How To Eat an Oreo Cookie

In his sequencing learning exercise, students write a "how to" article telling how to eat a cookie. In this essay learning exercise, students write 3-5 sentences.

When choosing what foods to eat, there are a lot of factors to consider. To help make the decision a little easier, young learners work in small groups developing short plays, stories, or advertisements that address the different issues...

What if the Gingerbread Man was trying to catch you, rather than the other way around? Pupils can find out what happens by reading the story The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray and enrich their experience with the...

Here is a resource that was originally written as an enrichment guide for the stage adaptations of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Take a Mouse to School. It is absolutely full of fun activities that will inspire your young...

After completing a how-to paper and a story about about how to eat an Oreo cookie, your writers must record themselves following each step. This activity will allow them to practice writing a descriptive and instructional paper, as well...

Young chefs follow the set-by-step instructions of a recipe and use their prior knowledge of the body parts of a spider to make edible spider cookies.  After completing a pre-writing graphic organizer they then write a "how to" paragraph...

Sequence the events for the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." Learners listen to the story, brainstorm what kinds of food a mouse would like to eat, and create a story wheel that retells the story using their own selected foods....

If your class is reading A Day at the Apple Orchard by Megan Faulkner, be sure to use this guide for vocabulary in context. Go over the orchard-related terms (cycle, harvest, orchard, pollen, and ripen) before reading the story aloud....

Looking for a Halloween-themed vocabulary lesson? Study words in context using Zoe Hall's story It's Pumpkin Time, an excellent informational text for budding readers. The spooky suggested words are: buds, gather, hollow,...

Third graders celebrate as they complete reading, How to Eat Fried Worms. In this reading lesson, 3rd graders make "fried worms" with hot dogs and cornmeal after a completing the book. They document the activity by taking pictures which...