This lesson focuses on the elements that makes a book popular and provides links to lists of Goodreads popular books and NPR's "Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels."

Violet is making a pattern of colored cereal for a necklace but keeps eating some until only one color is left. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.

See how to make a snack of celery, peanut butter, and raisins, often called 'ants on a log.' Includes audio narration in 18 additional languages with text in English.

In this teacher-led activity on this site, students work together in the classroom creating a book full of rhymes.

"How to Make a Wave", a novel by Lisa Hurst-Archer, is about an adolescent girl struggling to come to terms with a scar on her face and the absence of her mother. This extensive teacher's guide includes chapter summaries with...

While creating their own cloud book, students will identify and classify the different cloud types and the weather conditions that they bring.

Learn about some of the flags around the world and see if you can make one. Includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.

After investigating the lunar phases as part of the Foss Kit on the Sun and the Moon, an additional activity would be to make a moon flip book to illustrate the different phases. Young scholars will cut out pre-printed pictures of the...

Tikatok is a tool for creating storybooks using your own text and images. It is free to join, but there are fees when you order a completed book. E-books can be downloaded fairly cheaply. Printed copies cost more. The value in the site...

Tikatok is a tool for creating storybooks using your own text and images. It is free to join, but there are fees when you order a completed book. E-books can be downloaded fairly cheaply. Printed copies cost more. The value in the site...

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) explains to process for making book proposals.

This unique book style would suit any visual art or writing project and be a fancy way to display your work. The directions with illustrations are concise and simple to follow.

What makes a book a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information? Or does it have to do with paper, binding, font, ink, its weight in your hands, the smell of the pages? To answer these questions, Julie Dreyfuss...

An explanation of the Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition Model (SAMR) Model. The author uses an analogy of making coffee at home as opposed to having one at Starbucks, and compares this to reading a book versus reading...

In Runaway, a novel by Becky Citra, a boy must make some difficult decisions about whether to help another boy that he has seen steal but who is also being physically abused. The story is set in the 1830s in Upper Canada. This teacher's...

These simple journal directions open the door for creating some unique and innovative handcrafted books. All it requires is a stick, rubber bands, hole punch, and paper.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson utilizing the book No Roses for Harry! by Gene Zionin in which students make a prediction and then support it with details from the text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...

Develop language and literacy skills by recalling important events in one's life to create a book. Illustrate and dictate favorite memories.

Simple instructions on how to create your own tunnel book. These fun books create the illusion of depth and would be great for book report projects.

This site is based on the book, One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, by Katie Smith Milway. Learn how small loans, called microfinance, can make an impact on people's lives. There are lesson plans, games, and interviews...

Students make purposeful choices for their reading materials, thinking about their reasons for reading a book and using strategies to match books to their abilities.

With this resource, students can learn how to make a variety of handmade books with simple paper folding techniques. All directions are easy to follow and come in a printable pdf format.

Selected (7) reading passages (grades 9-11) to pair with the novel "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. George and Lennie are two migrant workers trying to stay employed and out of trouble. Their dream of having their own farm may be...

Hands-on activity shows you how to make a flip book of the moon using close observation skills and simple materials. Includes animation that lets you view the moon in action through its different phases, worksheets, and illustrated...