This is a PDF lesson. After reading/listening to selections of "poems for two voices" from the book Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman and after students compare and contrast two items, they compose a poem for two voices in the "voice" of...

Lesson designed to introduce maps and the cardinal directions. After listening to the teacher read aloud or tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood, students retell the story and use cutouts of landmarks and arrows to create a map of...

Lesson that helps students understand map concepts. After listening to the teacher read aloud each chapter of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, students discuss the book and use a map and general direction terms to describe the...

After listening to More Parts by Tedd Arnold read aloud, intermediate school students distinguish between literal and figurative meaning by using a graphic organizer, playing an online game, and incorporating an idiom into their writing.

In this K-2 lesson, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her students.