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Comprehension Questions for The Best Way to Play

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension questions for The Best Way to Play worksheet, students read the book, then answer 11 comprehension questions about the story about video games written by Bill Cosby.
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Eensy Weensy Spider Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create their own versions of The Eensy-Weensy Spider. In this creative writing lesson, students read The Eensy-Weensy Spider and imagine what else the spider could do. Students then draw a picture depicting the spider engaged...
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Sew Me Some Reading Comprehension!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners listen to a story paying very close attention to the details of the events included. They then point out the main events of the story. Given six squares of construction paper with holes punched on right and left sides, the child...
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Integrating Japanese Folk Tales into the Classroom Using Japanese Kamishibai

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students study Japanese folk tales focusing on the traditional values and key elements. They compare the Japanese values with their own. They discuss Japanese art before designing a set of kamishibai on which they write a summary of a...
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Reading Response Reading Response

For Students 2nd
For this reading worksheet, 2nd graders complete a reading response.  Students fill in the title of the book read and give a brief summary about the story in the space provided.
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Introduction To Pests

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate common pests and match pests to their respective pictures. In a group discussion, students explore the basic needs of pests and share personal pest stories. They examine common self-protection measures. Using the...
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Legends of the Navajo People

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are read a story in which they begin to examine Native American legends. Using different legends, they discuss how they affected the future people of native peoples. They write a short story on the information they gathered.
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Introduction to Song and Dance

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to music and learn different dances. After reading the story, "The Music for Max", students can draw their favorite instruments from the book.
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Healthy Foods

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students illustrate their favorite food and add it to a food pyramid graph, after listening to Russell Hoban's story, Bread and Jam for Frances.
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Road Trip: Line, Pattern, and Movement

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils examine and explore various line, color, and movement elements in artwork. They view and discuss examples of abstract artwork, and create their own original abstract design that tells the story of a road trip.
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What Was THAT All About?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review silent reading techniques as the teacher models them. They discover the meaning of summarizing what they have read including the three step method and read Snake Safari. They then create a summary map together to...
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Fables

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this fables worksheet, students learn about the different parts of a fable. They learn how to retell a story, analyze the characters, identify the moral and dramatize the story.
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The Painting Ballerina

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students read one or two chapters from The Painting Ballerina, then pick a scene or idea from the story that is very vivid in their imagines and draw it. They display their finished works and talk about them as a class.
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Horton Hears a Who

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore the ways that communities work in the story Horton Hears a Who and compare that to the community in which they live.
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Character Sketch

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use what they read to analyze a character in the story.
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Rock Art

For Teachers 1st
First graders create and share their own rock art. They listen and read stories: "Mathematics from Many Cultures" and "The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush."
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The Painting Ballerina

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students read the book "The Painting Ballerina" by Gloria M. Buono, discuss the book, and use images from the story to create their own artistic paintings. Emphasis is placed upon literacy and creative exploration in this...
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Give Me the Facts!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils study how to summarize a reading passage to improve their comprehension. They read a non-fiction passage and use five steps to summarize it while working in groups of three. Next, as class, they decide which group provided the...
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Health and Physical Education

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the story, Just a Minute. They create books with physical activities listed. They predict how many times they can perform that activity in one minute.
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Pablita Velarde: A Biography

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen to Pablita Velarde: Painting Her People, a story by Marcella J. Rich. They discuss the book and why they think the author wrote it. They make a concept map of their ideas using Kidspiration software.
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To Tell You in a Nutshell

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discuss the importance of comprehension and the use of summarization. Through guided practice, they follow six steps in finding and highlighting important information from an article, while deleting information that is not...
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Apple, Apples Everywhere!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen to the story of Johnny Appleseed. They create a chart of students favorite apples. They access the Internet and research nutritional information and facts about apples.
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Number Sense Sampler

For Teachers 1st
First graders illustrate a math problem with counters while reading story books, such as Margie Burton's "Add the Animals". They demonstrate a positive learning attitude toward mathematics and communicate clearly in oral, artistic,...
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Math Mission

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the concept of Puerto Rican animals through using math word problems. They create a story to correlate with the word problems. The lesson also uses data of species counts to show increases and decreases for...

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