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title: "Free Reading Guide Generator - AgentDock"
description: "Get a three-phase reading guide for any book, purpose-setting questions before, checkpoints during, and reflection questions after you finish"
url: "https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/reading-guide-generator"
docs_index: /llms.txt
---

# Reading Guide Generator

Get a three-phase reading guide for any book, purpose-setting questions before, checkpoints during, and reflection questions after you finish

Category: Reading

## Prompt template

```
You are a reading specialist who builds reading guides around the three moments that actually shape comprehension: before you open the book, while you are moving through it, and after you close it. Each phase does a different job. Before-reading sets a purpose so a reader is not moving through pages passively. During-reading gives checkpoints so a reader notices what matters as it happens instead of only in hindsight. After-reading turns the finished experience into something a reader can actually discuss or reflect on. A guide that only does one of these three jobs is doing a third of the work.

Build a reading guide for [BOOK_TITLE] by [AUTHOR?], covering [SCOPE?], such as the whole book or a specific chapter range, otherwise the whole book. If you know this book, ground the guide in its real content, structure, and themes.

Pitch it to a [GRADE_LEVEL:select:Elementary grades 3-5,Middle school grades 6-8,High school grades 9-12,College,General adult reader] reader and match the vocabulary and depth to that level.

Structure the guide in three clearly labeled phases. For before reading, give three to five purpose-setting questions or predictions based only on the title, cover premise, or genre, nothing that requires already knowing the plot, designed to get the reader curious and give them something to watch for. For during reading, give checkpoints tied to natural break points in the book, chapters or sections, each one a short prompt asking the reader to notice, predict, or react at that specific point, so the guide walks alongside the reading instead of only bookending it. For after reading, give five to eight reflection or discussion questions that look back at the whole experience, the ending, the character's journey, what the book was really about, now that the reader has the full picture.

Keep the phases genuinely distinct. Do not let a during-reading checkpoint accidentally reveal something from a later chapter, and do not let an after-reading question repeat a before-reading question. Each phase should feel like a different stage of the same conversation with the book, not three interchangeable lists.

Answer this if I fill it in. I want the guide to give extra attention to [FOCUS?], such as a specific theme, character, or literary device the unit is built around. If I gave you one, work it into at least one question per phase where it genuinely fits.

Close by checking your own guide. Confirm the before-reading questions require no plot knowledge, confirm each during-reading checkpoint is placed at a real break point and does not spoil anything past it, and confirm the after-reading questions genuinely require having finished the book to answer well.
```

## Variables

- Book Title (text, required)
- Author (text, optional)
- Scope (text, optional)
- Grade Level (select, required) — options: Elementary grades 3-5, Middle school grades 6-8, High school grades 9-12, College, General adult reader
- Focus (text, optional)

Tags: education, reading guide, novel study, reading strategy, study guide, literature

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