Read the story The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog: A Folktale from Great Britain by Margaret Read MacDonald and choose from multiple activities to learn about the tale's theme—kindness. With so many options, your kind kids will...

A fun and delicious lesson can help your kids learn about plural nouns and story sequencing. After reading The Magic Apple by Rob Cleveland, kids match pictures to story segments and add s to nouns to make them plural....

Teach your class about saving, spending, and goal setting with a story about a couple of bunnies who went shopping and related activities. Learners keep track of the bunnies' spending, practice identifying long- and short-term savings...

Introduce your young learners to opera by dressing up as Mozart and recounting some of the fascinating details of his life and music. After exploring the Metropolitan Opera's site for kids, the class listens to a reading of Kyra...

"Ode to la Tortilla" and "Ode to Joy"? Sure! Use Gary Soto's poem to introduce learners to the ode format. After examining the descriptive words Soto uses, class members study a poster of Ludwig van Beethoven, suggest words that describe...

Spruce up a class reading of the children's book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback with this fun series of activities. Starting with a list of reading comprehension questions and key vocabulary to address during a teacher...

After reading a picture book about planting and harvesting cucumbers, learners get a chance to examine some cucumbers of their own. First, they see photographs of a cucumber on a vine, and learn that it is part of the gourd family....

Pupils listen to a teacher reading of The Little Red Hen, identify the story elements and sequence them. They talk about different jobs associated with providing food and act out a play based on the story. Be aware that although several...

Links to 100 first grade activities arranged by skill set and designed to improve reading and writing. All activities are in PDF format and are ready to print and use. They can be downloaded individually, according to skill set, or as...

Links to 100 third grade activities arranged by skill set and designed to improve reading and writing. All activities are in PDF format and are ready to print and use. They can be downloaded individually, according to skill set, or as...

[Free Registration/Login Required] With this lesson plan, students can learn how several authors can write about the same topic, but for different purposes.

In this comprehensive unit, students launch their learning about birds by using informational texts. As students read these texts, they build background knowledge and develop their skills as readers of informational texts. Included are...

Questions about weather clear up when learners use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the stars of the circus, the acrobats. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

In this instructional activity, students will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans, based on David Shannon's books No, David!, David Gets in Trouble, and David Goes to School. Students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine and describe...

Choose from a variety of lesson plans, resources, center activities, and a formative assessment that meets the standard of describing the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

This is an online children's picture book for early readers. It includes story word list.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of resources to teach and reinforce the common core standard of describing connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.