DAILY WARM-UPS
Build students' reading comprehension skills with a passage of fantasy fiction and reading comprehension questions in…
LESSON PLANS
Children explore an online resource and translate names and common words from English into hieroglyphics, and vice…
Using pictures of book covers from around the world, students will analyze the accuracy of the art and compare it to the…
GAMES AND APPS
Students participate in reading games and enhance their reading abilities at the same time.
Motivate students to read independently with chapter book series. You're sure to find ones they'll love in this…
Continue your study on how to find the main idea of a story by reading the book Animals Born Alive and Well with your…
Use a lesson that teaches students a systematic approach to using phonics in order to spell multiple syllable words.
Students write fall-themed haikus, then decorate paper with beautiful autumn scenes on which to write their poetry. …
WORKSHEETS
Spark students' imagination with the illustrations and mysterious captions in Chris Van Allsburg's The Mysteries of…
Discover the magic of Chris Van Allsburg's first children's book, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. This printable teacher's…
Explore fantasy, reality, and the power of dreams with The Sweetest Fig, a children's book by Chris Van Allsburg. This…
In this poetry activity, students attempt to determine the main idea the author wishes to present.
Use this poem to teach students about responsibility.
Use this poem to teach students about caring.
Students will construct a drawing demonstrating understanding of descriptive details from the poem and other texts.
Read this poem about a hairy dog, then have students compare and contrast the dog in the poem with other dogs they know.
Use comic strips to teach students that there is a beginning, middle, and end to stories.
This Readers Theater script is from Journey Home, by Yoshiko Uchida. Students enact part of the story of Yuki and her…
This Readers Theater script for The Drinking Gourd, by F. N. Monjo, deals with Tommy discovering runaway slaves hidden…
BOOK GUIDES
Use the 24 discussion questions in this Reading Group Guide to Some Kind of Happiness prompt conversations about some of…
ACTIVITIES
Explain what it means to be a peacemaker. For use with The Gorp's Gift, a story about gun safety and accident…
TEACHING RESOURCE
The answers to the St. Patty's Day Quiz.
REFERENCE
Enjoy a letter written by this revered author.
Classical music has been touted as improving memory, emotion, mood, even test scores. Whether or not classical music is…
