Boxcar Children Lesson 9- Fun in the Cherry Orchard

The flowers danced to the tune of the howling wind. Wait, how do flowers dance? Learners write their own examples of personification using The Boxcar Children novel study. They answer reading comprehension questions and complete language...

Visit the Magic Treehouse and take your class on a trip through time with a reading of the children's book Mummies in the Morning. Using the story to spark an investigation into Egyptian culture, this literature unit engages...

Explore the impact a narrator's point of view has on a story with a reading of the children's book, Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. Written in four different voices, the story is told and retold from different perspectives to...

Bring together the subjects of math and English language arts with this collection of fun resources based on the children's book Over in the Grasslands. Intended to build the number sense of young mathematicians, these grasslands-themed...

Celebrate the arrival of winter with a reading of Jack Ezra Keats' book The Snowy Day. Engaging children by asking them about their own experiences in the snow, the teacher goes on to read the story aloud before asking the class to draw...

Here is lesson 9 in an extensive series on teaching and learning ASL. Discuss code switching, numerical incorporation, and noun based vocabulary. Then, click on the blue links to view ASL in action. Each link takes you to a printable...

Get young learners on their feet and moving around with this fun activity for the children's book Over in the Meadow by Ezra Jack Keats. During an initial reading of the story, the teacher stops and introduces students to a series of...

Budding poets brainstorm ideas for writing a free-verse poem. Once their topic has been established, writers list expressive words and phrases they can use to evoke emotion and paint a picture in the mind's eye. 

In this reading instructional activity, students answer 7 comprehension questions about Chapter 9 of Boxcar Children. The first words of each answer are provided in italics to help students respond in a complete sentence.

Learning how to write for a specific, target audience is a valuable skill to acquire. This clever lesson has aspiring writers create original stories that are geared toward very young children. They illustrate their stories, put them in...