Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Elephant's Child [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Rudyard Kipling's children's book, The Elephant's Child, is provided on these pages. Nine character roles are needed in this activity.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales
Using international folklore as subject matter, lead your students in a unit to research literary forms and foreign countries. There is a printout available for instruction and assessment.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reading, Writing, Haiku Hiking! Class Book of Picturesque Poems
Contains plans for five lessons about haiku using "One Leaf Rides the Wind" by Celeste Davidson Mannis as an introduction and model. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Contextual Clues
Strategies to help students recognize the meaning of words through contextual clues provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as C(2)QU (See Two Cue You), PReP (Prereading Plan),...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Can You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing
Contains plans for four 40-minute lessons that teach persuasive writing to elementary students. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Flicking With Force
Balls of varying weights are used to discover the results of force applied to an object.
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Adding Up, Taking Away Activity Plan
In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will practice and explore strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems, such as using counters and rulers, performing mental math, and drawing pictures. As children encounter...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Life in a Native Kentucky Village
The scenes in this rollover interactive depict typical village life of Native American Indians of the Mississippian culture. The village was occupied from 1100 AD until about 1350 AD.
McGill University
Mc Gill University: Canadian Biodiversity: Ecozones: Boreal Shield
The Boreal Shield runs from Alberta to Newfoundland. This is a brief, concise description of the location, climate, geology and flora and fauna. It includes a collection of images of the landscape as well as those of animals and birds...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Catastrophes of Apostrophic Proportions
An interactive exercise where students practice apostrophe use with plural nouns, singular and plural possessives, possessive pronouns, and irregular plural nouns. In each of the six sentences, students choose the correct apostrophe...
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Comma Rules
Use this site for recognizing when to use commas. Includes examples.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Little Minister
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Little Minister by James Matthew Barrie, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Pets and Playmates
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of Pets and Playmates by Edric Vredenburg, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Through the Copse
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of Through the Copse by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Twilight Land
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, a book of stories for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A World Beneath the Waters
A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of A World Beneath the Waters by G. Bancks, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Aunt Lizzie's Talks About Remarkable Fishes
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Aunt Lizzie's Talks about Remarkable Fishes by S. E. Scholes, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Little Clara
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Little Clara by Anna Bache, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A Ramble in Autumn
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of A Ramble in Autumn by Charles Alexander Johns, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Fairy Godmothers
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication of The Fairy Godmothers by Alfred Gatty, a fiction book for children
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Observing Eye
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of The Observing Eye by Anne Wright, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Tales for the Young
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of Tales for the Young by Emma Catherine Embury, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Wounded Boy, and Other Stories
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of The Wounded Boy, and Other Stories by T. S. Arthur, a book of stories for children.