After considering the many challenges and insecurities teachers face when teaching a novel, Jamie, Natalie, and Rachel discuss how they tackle teaching a novel. Their conversation focuses on trusting your instincts, using a consistent method or means for students to track their understandings throughout the novel, and the importance of teaching what interests you as the educator. 

Today at school, consider this: What methods can you employ to help students track their understandings in a novel so that they do not become disoriented along the way? How can you use what interested you in a novel to inspire your lessons and daily interactions with students?