Deep down, everyone is the same. Discuss the similarities and differences between people across cultures with a series of reading activities based on the beautiful story and illustrations in Whoever You Are by Mem Fox.

Passages from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart provide the text for a QAR: Question Answer Response comprehension activity. Readers respond to right there, think and search, on your own, and author and you questions.  ...

Accompany a reading of First Come the Zebra written and illustrated by Lynne Barasch with a teacher's guide equipped with before reading, vocabulary, and after reading activities. Additional social studies,...

Students identify one advantage and one disadvantage to open air markets in Africa. students create a mural on paper to be hung on the classroom wall. Small groups make a stand of something that would be sold at an open air market.

Information about and analysis of the drawings of Black Hawk, a Lakota spiritual leader who produced a series of drawings in the 1880s that document Lakota customs and ceremonies.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a group of girls called The Precious Metals who formed a bicycle club. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.