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Bag It

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Young scholars create a book report in a bag. They include items that explain the elements of the story and share them with the class.
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Creating with Publisher

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a book cover using Microsoft Publisher.  In this computer publishing lesson, students learn how to use the program Microsoft Publisher.  Students experiment with fonts, styles, formats and clip art.  Students use what...
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Curated OER

Who Took the Cookies

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students find the missing cookies. In this language arts lesson, students solve the mystery of who is taking the cookies from the cookie jar. Students are read several books with the same mystery of cookies being taken from the jar.
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Cover To Cover

For Teachers K
Young learners are introduced to the most basic elements and concepts of a book with this pre-kindergarten language arts lesson plan. Through modeling and discussion, the whole class explores how to read a book and how to determine if...
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Curated OER

Matching Words and Pictures, A to Z

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this matching words and pictures, A to Z worksheet, students match words to pictures for every letter of the alphabet, printable either in black and white or color version.
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My Springtime Coloring Book

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this springtime coloring worksheet, students create a book of springtime pictures by coloring each picture and putting them together in a book. There are 6 pictures for students to color.
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Using Pictures to Make Story Predictions

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this literacy and literature worksheet, students choose a book to read with a home reading partner. They write down the name of the book and its author. They examine the cover and the book's pictures before writing a prediction about...
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A Teeny Alphabet Book

For Students Pre-K - K
In this tiny alphabet book instructional activity, students cut out, color, assemble and staple a tiny alphabet book with uppercase letters A-F. Students look for examples in each picture that begin with each alphabet letter illustrated.
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My Picture Dictionary of Shape Words

For Students K - 1st
In this shape words worksheet, learners cut and assemble a mini book with six shape words: triangle, circle, diamond, rectangle, oval, square. Students write the word and paste the picture above it.
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Pictures and Photographs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Students write the facts that they learned from the photographs in the book All About Cats and Kittens. In this pictures and photographs lesson plan, students present their fact to the class and add it to the chart.
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Activity
PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: Oceans

For Parents 1st Standards
Flotsam by David Wiesner and The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole, illustrated by Bruce Degen, begin a reading adventure pack focusing on oceans. With story listening and thoughtful discussion, scholars complete several...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family and Friends: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Family and Friends is the theme of a unit consisting of English language development lessons. Reinforce language proficiency, particularly in family vocabulary, basic needs, feelings, short vowel sounds, blending, reading high frequency...
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Candlewick Press

Where's Waldo?: At the Library

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Where's Waldo? In the library, of course, teaching people how to care for, locate, and re-shelve books. Waldo also reviews alphabetizing, familiarizes class members with library vocabulary, and provides them with his own special bookmarks. 
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Do You Prefer Your Children's Book Characters Obedient or Contrary? Opinion Writing

For Students 9th - 12th
With this New York Times "Learning Network" exercise, high schoolers read an article about the death of Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are and then respond to several prompts that require them to shape their own opinions...
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Activity
Whitewater Valley Railroad

Teaching and Learning with The Polar Express

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Use a series of extension activities to enhance your class reading of Chris Van Allsburg's holiday classic, The Polar Express. From a biography of the author to filmed book reviews and research about the railroad, kids can take their...
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Picturing Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, through observation and discussion about the Coffin of Djed Mut, make connections between hieroglyphs and the English writing system. They create their own visual story using symbols that represent words.
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Picture This! Building Photo-Based Writing Skills

For Teachers 10th - 12th
High schoolers analyze photographs as a development activity for their literacy skills. They will review the 6 Q's feature for analyzing photographs and analyze a variety of photographs and then write comments in the space around the...
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Museum of Tolerance

Family Role Model Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
What does is take to be a role model? Through grand conversation, and the use of books and a graphic organizer, scholars find out and apply the requirements to identify a role model within their family. They then journey through the...
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Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
First graders sort pictures of animals into categories. In this sorting lesson plan, learners use the book On The Farm to categorize their animals.
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App
Software MacKiev

WORLD BOOK - This Day in History for iPad

For Students 6th - 12th
A simple but useful reference app, this resource provides short entries about historic leaders, entertainers, writers, inventors, and events of the past.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Four Storybook Apps to Add to Your Class Library

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Young readers will love the colorful illustrations, whimsical narration, and interactive extras included in these digital tales.
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Identifying Setting Using Evidence from the Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Help young readers find the setting in the story. They will review what a setting is with a modeled example by the teacher. After reading The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by Paul Brett Johnson and completing a practice sheet, they will be...
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Color Book

For Teachers K
Students identify the colors in various pictures. For this art lesson, students create book using card stock and yarn and match pictures that show a specific color to each page. Students write the color of the pictures at the top of each...
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Phases of the Moon Flip Book

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make a flip book. In this moon lesson, students review the moon phases and how they occur. Students make a flip book to show the moon's motion around the Earth.

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