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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Stem Literacy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn about how to strengthen literacy, inquiry, and problem-solving skills, and how to connect kids with high-quality nonfiction and informational books. Provides videos, articles for parents and for teachers, webcasts for teachers, and...
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EL Education

El Education: Get a Clue

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This nonfiction children's book was created by 1st grade students at the Genesee Valley Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on fossils and local geological history. The expedition consisted...
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EL Education

El Education: Field Guide to Insects in Western Massachusetts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This field guide was created by 2nd graders in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was part of a two-month Learning Expedition that included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research, reading from books and...
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EL Education

El Education: How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This book was created by kindergarten students from the East End Community Charter School in Portland, Maine, as part of an eight-week learning expedition on local food and gardens called, "How Does Your Garden Grow?" These young...
Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Pandas and Other Endangered Species

For Students K - 1st
This book checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #48: A Perfect Time for Pandas by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Pandas and Other Endangered Species, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and...
Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Leprechauns and Irish Folklore

For Students K - 1st
This site shows you how the fact checker checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #43: Leprechaun in Late Winter, by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Leprechauns and Irish Folklore, the nonfiction companion...
Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Snakes and Other Reptiles

For Students K - 1st
This book checks facts related to the book Magic Tree House #45: A Crazy Day with Cobras by Mary Pope Osborne. When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure, they had lots of questions. Magic Treehouse Fact Tracker: Snakes and Other...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 24: Interactive Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will listen to nonfiction books about items that sink and float. Students will participate in filling in words to fill in a teacher-created chart that is connected to the information. Students will then write a...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Explicit Information

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify explicit information in nonfiction and fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books Deserts (A True Book-Ecosystems) by Darlene R. Stille and The Stories Huey...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Sunshine at Home by Review & Herald Publishing

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Sunshine at Home by Review & Herald Publishing (1883), a collection of illustrated passages forming a family portfolio of natural history, biography, and Bible...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Vocabulary Magic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Using the book Farmer Duck, this lesson will take words that are unknown to students and teach students how to determine their meanings. This will help open up the world of reading to students.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Wolves

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a nonfiction interactive ebook about wolves and their family. Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dewey Decimal Classification System Mural

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will select a book from an assigned section in the non-fiction area of the library. After reading the books, students will write a paragraph that summarizes the content area of the book. Students will illustrate the book that...
eBook
Scholastic

Scholastic: Listen and Read

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Choose to read and/or listen to 15 different books on members of the community, animals, and the President. Review vocabulary at the end of each book.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Waste Not Want Not

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Practice reading with Martha with this illustrated, read-along story about the environment and recycling.
eBook
Scholastic

Scholastic: Listen and Read: Pediatrician

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Listen and read along as a pediatrician describes how she takes care of children in this interactive book for early learners.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Play the Dewey Decimal System Game

For Teachers 1st - 5th
This lesson introduces the 10 main categories used in the Dewey Decimal Classification System for non-fiction bookshelf arrangement. A slideshow will be presented to learners to help them learn details about the Dewey Decimal...
Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: H. P. Newquist

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this biography to learn about award-winning author and H. P. Newquist who has written nonfiction books, magazine articles and even film documentaries. Links to his website and a list of his books are provided.
Activity
University of Calgary

The Children's Literature Web Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource is a children's literature web guide.
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EL Education

El Education: What Is a Mastodon?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An online book entitled What is a Mastodon? by kindergarten students at Genesee Community Charter School in Rochester, New York. The book contains information mastodons including what they looked like, how they ate and drank, and how...
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EL Education

El Education: Insect Bookmarks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
These bookmarks were created by 2nd graders at the Alice B. Beal Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts, as part of a two-month Learning expedition on insects. The learning expedition included field observation and collection,...
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EL Education

El Education: Insect Cards

For Teachers 1st - 5th
These local insect note cards were created by 2nd graders from the Alice B. Beal Elementary Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts. The project included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research,...
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EL Education

El Education: Tools for Sailors Ahoy, Mate!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
In this lesson students learn about sailing and contribute writing, illustrations, and photographs to a class book containing information about navigation equipment, the Beaufort Scale, knots, and the signal system of flags used by...

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