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Travel Tags, Dr. Seuss

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this bookmarks instructional activity, students utilize a metal ring and a hole punch to write their name on each travel tag along with the title and author of the book they read and where it took place. Students draw a picture on the...
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Exchange Students

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss as a class the items they value and why. They read an article about the popularity of cellphones in Iraq. In groups, they work together to create a guide to their culture to share with others visiting their classroom....
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Expository --Writing

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, learners investigate the writing process, especially in expository articles. Students examine a piece written for a children's magazine about dinosaurs. Learners read about the steps taken to generate it:...
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Children's Media and Censorship

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students examine the point of censorship when dealing with Students. They explore essays by Stephen King.
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Children's March Teacher's Guide, Activity 1

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students study how political movements involve students as well as adults. They discover that students of all ages have the power to make a difference in the world.
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Graphing With Young Children: Math

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a template for a quality graph. They graph from scratch to match these criteria. They evaluate, in writing, the data represented in their newly created graph.
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Children's Books

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore daily dilemmas students face. They write and illustrate a story book dealing with one dilemma. Students write reviews of their books. They read their books to second grade students. Additional cross curriculum activities...
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Images of Children in Dorothea Lange's Photographs

For Teachers K - 5th
Students look carefully at two photographs by Dorothea Lange for elements of art and narrative content. They use descriptive language when speaking and writing about Lange's photographs of studenT lives.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Sahara, Vanishing Cultures

For Teachers K - 6th
Students read Sahara, Vanishing Cultures by Jan Reynolds. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study nomadic cultures. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library...
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Social Studies and Children's Literature

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write a journal in response to literature. The story that is read is about prairies. The subject of prairies becomes an object for research. The culminating activity is the making of a map where prairies exist in the United States.
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Dear Wife & Children Every One

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the struggle that Kansans had over the slavery issue. They read a letter from John Brown to his family, and write a newspaper article about the Battle of Osawatomie from John Brown's perspective.
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Opening Doors to Social Studies with Children's Literature

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read a story about immigration, listen to songs about America and explore the history of their ancestors. They discuss how immigration creates a multicultural country. Pupils create a collage of the people in America. ...
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Dear Wife and Children Everyone

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the issue of slave vs. free states. They explore the actions and personal commitment of John Brown and write a newspaper article about the Battle of Osawatomie from John Brown's perspective.
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Harry Potter Alive and Well In the Sorcerer's Stone

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students brainstorm author's purpose, and use their imagination to draw pictures that illustrate what the purpose is. In this literature and writing lesson plan, student's use Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone as a guide from which...
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Research - Roald Dahl

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars listen to one of Dahl's poems or complete one of his books. They then research using the official Roald Dahl website and navigate some of the areas to familiarize themselves with some of the content to enable them to...
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Writing Book Reviews

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore new authors and genres they might like to read. The understand the ingredients of a book review. They write book reviews using persuasive language to recommend books.
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All Kinds of Books

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students engage in a variety of book making activities to foster creativity, literacy, and fine-motor skills. In this book-making lesson, students author a book about the days of the week, illustrating the activities that they...
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Quick As A Cricket

For Teachers K - 1st
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of reading a story and then they reenact it while performing a pantomime. They answer questions related to the reading and then children move throughout the class imitating...
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The Land and Other Books: Mildred Taylor

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read summaries of the books written by the author Mildred Taylor. In this summaries lesson plan, students read the summaries of 6 books and answer discussion questions about them after they read them.
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Harriet The Spy

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the style of diary writing as its own genre of literature. They read Harriet The Spy in order to have a text for this literature study. Students use the skill of prediction to preview the story, and then...
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A Study of China with Lon Po Po, a Chinese Little Red-riding Hood

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study and identify the elements of a story such as. setting, character, plot, and theme, using two versions of the folktale Little Red-Riding Hood. They use the Internet to locate more information on the author Ed Young.
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Pass It On: African American Poetry to Inspire Writing

For Teachers K - 8th
Pupils read through poems in a book called Pass it On. There are 19 poems from famous African American poets contained in the book. The poems are specialized for children and after the children have learned about the author and about the...
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Story Bears

For Teachers 1st
First graders study different teddy bears featured in stories. In this lesson on popular story characters, 1st graders are provided information on the authors who wrote famous stories with bears as the main character. Students create a...
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Home Child History

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Language Arts learning exercise, students read about Canadian history related to the novel Home Child. Students read about the story of Canada's Home children, which began in the mid-1800's.

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