Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Worksheets (Extensive Reading, Extensive Listening)

(TESOL Worksheets--Extensive Reading, Extensive Listening)
[Note: In order to avoid cluttering up this post, I'll post all the materials at the top, then explain them down below.] 

Google Drive Folder HERE, Students Select Vocabulary HERE, Pre-Selected Vocabulary HERE
1. The Sickness of Timothy Frisby: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
2. Mr Ages: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
3. The Crow and the Cat: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
4. Mr Fitzgibbon’s Plow: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
5. Five Days: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
6. A Favor from Jeremy: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
7. The Owl: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
8. Go to the Rats: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
9. In the Rosebush: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Crossword Puzzle (Answers)--Made using Crossword puzzle maker
10. Brutus: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Crossword Puzzle (Answers)--Suggested answers: docs, pub
11. In the Library: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Crossword Puzzle (Answers)--Suggested answers: docs, pub
12. Isabella: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Crossword Puzzle (Answers)
13. A Powder for Dragon: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Crossword Puzzle (Answers)
14. The Marketplace: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
15. In the Cage: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
16. The Maze: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
17. A Lesson in Reading: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
18. The Air Ducts: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
19. The Boniface Estate: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
20. The Main Hall: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
21. The Toy Tinker: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
22. Thorn Valley: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
23. Captured: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
24. Seven Dead Rats: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
25. Escape: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
26. At the Meeting: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
27. The Doctor: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Suggested answers: docs, pub
28. Epilogue: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Suggested answers: docs, pub

Notes and Explanations
These were used with a students studying English as a second language at an advanced level.
You can also see my review of this book (in which I talk a little bit about my experience teaching it.)

For the text of the book, I've used the version at http://esl-bits.net/.  You can find it here:
http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Rats/contenu.html  At this link you can find the full text of the book, and what appears to be a professionally recorded audio book.

In my classroom, I used the written text as an extensive reading project with one group of students, and the audio book version as an extensive listening project with two other groups of students.

I'm not entirely sure whether this website is entirely legal or not.  The website owner appears to have good intentions and to legitimately believe that he is within fair use protection because he is posting the material for educational purposes and because it's not for profit.  But is that enough to save him from copyright litigation?  I genuinely don't know. (Your guess is as good as mine.)  But I wouldn't be surprised if this website is running on borrowed time.  If you want to use it, it might be a good idea to copy the material now before it gets deleted.  (Or, if you are reading this post at some time in the future after the website has been shut down, then you'll have to find the text or audio material elsewhere.)

The text at the website linked to above appears to have been modified very slightly from the original.  As far as I can tell, the only changes are when there is a difference between American and Australian English, in which cases the text is changed into Australian English (the website appears to be Australian).  So, for example, "elevators" is changed to "lifts".
This unfortunately means that the accompanying audio tracks available on the website (which, as far as I can tell, must be a copy of the audiobook produced by the publisher) don't always match the text exactly.  The differences are minor (usually only one or two words per chapter), but they are there.  In classes where I wanted the students to read and listen to the material, I copied and pasted the text onto a Google document, and then previewed it before class, listened to the recording, and changed any words that were different.  (I'm not going to share those corrected texts on this post for fear of violating copyright.  Sorry.  You'll just have to correct it yourself.)

Doing this text as an extensive listening can be done using the audio on the same website.  (Or, if something ever happens to that website in the future, it can also be done using any of the various amateur readers on Youtube--example here).  It can be done either in class or (as I attempted) as homework.
In my extensive listening class, I handed out the worksheet to the students, and emailed them link to the website.  They were instructed to do it as listening practice, and to disregard the text (or to only use the text to check their listening.)  However, when it soon became apparent that many of the students were doing it as a reading, and not a listening, I changed to just emailing them the audio link only.
The audio link can be found by clicking on the audio player, and clicking "open in new tab".  In the worksheets linked to above, the audio link is at the top of each page.
(If you're still worried about the students finding the text, you can also download the audio by clicking on the audio player and clicking "save audio as...".  Then, you can email the students the audio.)

The extensive listening program at my school encourages students to keep a vocabulary journal with new vocabulary from the listening, so initially I added a vocabulary section at the bottom of the worksheet for students to add any new vocabulary that was of interest to them.  However, the second time I used those worksheets, I decided that it was too difficult for my students to find new vocabulary words in a listening text.  (Since they couldn't see the spelling, it was very difficult for them to find and look-up new words).  So then the second time I used these worksheets, I adjusted them so that some useful vocabulary was already pre-selected for them.  And that's why there are two versions of each worksheet--one in which the students select the vocabulary they want to focus on, and one in which some new vocabulary is already pre-selected for them.

When creating the questions for these worksheets, I copied a lot from teachers who came before me.  I searched Google for comprehension questions already created by teachers, and found quite a lot.  (This book is apparently very popular in the classroom.)  I regret to say that when I was making these worksheets, I didn't keep good track of who I was borrowing from every week, and so I can't actually now remember where all these questions came from, and can't give credit to where it is due.  The PDF I borrowed from most heavily was this one here, but there were others as well.  (I also found this PDF useful in setting up the first couple chapters.)
I started creating crossword puzzles for the vocabulary for chapters 8-13, but then stopped when I realized none of the students were doing the crossword puzzles.
4 chapters, linked to above, have suggested answers, but only 4.  Those 4 were created because for one of my groups, we did not have time in class to go over the answers, and so I made those as answer keys and emailed them out to the students.