nocturnals: The Fallen Star includes Next Generation Science Standards Alignments and Activities such as a crater model tutorial and an investigation of sound waves. The Fallen Star
Book 3
The Educator’s Science Guide for The Nocturnals: The Hidden Kingdom includes Next Generation Science Standards Alignments and Activities such as a tongue twister exercise and a hydrogel investigation. The Hidden Kingdom
Book 3
The Educator’s Science Guide for the Nonfiction Interactive Read-Aloud includes engagement strategies and printable activities such as a word wall.Nighttime Animals
Nonfiction Early Reader
















 


Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Guides

The Nocturnals Use author Tracey Hecht’s book series to open the door for complex, valuable conversations that help kids and adults connect with each other. To help facilitate these conversations, we have partnered with educators to develop SEL-specific programming (that's free!) to support the themes found in The Nocturnals Grow & Read early readers books.

 
The Social Emotional Learning guide features three books from The Nocturnals Grow & Read series and includes activities perfect for early readers around the themes of kindness, courage, and honesty.
SEL Guide with 3 Phases of Instruction:
The Tasty Treat: Kindness
The Slithery Shakedown: Courage
The Chestnut Challenge: Honesty
 
The Nocturnals Kindness Game is designed to support literacy skills and social and emotional learning for K-Grade 2 students. It contains student-led exercises in identifying kind words and behavior to promote the bullying prevention program.  The Peculiar Possum:
Kindness Game
(guided Simon Says)
The Social Emotional Learning program is to be used with The Nocturnals: Kooky Kinkajou to help early readers and early elementary-aged students expand their skills with these play-based activities. The Kooky Kinkajou:
Listening Ears, Imagination River & Constellation Charades
 
The Nocturnals Social Emotional Learning Poster & Brochure pdf includes a How Are You Feeling Today poster with character images and feeling names underneath to have children assess their emotions. The brochure includes endorsements of the Early Reader book program. How Are You Feeling Today? Poster















 
 

Author Programs & Videos

This picture shows pictures of the Read Aloud Writing Workshop hosted by Tracey Hecht, author of The Nocturnals, and includes praise and reviews for her author visits.Writing Workshop
Photos & Endorsements
This image shows the biography of Tracey Hecht, author of The Nocturnals, along with a picture of her against a table near a bookshelf. Meet Tracey Hecht
This picture shows pictures of the Virtual Visits with Tracey Hecht, author of The Nocturnals, and includes an outline of her Social Emotional Learning Workshop, along with praise for her virtual author visits.
SEL Workshop
Program Outline
This image shows a preview of the trade reviews for The Nocturnals series by Tracey Hecht Grow & Read Early Readers & Middle Grade books. Trade Reviews for
The Nocturnals
The All School Read Program includes book reviews and schools’ success with The Nocturnals to show how the book series connects with a K-6 school community. K-6 All School Read
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Read Aloud Writing Workshop with Tracey Hecht 

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Early Reader Storytimes with Tracey Hecht

Learn Courage Through Stories Workshop with Tracey Hecht



Printable Hand Drawing Actvitiy Sheet can be downloaded here.

The Nocturnals Kindness Game Demonstration

 



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