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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Postmodern Picture Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using "Black and White" by David Macaulay, this lesson plan demonstrates the use of picture books as learning tools in middle school. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teaching Science Through Picture Books: A Rainforest Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for five lessons that teach about the tropical rainforest using picture books such as "Welcome to the Green House" by Jane Yolen. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites...
Handout
Miami University

Miami University: Children's Picture Book Database (Abstracts)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource offers a large database with abstracts that describe numerous children's picture books.
Primary
Other

Media History Digital Library: Year Books (1916 1964)

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge collection of original year books and annuals produced by the movie industry and covering the period from 1916 to 1964. These document the evolution of the motion picture industry. Sub-categories of the year books include film...
Handout
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Little Explorers Picture Dictionary

For Students K - 1st Standards
Delve into this wonderfully illustrated and comprehensive picture dictionary. Research up to 1,905 illustrated entries. Each word is used in a meaningful sentence.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: My Family Traditions a Class Book and a Potluck Lunch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for eleven lessons that teach about family traditions and diversity using the book "Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia" by Carmen Lomas Garza. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links...
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Reading Response Activities for Geronimo Stilton Book Series

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Practice reading and comprehensions skills using the Geronimo Stilton book series. Choose activities from areas such as character studies, analysis of words and pictures, plot and making predictions. Reproducibles are included.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Coloured Picture Nursery Sunday Book

For Students 1st - 4th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of The Coloured Picture Nursery Sunday Book, a book of Bible stories for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Picture Story Book

For Students 6th - 8th
A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of A Picture Story Book by Josiah Westley, a nonfiction book for children.
Article
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Dream Animals by Emily Winfield Martin

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a book preview of the children's book Dream Animals by Emily Winfield Martin. It focuses on children's freedom to imagine.
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EL Education

El Education: Creature of the Tides

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This picture book was created by a high school junior from the Kanu o ka 'Aina New Public Charter School on The Big Island of Hawaii, a K - 12 Hawaiian-Immersion school. It was created for younger, elementary-aged students, as part of an...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Horse

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The Horse, a picture book for children.
Unknown Type
EL Education

El Education: Picture Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students create an alphabet book by writing and illustrating a word for each letter of the alphabet.
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EL Education

El Education: Book Trading Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This collection of trading cards was created by 5th and 6th graders at Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a choice-based fictional reading project. Each student selected a fiction book that he or she...
Website
Other

Classroom Clues: Children's Literature for Understanding Economics

For Teachers K - 1st
How do you teach obscure economic concepts to younger elementary students? One way is through children's literature. This site has a large variety of children's picture books that teach various economic concepts such as supply and...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Use Easy Nonfiction to Build Background Knowledge

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A Texas librarian shares his strategy of using nonfiction picture books to introduce new concepts to struggling adolescent readers and to build their background knowledge. Once students have been exposed to academic content in easy...
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
The picture book One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, written by Kate Smith Milway, takes place in Africa. Here in a Ghanan village, young Kojo cannot afford to go to school after the death of his father. His resourceful...
Lesson Plan
California State University

Origami

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students of all ages love learning origami. This lesson gives good outlines on how to set up a classroom for this challenging, yet fun art form. There is a great suggestion to incorporate the picture book "Sadako and the Thousand Paper...
Website
US Army Center

U.s. Army Center of Military History: Getting the Message Through: Civil War Organization and Training

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhaustive look at the Signal Corps, the legislation behind its formation, and its many uses during the Civil War. Find the equipment used, the code for the signal flags, and pictures of the troops. This is a very detailed and...
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Jazz Age 1919 1929: Prosperity and Popular Entertainment

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines the transformation of American culture and lifestyle through movies, sports and the automobile, particularly the Model T Ford.
Website
Other

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains an abundant amount of information on the thirty-eighth president of the United States, Gerald Ford. There are many pictures of Gerald Ford as well as a bibliography of books written about him.
Handout
Other

Arizona Sonora Desert Museum: Beetles

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive site delves into the life history, ecology, adaptation to desert life, and beetles as agents of decomposition.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Adjectives Around Us

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will make a photo story book using Flickr pictures.
Handout
Friesian School

Personal: Egyptian Royal Tombs of the New Kingdom

For Students 9th - 10th
At this personal site there are pictures and diagrams of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Site critiques the historical books and museum presentations on these ancient tombs.

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