Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Make Your Own Book of the Dead (Lesson Plan)
At this site from KinderArt students will learn about the Book of the Dead and its importance to Ancient Egyptian culture by creating their own Book of the Dead using colored pencils and scroll paper.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 Now
Online exhibition traces the creation of paper and mixed-media works by artists working in various European art centers along six different thematic pathways, such as popular culture, idea-driven conceptual art, protest, and...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Make Believe Box
In this story, a family has fun gathering things for a make-believe box. Includes audio narration in 9 additional languages with text in English.
wikiHow
Wiki How: How to Make a Hollow Book
If you have a hardback book you don't want anymore this is a creative idea to recycle it. Use it as a secret storage place or a spring board for some art ideas.
Other
Literature Circles: Lesson Plans and More
What are the major roles in literature circles? Check out this site to learn more about the individual roles needed to form a literature circle. Includes links to various reading handouts and lessons.
Other
Seattle University: Literature Circles Resource Center
How can you get started with literature circles in your classroom? This site provides information on every aspect of developing your own literature circle instruction.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Make a Big Book of Rhymes: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
In this teacher-led activity on this site, students work together in the classroom creating a book full of rhymes.
Other
National Museum of Women in the Arts: How to Make a Flag Book
This unique book style would suit any visual art or writing project and be a fancy way to display your work. The directions with illustrations are concise and simple to follow.
Other
Abc Art, Books, and Creativity: Book Instructions
With this resource, students can learn how to make a variety of handmade books with simple paper folding techniques. All directions are easy to follow and come in a printable pdf format.
Read Works
Read Works: Bringing Books to Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how children's books become movies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Other
National Museum of Women in the Arts: How to Make a Rubber Band Journal
These simple journal directions open the door for creating some unique and innovative handcrafted books. All it requires is a stick, rubber bands, hole punch, and paper.
Other
Tikatok: Imagine a Story: Create a Book
Tikatok is a tool for creating storybooks using your own text and images. It is free to join, but there are fees when you order a completed book. E-books can be downloaded fairly cheaply. Printed copies cost more. The value in the site...
Other
Tikatok: Imagine a Story: Create a Book
Tikatok is a tool for creating storybooks using your own text and images. It is free to join, but there are fees when you order a completed book. E-books can be downloaded fairly cheaply. Printed copies cost more. The value in the site...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Art: Book of Multicultural Images
Pictures of people, clothing styles, spiritual deities, places, and animals from around the world to color, to paint, and to use as inspiration. Different historical periods and cultures are represented making this a good resource for...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Integrating Language Arts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This lesson integrates reading, writing, listening, and speaking to boost students' comprehension skills. Students explore Laura Joffe Numeroff 's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie using a variety of techniques, beginning with a picture walk...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Book Files: Bridge to Terabithia [Pdf]
"Bridge to Terabithia", a Newbery Award winner by Katherine Paterson is a contemporary novel of friendship, accepting differences, giving, imagination, and caring for others. Friends, Jess and Leslie live in rural Virginia community....
Other
Access Art: Drawing Together
This site is designed to encourage young students to make storyboards and animate their artwork.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Masks and Aesop's Fables
This multi-media visual and language arts activity offers intellectual, creative, and interpretive opportunities through use of books, music, and the internet. It offers complete grade-leveled lesson plans for grades k-4 which include...
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Movie in the Making
In this project students will report on a book by describing how they would turn that book into a motion picture. After reading and studying the main components of their novel, students will use their imaginations to explain how they...
Other
National Museum of Women in the Arts: How to Make a Tunnel Book
Simple instructions on how to create your own tunnel book. These fun books create the illusion of depth and would be great for book report projects.
EL Education
El Education: Calculicious: Making Calculus Delicious
This book was created by seniors at High Tech High in San Diego, California. It is a product from a cross-curricular study of art and mathematics. For one semester, the students worked on a project in math class and art class that...
Other
National Museum of Women in the Arts: How to Make an Accordian Book
What a simple way to create a book of any kind. Would be a great design to display art or writing samples. Anyone can do it!
Can Teach
Can Teach: Novel and Picture Book Ideas (Lesson Plans)
Novels and picture books are great ways to teach across the curriculum. This site lists about 75 novels and picture books around which CanTeach has constructed lesson ideas and plans. All grade levels indicated.
Other
Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...