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Bookmaking

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make and assemble parts of a book, read and respond to classmates' work, read aloud from their own book of poetry. They use the writing process and written language skills, participation in fine arts experiences, appropriate and...
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Curated OER

Spiders

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete a variety of center activities to study spider characteristics and facts. They solve math problems, identify spider body parts, and study vocabulary words to use in creative writing about spiders.
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Curated OER

Make Way for Ducklings

For Teachers 1st
First graders use skills to collect, organize, and interpret data. They compare and contrast two stories, Make Way for Ducklings and Chibi: A True Story From Japan. Students create a duckling.
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Curated OER

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss the weather and how it changes during the different seasons. They listen to a read aloud of Judy Barrett's, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. They write and illustrate a news article about the weather that is found...
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Curated OER

The Very Clumsy Click Beetle

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders determine what it means to be clumsy before listening to Eric Carle's, The Very Clumsy Click Beetle. They examine the part where the click beetle does flips before drawing three frames that show the beetle flipping. For...
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Curated OER

Dinosaur Designs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine facts that can be found in nonfiction books. They listen to a read aloud of Patrick's Dinosaur, with time before the end for student predictions. They make dinosaur t-shirts using facts from the book.
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Curated OER

A Day During Colonial Times

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in read aloud activities of three books about life in Colonial times. They compare their life to that of children of Colonial times using a Venn diagram. They draw a picture and write about what a day in the...
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Curated OER

Let's Read and Read!

For Teachers K
Pupils discover how to hold their mouths to form the /o/ sound and that it may be hidden in different words. They say /o/ and then repeat a tongue twister that contains many /o/ words and practice writing it on primary lined paper. They...
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Curated OER

Bon Voyage - Literature Travel Unit

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders locate and interpret information about the culture of another country using multi-media tools. Students read and interpret literature about characters and cultures from a foreign country. Students create a travel guide...
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Curated OER

Opening Doors to Social Studies with Children's Literature

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read a story about immigration, listen to songs about America and explore the history of their ancestors. They discuss how immigration creates a multicultural country. Pupils create a collage of the people in America. ...
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Curated OER

The Shark Callers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students engage in a layered curriculum do some of the following: Analysis of Andy and Kaleku's lives. Include their lives, family, culture, traditions, and the parallelism in each other's lives.
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Curated OER

GENRE STUDY: BIOGRAPHY

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write a poem that relates to your person. They make a poster advertising your book/person. Students find a website that relates to your book/person, print out the information and be prepared to share it with class.
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Curated OER

Region, History, and the Novel: Is Resistance Futile?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read a novel related to their geographical area and "Gone With The Wind". Using the first novel, they use the internet to research one aspect from it and relate it to their location today. They create a Hyperstudio or PowerPoint...
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Curated OER

Candy Land Math

For Teachers K
Students order numbers and sets of objects from 0 through 10 and organize and interpret information collected from the immediate environment. They read and interpret graphs usin real objects and the computer. Finally, students sort a...
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Curated OER

When were you selfless today?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, after reading and discussing the poem, Selflessness of Mind, by Joe Gutknecht, discuss specific recent acts of selflessness and then write a first draft paper on selflessness. They compare/contrast their own lives to the poem...
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Wemberly Worried

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Pupils read the book Wemberly Worried and complete language arts and math activities that go along with the book. In this language arts and math lesson plan, students read the book given and do activities that include connect the dots, a...
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Curated OER

Hydraulics and Pneumatics

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in an experiment using syringes.  In this physics lesson students demonstrate the movement and principles of pneumatics and hydraulics.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Wild About Authors and Illustrators

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students learn about the roles of authors and illustrators through games and book-writing. Students will have an opportunity to act out the roles of illustrators and authors. They will...
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Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Video Interviews With Top Children's Authors and Illustrators

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A large collection of video interviews, along with biographical profiles, with well-known children's authors.
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Handout
Reading Is Fundamental

Reading Is Fundamental: Meet the Authors and Illustrators: Pam Munoz Ryan

For Students 3rd - 6th
This site includes an interview with Pam Munoz Ryan, a famous author of many children's picture books and historical fiction books. Read reviews of some of Pam Munoz Ryan's books by chidren.
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Professional Doc
Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy: The Roles of the Author and the Illustrator in Literature

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This video resource explains the roles that authors and illustrators have in literature.
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Other

Author and Illustrator Brian Lies

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about Brian Lies, an author and illustrator of children's books. Find a list of books he has written and/or illustrated and learn a bit about his life.
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Author Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about an author study. Students will find a multi-step project to help students effectively investigate an author during research. Reproducible graphic organizers are provided.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Author Study Toolkit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explains the benefits of doing an author study and how to do one with a class. Includes lists of resources and ideas for culminating projects.

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