A Photo Essay

After reading Loree Leedy's There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me, kids create and illustrate their own poems that convey the meaning of an idiom. The poems are then transferred into Shutterfly's Photo...

Close out the school year with a look back at a specific event. You provide individuals with photos of themselves, and each pupil fills out the graphic organizer here to prepare for writing a paragraph about the memory depicted in the...

Explore the beauty of Eric Carle's art and stories with an enchanting set of lessons. Featuring Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? as well as Papa, Please Get the Moon For Me and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the resource provides...

Students write a group story incorporating six words from The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch. In this story writing lesson, students create visual stories in groups using Microsoft Photo Story 3. Students discover vocabulary words...

Origami is an excellent way to combine Japanese culture, art, and geometric shapes into one engaging lesson! Scholars begin by listening to the story Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes and learn the origin of the word origami,...

Fourth graders retell a story using a photo story format and studying the sequence of events. In this sequence lesson, 4th graders watch a photo story about a fairy tale. Students then complete a KWL chart about photo stories. Students...

Elementary writers will create short stories with their classmates' help, publishing the books using computer programs. The first learner writes a sentence to start the story, and each classmate adds a sentence to the story. The original...

Using Movie Maker, sixth graders make an eight frame movie based on a story they have written. They choose music clips, select pictures from PowerPoint, and make their movie. The lesson should take about ten days to complete.

Students create a photo story.  In this visual arts lesson, students choose a sentence about a specific topic, create a picture to go with their sentence, and take a digital photo of their picture.  The teacher compiles all of the...

Third graders explore cause and effect relationships. In this reading comprehension instructional activity, 3rd graders read the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and discuss the cause and effect relationships in the book. Students use...