Connecting Novels
& Podcasts

📚🎧Podcasts can serve as a great companion text when reading a novel! 📚🎧

In this book club example, all books address mental health.


Process:

1️⃣ A mental health overview episode

2️⃣ ~1/4 into the book: listen to an expert report

3️⃣~3/4 into the book: a first-person account



Mental Health Book Clubs Podcast

While students listen to their episodes, they have a listening guide.


Engaging with the podcast, they:

📒 Find new info

🤔 Seek to confirm or adjust thinking

🖇️ Connect to the novel

🪞 Reflect on the episode


After the podcasts, they have deepened knowledge & humanized the topic. This leads to greater comprehension and higher engagement with the text!


Podcast Connections to Novels