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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
- Children's Books and Their Creators
K-2, 3-5
Check out the Web pages of acclaimed children's book authors and illustrators.
- Children's Illustrators: Step Into the Magic
K-2, 3-5
Online resources about children's book illustrators and Caldecott Medal winners.
- Children's Literature CyberHunt
3-5, 6-8
Use the Web to hunt for facts about your favorite books.
- Doing an Author Study?
3-5
Use these resources to locate information on your favorite author.
- Series Books
3-5
Everything you've always wanted to know about Goosebumps and other popular series books.
- What's Old Is New Again: Our Favorite Authors Come to the Web
K-2, 3-5
Learn about famous children's authors through this online collection of Web sites.
- Lesson Plans
- Clifford in the Classroom
Early Childhood, K-2
Find fun teaching ideas and extension activities across the curriculum for books in the Clifford series.
- 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.
- 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: Celebrate Our Favorite Authors
K-2
Observe similarities and patterns in books by popular authors and write stories in different styles.
- 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: Teaching Imagery with Gary Paulsen
6-8
Excerpts from memoirs written by Paulsen show how to write a narrative piece.
- Online Activities Teacher Guides
- Celebrate Hispanic Heritage: Teacher's Guide
Lesson-planning suggestions for using the Hispanic Heritage online activity in the classroom.
- Flashlight Readers Teacher's Guide
Students enter the world of quality books and meet the authors through this interactive online book club.
- The First Thanksgiving: Teacher's Guide
Lesson-planning suggestions for using "The First Thanksgiving" online activity in the classroom.
- Writing With Writers Teacher's Guide
Teacher's guide for the Writing with Writers workshops.
- Reproducibles
- Exploring Author's Language, featuring Gary Paulsen
3-5, 6-8
This lesson plan reinforces figurative language and offers suggestions for classroom projects about Paulsen's The River. (PDF file)
- Meet You at the Movies
6-8
Plan a film based on the writings of Edgar Allen Poe. (PDF)
- Metaphorically Speaking
6-8
Develop understanding of figurative language by asking children to interpret, extend, and create metaphors. (PDF)
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