Starfall
Starfall: Word Hunt
Help write a story about a rabbit in a garden by choosing words to describe the rabbit and to tell what action the rabbit likes to do. Then watch these choices come to life in the cartoon illustrations.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plans: Using Personal Connections to Understand Emotions
A lesson plan in which younger students draw on prior experiences that made them happy or sad, build two-sided masks, work with Venn diagrams, and connect personally with the emotions conveyed by poems in The Way I Feel by Janan Cain...
Starfall
Starfall: It's Fun to Read: Tongue Twisters
These four tongue twisting stories can be read or listened to.
Starfall
Starfall: All About Me!
Use this interactive site for a fun way to use picture clues to help recognize words. Two of the activities are available for free.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Relationships Between Illustrations and Texts Worksheet
When we are reading nonfiction or fiction we can often use a point of reference that drives us to make better conclusions. Illustrations are the perfect media to achieve this. This can help the reader attribute value to a setting, a...
ABCya
Abc Ya: Story Maker
Create your own story using the tools on this site. You can add a title page, type your story, and illustrate it using the paint tools. The story can then be saved and printed.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Elements of a Story
This resource provides a lesson plan to teach students about the elements of a story.
Other
Goodnight Stories: The Picnic
A combination of pictures and words creates a story about a family that goes on a picnic together.
Other
Goodnight Stories: The Sea
A combination of pictures and words creates a story about a man who goes scuba diving in the ocean.
Other
Goodnight Stories: The Trip
A combination of words and pictures creates a story about a little girl who rides a bus to the mall with her mother to get new shoes and a dress.
Other
The Digital Scoop: Drawing and Writing Fun With Abc Ya Story Maker
This article describes how to use the Story Maker app on the ABCYa website. A sample of student writing about making a snowman is provided.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Cause and Effect With "A Bad Case of Stripes" Day One
Young scholars will really be writing to sources with this lesson. They will write about cause and effects in a multi-flow map and then write sentences to explain the cause and effect relationships in this story.