LESSON PLANS
Students in grades K-4 echo short rhythms and melodic patterns by using their bodies.
REFERENCE
Discover the magic of Walt Disney while improving students' nonfiction reading skills. This printable warm-up includes a…
Teach students to understand relationships between music and other art forms.
WORKSHEETS
Encourage creativity outside the classroom with these printable finger puppets from The Backyardigans. Children will…
Students learn to summarize one chapter from a Harry Potter book and write a one scene script for it.
Read the full text of Edgar Allen Poe's play "The Black Cat," then analyze the play with a lesson plan. Students perform…
BOOK GUIDES
Build background knowledge in 19th-century history and culture with the lesson planning resources in this teacher's…
Help students experience Illyria with performance-based teaching strategies for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Before…
Bring The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane to life by having pupils practice dramatizing and reading aloud from this…
This 24-page teacher's guide to The Importance of Being Earnest focuses on themes, character analysis, and drama-based…
Student work in groups of three or four to pick a scene or event that they will present as a skit.
Students stage a play to demonstrate what they have learned about space and the solar system.
Use this colorful printable to help your students reflect and think about their lives and personalities. It can be used…
Bring school supplies to life through the entertaining story The Little Red Pen by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens…
The plays in The Mousetrap and Other Plays cover Agatha Christie's work from 1944 to 1960 and are accessible to all…
Simulate the immigration process at Ellis Island, with some students acting as examiners and others pretending to be…
Interesting facts and fun activities related to the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Draw pictures and write captions to show the sequence of a realistic fiction story.
A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, contains considerable complexity both in individual characters and in…
Children will identify pioneers in the film industry using their accomplishments described in this worksheet. Pupils…
DAILY WARM-UPS
Help your students master important reading skills with a reading passage and comprehension questions about filmmaker…
Use this printable to have children write a cover letter to sell a fake movie script they have written.
ASSESSMENT
Test your students' knowledge of famous black artists and entertainers.
TEACHING RESOURCE
The life of J.K. Rowling and her famous creation, Harry Potter, are presented in this timeline.
