My House

Young readers explore independent reading strategies. They make self-to-text connections while looking at the  illustrations of Take a Tour of my House. Everyone reads the book independently, looking for word chunks if they need to...

Reinforce concepts and bring awareness to important environmental concerns with activities designed to work alongside Dr. Seuss's The Lorax. Scholars take part in counting, drawing, character building, experimenting, and more! 

Engage young historians in learning about America's sixteenth president with this fun Reader's Theater script. The second play in this series puts a modern spin on learning about history, involving a game show where three contestants try...

Read The Napping House and describe the visual characteristics of the illustrations.  In this perspective instructional activity, learners identify color elements.  They recognize that the text is repetitive and find patterns in the...

Enhance your foreign language students' skills to describe a house. After reading a description of rooms in a house in their target language, they work to answer corresponding questions correctly. Additionally, they view a PowerPoint...

Students listen to a book, "This is My House" and sing a song to the tune of Home on the Range. They use the internet to view examples of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture. Students take pictures of architectural details of their homes...

Learners participate in a variety of emergent and early-literacy activities based on a "friendship" theme. Learners listen to the book Do You Want to Be My Friend by Eric Carle, then echo read, choral read, and independently read...

Learners participate in a variety of activities surrounding the book, Gingerbread Baby, by Jan Brett. They can create a house, a map, ornaments, and their own books. Additionally, they can draw, paint, or write out attributes for each...

Students explore the Navajo and their art. They discuss the location of where the Navajo lived, their cultural life, housing and sandpainting. Students create their own sandpainting using their own ideas. They draw their own image on...

In need of a fun activity that incorporates culture and spacial reasoning? Learners can use these instructions to construct a three-dimensional model of a traditional Japanese tea house. Instructions are simple and would complement a...