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Curated OER

Shared Reading: Greedy Cat's Breakfast

For Teachers K
Students explain they need food to live and grow. They discuss their favorite breakfast foods. They create a graph of breakfast foods.
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Curated OER

Weather: Clouds

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover how clouds are formed and how they affect weather. After being read a book, they place air into a Ziploc bag and place it in the freezer. They discuss the results and take a walk outside to observe real clouds.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Understanding Key Details by Using Pancakes for Breakfast

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will be read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie DePaola in order to understand and describe people, places, things and events in a text. They will create a book by drawing or...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Make Words With Tomie Depaola

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Have students manipulate the letters of two mystery words from The Art Lesson and Now One Foot Now the Other to practice spelling 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. letter words.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Tomie De Paola's Biography

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource features a booklist for Tomie dePaola. There is a summary and a picture of each book.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide: The Legend of the Bluebonnet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "The Legend of the Bluebonnet" by Tomie dePaola. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 10: Rock Art

For Teachers 1st
This module engages students in designing their own rock art. Teachers will engage students in a shared texts, The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola and Mathematics from Many Cultures by Calvin Irons, James Burnett and...
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Curated OER

Writing fix.com: Noodle Alliteration: Strega Nona

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Front cover of the book Strega Nona by Tomie DePaola.
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Other

The Jim Henson Company

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jim Henson Company has provided a wonderful site regarding the company's productions and latest news. Follow links to detailed productions or even apply to work with the Jim Henson Company!
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Kids' Wings

Texas Bluebonnet Books: "26 Fairmont Avenue"

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you will find activities for Tomie dePaola's autobiography, "26 Fairmont Avenue."
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Plot

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify story elements, retell a story using story elements, and see how characters affect the plot. Lessons are based on the books...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Noodle Alliteration

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
This lesson allows students an opportunity to explore the dictionary and thesaurus to write creative alliterations about pasta after reading Jack Prelutsky's poem, "Spaghetti, Spaghetti."
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The Book Report

Kids reads.com: Authors

For Students 3rd - 5th
Click on the children's author link to view an article with biographical information, book titles, and the like.
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TES Global

Blendspace: rl.k.5 Recognize Common Types of Texts (e.g., Storybooks, Poems).

For Teachers K Standards
In this module, students will read two texts on the topic of pancakes and distinguish between the text that is a storybook and the text that is a poem.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Legend of the Persian Carpet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is used as the class reads The Legend of the Persian Carpet by Tomie dePaola. The lessons coincide with lesson from the Scholastic Literacy Place program. There are phonics, vocabulary,...
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Other

Tomie De Paola

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site is more for teachers than students. There are very few graphics, however the site does provide abundant information about the author and his work.

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