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- Authors and Books
- Authors & Books
K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Find interviews, biographies, and booklists on your favorite authors and illustrators.
- Internet Field Trips
- Celebrating Children's Book Week Online
K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Online resources related to children's books and the yearly celebration of their reading tastes and wants.
- Doing an Author Study?
3-5
Use these resources to locate information on your favorite author.
- Internet Discussion Groups
Find out how and where to join online discussions devoted to children's literature.
- Lesson Plans
- Big Book of Birthdays!
Early Childhood
Celebrate reading with a class-made big book on a favorite topic — birthdays!
- Books Are Wild
K-2, 3-5
This fun reproducible based on Wild About Books will have students deciding the sequence of events in the book.
- Break the Code
K-2
Use code breaking skills to find out what Freddy is up to.
- Celebrate Dr. Seuss's Birthday
K-2, 3-5,
Celebrate Dr. Seuss Day on March 2 with these activities inspired by his amazing books!
- Celebrate National Children's Book Week
Early Childhood, K-2
This article provides both time-tested and novel suggestions for celebrating National Children's Book Week.
- Clifford in the Classroom
Early Childhood, K-2
Find fun teaching ideas and extension activities across the curriculum for books in the Clifford series.
- Grade-Perfect Theme Club: We Are Family, Grades 2-3
K-2, 3-5
This theme unit for grades 2-3 contains activities, reproducibles, and other tips for exploring all kinds of families.
- Grade-Perfect Theme Club: We Are Family, Grades 4-8
3-5, 6-8
This theme unit for grades 4-8 contains activities, reproducibles, and other tips for exploring all kinds of families.
- Grade-Perfect Theme Club: We Are Family, Grades K-1
K-2
This theme unit for grades K-1 contains activities, reproducibles, and other tips for exploring all kinds of families.
- Harry Potter Brings Magic into the Classroom
3-5, 6-8
Use Harry Potter excitement to carry your class into many skill-building magical activities. Source: Instructor magazine
- Help Chris and Croc Solve Problems
K-2
After reading Chris & Croc, students create their own solutions to the characters' problems.
- Introducing Our Families
Early Childhood
Children will delight in sharing and learning about their family members.
- Just the facts
K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Go on a fact-finding mission through a cool new almanac written just for kids.
- Kids' Bibliography of Fantasy Literature
3-5, 6-8
Read a kid-created bibliography of fantasy literature.
- Learning With Literature: About Friendship and Love
K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Discover great recommendations for stories about overcoming obstacles to friendship and the quest for love and acceptance.
- Let's Learn About Jobs
Early Childhood
Learning about work is interesting and fun!
- Masterpiece Lesson: Faith Ringgold
K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Share the artist's wonderful story quilt Tar Beach, then invite your students to create their own autobiographical squares.
- On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!
K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Check your recall by filling in the record-holders in each category in this activity based on Scholastic Book of World Records 2004.
- Presidential Best Friends
3-5
Check your comprehension of a story by answering key questions from the book, First Pets: Presidential Best Friends.
- Sort It Out WIth Senses
3-5
Your senses will be the key to solving this activity based on Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff.
- Take Reading Outdoors!
K-2
Learn how to incorporate the sights and sounds of the outside world into wonderful reading encounters.
- That's Just Ducky!
K-2
Students explore the world of idioms with this fun matching activity.based on There's A Frog in My Throat!
by Loreen Leedy and Pat Street.
- Then What Happened?
K-2
Practicing sequencing skills while exploring the life of a lovable worm. Based on Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin.
- True or False
K-2, 3-5, 6-8
What events really happened in the book, Duck for President, and which were made up?
- Understanding Opportunity Costs
3-5, 6-8
Teach your students about opportunity costs with Judith Viorst's classic book Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday.
- Unit Plan: All About Me & the School Experience
K-2
Read how one teacher kicks off the school year by making individual books entitled, " Goes to School" which will depict the classroom's school experience.
- Unit Plan: Clifford Learns About the Four Seasons and So Do We!
K-2,
Explore the seasons and the months of the year through literature, poetry, science, math, art, drama, and movement.
- Unit Plan: Colors: An Integrated Literature Approach
K-2
Make each day colorful with literature, poetry, science, math, art, drama, and movement about different colors.
- Unit Plan: History According to Shakespeare
6-8
Study Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and compare Shakespeare's interpretation of the events to historical facts.
- Unit Plan: Immigrants: Our Ancestors
K-2
Students learn about who they are and where they came from by interviewing relatives and displaying their results.
- Unit Plan: Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings
6-8
Make connections between a text read independently and prior knowledge, other texts, and the world.
- Unit Plan: Let's Be Artists!
K-2
Teacher observation will determine each student's ability to gain information from the readings, participate in the discussion, and create an art project based on an artist's style.
- Unit Plan: New and Improved "What I Did on My Summer Vacation"
3-5
The start of the new school year is a time to get to know your students, assess their abilities, and determine learning styles -- here's how to do it in no time.
- Unit Plan: Once Upon a Genre
3-5
Respond to fractured fairy tales by writing in many styles, including a persuasive essay, a personal narrative, a letter of complaint, an advertisement, and even a resume.
- Unit Plan: Real-World Conflict Resolution
6-8
Read a story about Abd al-Rahmen Ibrahima, complete graphic organizers, and discuss conflict resolution.
- Unit Plan: Responding to Literature — Character Analysis
6-8
Children use graphic organizers and charts to analyze a character, then create a "Character T-Shirt."
- Unit Plan: Responses to Literature: Be A Theme Park Designer!
6-8
Respond to a literature selection by creating the characters, costumes, menus, thrill rides, and entertainments scripts for a "Literature Land Theme Park."
- Unit Plan: Teaching Imagery with Gary Paulsen
6-8
Excerpts from memoirs written by Paulsen show how to write a narrative piece.
- Unit Plan: The 100th Day of School
K-2,
Celebrate through literature, poetry, science, math, art, drama, and movement.
- Unit Plan: The Prince and the Pauper
6-8
Show how fiction and nonfiction fit together by introducing the genre of historical fiction.
- Unit Plan: Time Travel Writing Assignment using A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
6-8
Students discover creative ways to respond to literature while building important reading skills.
- Unit Plan: Welcome to Success
3-5
This literature-rich unit will ignite a discussion about the necessary traits for a year of success. Members of a learning community demonstrate many traits of success while fostering those traits in others.
- Who's That Character?
3-5
Test your students reading comprehension and name that character in this activity.based on Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket.
- Word Play
Early Childhood
Read a silly poem and then encourage children to create their own.
- Online Activities Teacher Guides
- Flashlight Readers Teacher's Guide
Students enter the world of quality books and meet the authors through this interactive online book club.
- Writing With Writers Teacher's Guide
Teacher's guide for the Writing with Writers workshops.
- Reproducibles
- "The Day of the Dream"
3-5
Read a story about hearing a great man speak, then try and draw conclusions about characters and events in it.
- Choosing Books for Your Child
K-2
This letter to your students' parents gives tips on choosing the best books for their kids. (PDF) Source: Instant Send-Home Letters
- Shy
K-2, 3-5
This poem and related writing prompts are an excellent way for students to explore feelings. (PDF) Source: 50 Fantastic Poems With Wonderful Writing Prompts
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