Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: Counting Sheep
Have fun counting sheep and parts of their bodies in this book. Includes audio narration in 12 additional languages with text in English.
DLTK
Kidzone: Gingerbread Man Theme Unit
This five day theme unit for the Gingerbread Man is full of great ideas. It is suitable for children in preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary. From Language Arts to Math, this site has it all!
History is Fun
Jan Brett: Home Page a Great Place for Ideas
Children's author Jan Brett's website is interactive and has a wide variety of resources for teachers and students. A free email newsletter is available as well as book lists, coloring pages and activities. Her activities page contains...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Bridging Literature and Mathematics
Contains plans for five 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to write about math-related, informational books such as "Actual Size" (Jenkins, 2004) and "If You Hopped Like a Frog" (Schwartz, 1999). Students use books...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Stem Literacy
Learn about how to strengthen literacy, inquiry, and problem-solving skills, and how to connect kids with high-quality nonfiction and informational books. Provides videos, articles for parents and for teachers, webcasts for teachers, and...
EL Education
El Education: Mohammed and the Number Genie
Students write and illustrated children's books explaining math concepts through fiction stories.
Scholastic
Scholastic Lesson Plan: Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich..
This multipart lesson plan the cost of opportunities when you have limited resources. It uses the hilarious children's book, "Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" by Judith Viorst to drive the lesson home.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Dr. Seuss Lesson Plans
What is your favorite Dr. Seuss story? Web English Teacher may be offering you resources to teach it right here! Also contains links to biographical information.
Other
Erikson Institute: Halloween and Animal Fun While Exploring Big, Bigger
Here are two books to help students understand the concept of big, bigger, and biggest. Thinking about what big and bigger means helps children build the mathematical concept of measurement, particularly the big idea that all measurement...
Other
K 3 Learning pages.com: 100th Day of School
This site features several links for kindergarten through third grade resources for the 100th Day of School. These links include activities, songs, poems and more.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: Violet Counts Cookies
Violet must resist eating a cookie before she finishes counting them. Includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape Hunt Activity Plan
Calling all Shape Detectives! In this weeklong adventure, the children will explore and search for basic shapes as they go on a shape hunt. They will describe, match, sort and compose a variety of two-dimensional shapes, and create a...
University at Buffalo
University at Buffalo: Maya Angelou Faq
A website from the University at Buffalo on the life and accomplishments of writer Maya Angelou, "Maya Angelou FAQ" is organized into the following sections: "a mini-biography," "a mini-bibliography," and "Maya Angelou Links."
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Clever Santa
Help Santa figure out how many puzzles and books to leave for the children of this family. Once you figure it out you can check the solution.