REFERENCE
Activities and resources to teach Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz.
Students learn about Miep Gies, a friend to Anne Frank's family, and then answer questions about her life.
BOOK GUIDES
Use these lessons and activities with Felita, by Nicholasa Mohr.
Use this literature guide to help you teach On the Far Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George.
TEACHING RESOURCE
The excerpted chapters three and four of the The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn can be used to entice students into reading…
CLASSROOM TOOLS
A two-column chart can be used to organize ideas in any curriculum area.
ACTIVITIES
Enrichment activities and Internet resources to enhance teaching Shadow of a Bull, by Maia Wojciechowska.
LESSON PLANS
For this PowerPoint project, students write alliterative sentences, type them on slides, and illustrate their work with…
Teach your students how to write a narrative poem based on a prose realistic fiction selection using this detailed…
In this computer activity, students read and discuss a poem, imagining what the world would be like if they were in…
Draw pictures and write captions to show the sequence of a realistic fiction story.
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide that offers tried and true techniques for bringing poetry into the lives of…
Students use a web resource to explore the perspective of left-handed people coping in a right-handed society. They…
Students learn how to write a haiku using the Harry Potter book series as a prompt.
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Enjoy comparing and contrasting the interpretations of different countries of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as…
A collection of six stories, Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic is a novel full of fantastical…
This teacher's guide to The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, and The King of Attolia includes a synthesis of the trilogy,…
WORKSHEETS
Give pupils this printable reading comprehension worksheet to teach them about Charles I, who was King of England,…
Print out and give pupils this writing activity to teach them more about World War I, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, and…
Pupils will learn about the life of Martin Luther, chief architect of the Protestant Reformation, with this reading…
Guide book discussion and enrich your curriculum with questions, projects, and activities for Okay for Now, a novel by…
How do your students relate to Nikki and her friends from Dork Diaries #2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl? Use…
This excerpt from Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire will introduce you to Rafe Esquith and his advice on being a successful…
Read about the life and work of J.K. Rowling, the author of the popular Harry Potter series.
