Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Drumming from the Heart

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete a craft activity using recyclable containers and read a story to a younger child. In this service lesson, students read the story 'The Drum' and do a service project retelling the story and making a drum from recyclable...
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Storybook: Henry and the Sugarbugs

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
ABCya! presents its first online storybook for the classroom. Our first story is called Henry and the Sugarbugs, an original work by Michelle Tocci. The story is about a boy learning to brush his teeth. A great book to share with the...
Unit Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Making Sense!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Making Sense! is a colorful, engaging picture/storybook book that introduces students to the brain and the five senses as they solve mystery picture puzzles. Download the text or watch it in slideshow format.
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.
Unit Plan
Other

Lt Scotland: Storybook Web

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Stories from Scotland! This website highlights a collection of children's stories by four famous Scottish authors. Play games, listen to read-alouds, complete a cloze activity, and listen to how the authors got the ideas for their stories.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Our Garden by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Our Garden by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (c1885), a picture book story about the seasons and the garden.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Princess Belle Etoile by Walter Crane

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Princess Belle-Etoile by Walter Crane (c1875), a picture book storybook.
eBook
Starfall

Starfall: Plays, Fiction, Nonfiction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An index of links to six fiction storybooks, eight nonfiction books, and three plays. Each book has pictures and audio that will allow students to click to hear sentences or individual words as they read along. Links to three different...
Activity
Primary Games

Primary Games: Jigmania: Snow White

For Students K - 1st
This is a picture story book about Snow White with puzzle pages to rearrange into the picture. It offers three levels of difficulty (number of puzzle pieces).
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle by Oliver W. Holmes

For Students 1st - 9th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle by Oliver W. Holmes (1883), a children's picture book of the story of Bunker Hill.
eBook
Library of Congress

Classic Books: The Rocket Book

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Turn the pages of this scanned copy of The Rocket Book by Peter Newell. Read along with the story and look at the pictures as a rocket is shot off in the basement of an apartment building and travels through twenty-one floors before it...
Primary
Library of Congress

Library of Congress: Classic Books: W. W. Denslow: Denslow's Mother Goose

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Turn the pages of this scanned copy of Denslow's Mother Goose by W. W. Denslow. Look at the pictures and read the collection of forty-two nursery rhymes.
eBook
Library of Congress

Book Turner: A Apple Pie

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Turn the pages of this scanned copy of A Apple Pie by Kate Greenaway. Read along with the story and look at the pictures of this alphabet book about making and eating an apple pie.
eBook
NASA

Nasa: Classroom Activity: Our Very Own Star: The Sun

For Students K - 1st Standards
This PDF storybook for children tells the story of the sun. The easy-to-understand text and graphics make it a useful classroom tool for younger students.
eBook
Other

Magic Keys: Children's Storybooks Online: "Kitty Wants a Box"

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an illustrated, online children's story about a cats looking for the perfect box. Links to other illustrated, online children's stories are available. Java is required.
eBook
LM Digital Media

Kids World Fun: Mikolay and Julia Meet the Fairies by Magda M. Olchawska [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st
Can Mikolay and Julia save the fairies' forest using their magic? Read this storybook to see what happens and what you can do for the earth.
eBook
Starfall

Starfall: A House in a Tree

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an online children's picture book for early readers. It includes story word list.
Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

Math/science Nucleus: Famous Earthquakes Animation

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This animation reviews three famous historical earthquakes in a storybook format with pictures and animations, told from the perspective of three girls.
Activity
Other

Mixing Mouse Tracks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This art idea is based off the children's book "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stoll Walsh. A fun way to introduce young learners to the primary and secondary colors through simple mixing exercises.
Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

Math/science Nucleus: Cloud Poem Animation

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This animation, in a storybook format, tells the various types of clouds (stratus, cirrus, nimbus) through a picture poem.