A Whale of a Tale

If friendship were a soup, what ingredients would be in it? As part of a study of Marcus Pfister's Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale, kids engage in a series of friendship-themed activities using materials contained in this richly...

Combine art, math, language arts, drama, and delicious Jell-o with a instructional activity based on the African folktale Anansi and the Tug o' War. Kids make predictions and discuss plot points of the story before joining in...

In this set of phonics worksheets, students will circle and write 4 words that have the long a sound, choose the best long a words to complete 4 sentences, use "wh" to complete 4 words, circle objects in a picture that have the long a...

In this literacy learning exercise, students look for the words to complete each blank word. They focus upon the given blends for each of the six pages.

The children's book Humphrey the Lost Whale tells an amazing tale of a community joining together for a common cause. Read this book with your class, making connections between the events in the story and personal experiences of young...

Some problems are so big it takes an entire community to solve them. So was the case in the children's book Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story by Wendy Tokuda and Richard Hall. This primary grade lesson uses a class read-aloud of this...

Learners explore phonemes in a word. They explore the vowel a_e=/A/. Students identify words with the /A/ sound. They read words with the a_e=/A/ and read Jake's Tale. Learners identify words with the a_e spelling from the story.

Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the legends of Native Americans that are found in the Northwest Region. They conduct research using a variety of resources and create puppets and a stage for the acting of one of the...

After a demonstration by the teacher of how to combine sentences, groups read a story loaded with short, choppy sentences and work together to combine sentences to create a more interesting tale. They record their version on a...

Students summarize a selected piece of text nonfiction text. After reviewing the correct way to read silently, students read a nonfiction article. They write a summary paragraph using the three step process outlined by the instructor. ...