BOOK GUIDES
This teacher's guide to The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell includes writing prompts and chapter-by-chapter vocabulary…
Modify these classroom resources for The Springsweet to best suite your students' needs. This guide includes vocabulary…
WORKSHEETS
In this classroom guide, you'll find a variety of cross-curricular activities, discussion points, and projects to enrich…
Jack Gantos's Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical…
This list of suggestions will help you to integrate A Year Down Yonder with other subjects such as math, social studies,…
LESSON PLANS
Students create a script for The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare, the story of Kit, who immigrates…
Students develop a script for Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, the story of an apprentice who becomes involved with…
Readers Theater script ideas for The House of Sixty Fathers, by Meindert DeJong. This is the story of Tien Pao and his…
TEACHING RESOURCE
Find out what it is like to be a judge for the Newbery Awards for outstanding children's literature.
The children's books in this list deal with the topics of love and friendship.
A list of literature that deals with a child's fears.
REFERENCE
Born: Aug. 4, 1961 Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. made history in June 2008, when he became…
Find information about the career highlights of Mordecai Richler, a Canadian novelist and critic.
Read about Harriet Beecher Stowe, an American reformer and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
This teaching guide for Sinking the Sultana , a recount of the sinking of the steam-powered paddleboat Sultana during…
This teaching guide for The Wonderling , a fantastical adventure, includes discussion questions. These discussion…
This handout accompanies the Infobiographical FutureFit Project, and should be used by students as a guide for reviewing…
Review hockey scores and statistics from 1972, when Team Canada defeated the Soviet National Team. This article includes…
GAMES AND APPS
Read about the Scrabble Champions Tournament and learn about history and trivia of this fun word game.
Discover the origins of the Stanley Cup, hockey's most prized trophy. Read about the Cup's history, and learn how the…
Study the life and work of John Keats, one of the greatest 19th-century English poets. This resource includes…
Read about the life and work of Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born English novelist and critic, in this biography.
Study the Battle of Bannockburn through this poem by Robert Burns.
Read a biography of the fictional secret agent James Bond – created by Ian Fleming – to learn more about this…
