Curated OER
Pennies of My Life Part II
Youngsters write and construct their own autobiographies based on The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis. They engage in pre-writing steps, narrative writing, and peer editing. This is the second part of a two-part project lesson.
Roald Dahl
The Twits - The Furniture Goes Up
Work gets done faster when people work as a team. The ninth installment of an 11-lesson unit designed to accompany The Twits by Roald Dahl combines character education with research skills and creative writing activities. The lesson ends...
Penguin Books
An Educator's Guide to The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
A lot of secrecy shrouded the creation of the atomic bomb. Readers uncover some of that secrecy using an educator's guide for the novel The Green Glass Sea. Three weeks of lesson plans feature discussion questions and reading...
Curated OER
Satire and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Does Mark Twain’s satire become sarcasm and does he cross the line of propriety in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? As an introduction of satire, class members view an excerpt from The Daily Show and discuss Stewart's use of this...
Learning to Give
The Beginning of the Storm
Introduce readers to Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry with a lesson that sets the context for the novel. Class members research the bigotry in Mississippi during the Great Depression and identify examples in the story of how...
Learning to Give
What Are Your Thoughts?
The varying responses of the characters in Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry to the discrimination they experience or perpetrate provides readers with an opportunity to not only examine the feelings of the characters but to...
Curated OER
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Primary learners will embrace diversity and celebrate multiculturalism through these engaging activities. Which include reading the story Martin Luther King and singing the song "A Man Named King." They will also explore the concept of...
Curated OER
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Students complete various activities related to the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." They participate in a shared reading activity, read and write a sentence for each day of the week, draw a picture of the caterpillar eating one of...
Curated OER
Selecting the Tap: Water Safety
Examine water as a scarce natural resource instead of taking it for granted. Middle schoolers identify the traits of potable water, and research local water sources to determine if they are impaired or not.
Curated OER
How Do You Spend Your Money?
Fifth graders examine ways to save and spend money. They look at ways that people earn, save, and spend money using chapters from Tom Birdseye's Tarantula Shoes. They add and subtract decimals to fill in a worksheet entitled, "Is It a...
World Wildlife Fund
Graphs and Charts
A two-part worksheet incorporating bar graphs and pie charts, young mathematicians can practice their graphing skills. Pupils answer questions using graphs and charts but are also challenged to create their own using a given set of data.
Novelinks
The Devil’s Arithmetic: QAR Strategy
Asking questions about the text is an important way for kids to become critical readers. Use a QAR activity based on The Devil's Arithmetic to help learners decipher between questions that are right there, between the author and the...
Penguin Books
Up Close: Ella Fitzgerald
A reading of Tanya Lee Stones' biography of Ella Fitzgerald lets middle schoolers get up close and personal with the First Lady of Jazz. Stone recounts details of Fitzgerald's life from her early days through her experiences as a teenage...
Penguin Books
An Educators' Guide to Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Books can help teens understand complex global issues. A helpful educator's guide introduces readers to what it's like to be a refugee. Lesson components for the novel Shades of Gray include an anticipation guide and writing and research...
Joel Michel Studies
The Swiss Family Robinson: Novel Study
What items would most people want to have with them if they were stranded on a desert island? Using the novel study for The Swiss Family Robinson, scholars attempt to answer the question from their own perspectives. They also explore...
Weber County Library
Weber Reads: The Adventures of Huckleberry FInn
A 32-page instructional pack contains eight lesson plans for use with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Lessons include an examination of the role of superstition in the novel, Twain's use of satire, and a discussion of the...
Curated OER
Bat Maze
For this bat maze worksheet, students help a young girl on a broomstick find her way through a maze of bats by tracing a path in this puzzle.
Curated OER
Chew on This
In this healthy eating worksheet, students read an excerpt on eating healthy and understanding the risks of eating fast food. The packet is a 13 page cross-circular project involving a number of subjects all pertaining to the Chew on...
Curated OER
Chew on This: Worksheets 1 - 5
In this fast food activity, students answer 21 questions pertaining to the fast food industry. It appears as though they should read the Chew on This article, but it is not included in this packet. This packet contains worksheets 1...
Curated OER
My Secret Unicorn
In this unicorn activity learning exercise, students complete 6 worksheets all containing unicorn activities. These include: coloring, doing a maze, drawing, completing a word search and a connect the dots activity.
Curated OER
Fizzwiggling First Lines Quiz!
In this first lines worksheet, students participate in matching fifteen book titles written by Roald Dahl to their fifteen opening lines by drawing a line from one to the other.
Curated OER
Jumbo Roald Dahl Quiz
For this Roald Dahl quiz worksheet, students complete a 15 question multiple choice quiz about the works of Roald Dahl. Included are detailed questions about events in his books.
Curated OER
Fab Facts About Ice-Cream
For this ice-cream worksheet, students read an ice-cream facts passage and respond to 6 fill in the blank questions to decide how to create an ice-cream sundae.
Curated OER
Wonka Wisdom
For this Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory worksheet, students answer ten multiple choice comprehension questions about this book by Roald Dahl.
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