This site shares a lesson plan. Teachers will use the mythical character named The Magical Mr. Tumblebuddy Flipet to help share students engage in the writing process of stories. Directions for a puppet activity related to the lesson are...

This lesson focuses on Kurt Vonnegut, a science fiction author who is famous for his quotes and satire. It features his short story "Harrison Bergeron," an after-reading quiz, and a writing assignment about it. It also provides the NPR:...

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...

This resource presents a brief profile of an author who began writing his first stories on butcher paper.

This site, part of the Thrilling Detective Website, a personal site devoted to detective fiction, gives an overview of Frederic Brown's detective fiction from the point of view of a fan. The site includes an extensive list of works by...

In this lesson, students will generate unique fantasy drawings that utilize perspective and create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Deriving inspiration from the American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth's The Giant,...

A lesson plan in which students look at different books, write their titles, and sort them according to whether they are fiction or nonfiction. Materials are included.