Dread Locks: A Novel Unit

Dread Locks by Neal Shusterman is a great novel for middle grades students. The story mixes mythology and fairy tales to create an edge-of-your-seat novel that students will love to read and discuss. The novel also gives opportunities for lessons on foreshadowing, figurative language, and making predictions.
 With this teacher created novel unit, you'll be ready to jump right in with vocabulary, comprehension and discussion questions, extension activities, and a bank of test questions based on the novel.