Explore the Moon with the Berenstain Bears

Explore storyboards with your pre-reader using the familiar story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." They look at pictures as you read the captions in a comic book style. At the end, they try to finish the story based on a resolution...

More of a worksheet than a complete lesson plan, this resource includes several pre-reading and post-reading discussion prompts for The Bernstein Bears and Too Much Teasing. The prompts on this worksheet are designed to help young...

Scholars work collaboratively to compose a found poem from one of their favorite stories. With a finished product in hand, class members form a circle and perform their work for an audience by taking turns reciting one line till the poem...

Explore sequencing with first and second graders. As a group, they listen to the story Berlioz the Bear by Jan Brett, and then generate important events from the story as the teacher writes them on the board. They also get to cut out a...

Capture the engagement of young readers with this collection of activities based on Jane Yolen's book, Owl Moon. Following a shared reading of this children's story, the class explores the geography of the American Northeast, creates...

Help younger learners understand comparing and contrasting through the exploration of bears. They will complete an attribute chart for a black bear and the bear of their choice. Then they complete a Venn Diagram for the two bears with...

Students use the book, The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze, to explore spending, collecting, opportunity cost, saving, and speculating.

Learners explore the seasons by reading Old Bear by Kevin Henkes. In this seasons instructional activity, students discover the colors that coordinate with each season. Learners color worksheets from each season with the correct colors.

Students complete a variety of activities related to the book "The Bear, the Bat, and the Dove." They discuss the characteristics of a good friend and sing a friendship song, and answer story comprehension questions. Students then...

Students explore the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In this Goldilocks and the Three Bears instructional activity, students study aspects of reading through the story with companion rhymes. Cross curricular activities are...