HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
In this K-2 instructional activity, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her students.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Character Education Read Alouds
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Patty Lovell's book, Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. Students will participate in listening to other stories with the same message and then will determine the "big...
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: A Farewell to Arms
Guide to Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with activities, assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show, with...
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea
Guide to A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin with information on historical context, discussion questions, and additional resources on the book. A teachers guide includes ten lessons designed to lead classes through the book with...
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Longfellow: Poetry
Guide to the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including historical context, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with discussion activities, homework assignments, and essay topics.
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment of the Arts: The Big Read: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Guide to Leo Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich, with historical information, author biographies, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Big Town by Ring Lardner
Read the full text of the humorous novel "The Big Town" by Ring Lardner about a small town couple who inherit a fortune and move to New York.