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Ladybugs
Students read The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle, and explore the life cycle of ladybugs and how they interact with our environment.
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Ladybugs
Students listen to the book, The Grouchy Ladybug, and discuss what they know about ladybugs. They observe live ladybugs, write down what they see, and write a short story about ladybugs.
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A CLOSER LOOK
Students group objects by their physical characteristics and various compositions using literature to stimulate recall.
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Winnie the Pooh Loves to Read, Too
Second graders engage in a lesson which provides a purpose for reading, writing, and technology. It also instills a sense of pride in students as they create birthday cards for a reading project in the community called, "Happy Birthday,...
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Modern Day Characters from Children's Literature
Students read several studenT fairy tales, nursery rhymes, or folk tales. They compare themes and narratives in each version. They rewrite a story that they have read, placing the characters in a contemporary setting and include...
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Flat Stanley Letter
Fourth graders write a letter requesting that the recipient assist the student in his/her Flat Stanley project.
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Peter And The Wolf: Instrument Listening Game
Learners match the instruments to the characters they represent in Peter and the Wolf. They also identify the instruments by name from listening to their sound.
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ESL Lesson Plan
Students listen to a story and comprehend, in a manner of writing down the story sentence by sentence, possibly in the exact words. They read their own writings to others and make them understand.
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Venn Diagrams With the Pain And the Great One
Students read the story, The Pain and the Great One, written by Judy Blume, and discuss the characters and the sequence of events. They compare/contrast the two main characters using Venn diagrams.
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Let's Read! D.W. The Picky Eater
Students read D.W. The Picky Eater, and identify one new food they would like to try.
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Character Traits
First graders watch a version of the story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and listen to the book, The Rainbow Fish, and identify the story elements of characters, character traits, setting, problem and solution.
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Learn classmates names
Students create a classroom book along the lines of Brown Bear, Brown Bear to help students learn their classmates names. 1. read along with this repetitive phrase book to learn the names of their classmates.
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A "Tail" to Tell
Students write a sequel to the original The Three Little Pigs story or a fractured version of it and share it with classmates.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Second graders respond to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett by illustrating a slide for a class slide show and writing a sentence to go with the illustration. Weather terminology are used in the sentences.
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Freckle Juice
Third graders read Freckle Juice as a shared literature experience. This lesson plan has many good ideas of extensions you can do as your students go through the story.
Kids' Wings
Texas Bluebonnet Books: "So You Want to Be President"
Here you will find a variety of websites to refer to regarding the presidents. These websites will enhance your study of this book with presidential biographies, anecdotes, inaugural addresses and more!
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go
Find stories, novels, and poems from more than one hundred authors. Download select works as MP3 files or read or listen to them online. Available selections span a wide range of literature, from nursery rhymes to the philosophy of...
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Beatrix Potter
At this resource, a brief biographical comment about Beatrix Potter is followed by the texts of 19 of her popular children's stories, including "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin," and "The Tale of Jemima...
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: F. H. Burnett: The Secret Garden
This resource presents the text of the popular children's book, "The Secret Garden." The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or PDF format. In addition, each chapter has downloadable support material which...
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Thornton Burgess
This resource presents the texts of two of Thornton Burgess's nature-oriented children's books, "The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat," and "Whitefoot the Woodmouse." The texts can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Where the Wild Things Are [Pdf]
A reader's theater adaptation of Maurice Sendak's early childhood book, Where the Wild Things Are, is provided on this script. Six character roles are needed in this performance.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper (1890), a children's frontier novel.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1890) an illustrated children's novel.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1890) an illustrated children's novel.