Through this fairy tale "Jordan and the Little Magic Pencil" children will realize that language and spelling are like games. It offers tricks to make learning language skills easy. Parents and teachers should help them understand the...

Make yourself comfortable in someone's arms, it will feel like a dream,a short prayer before the night journey, an angel will come to whisper the secret in your ears. Hush - you should only listen - to your heart! Open your hand, Blow...

Digital facsimile of The Circus Procession, published in 1888. This rhyming tale of a parade of funny animals, clowns, and a fairy queen perfectly captures the essence of a favorite Gilded Age amusement, the traveling circus.

Determining the theme is not easy; you have to use the clues the author leaves to figure it out yourself. The author implies information about the story through plot points, setting, and characters. You infer and draw conclusions based...

A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Bo-Peep Story Books, a fairy tale book for children.

If you don't know that the incandescent light was a failure before it was a success, it's easy to write off some modern energy innovations like solar panels because they haven't hit the big time fast enough. Worse, the fairy-tale view of...

Explore the elements of a story using the well-known Cinderella story as source material. Learn about setting, character, sequence, exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution.

This PBS kids site features dozens of short plays that have been performed on the children's television series "Zoom." Includes short scripts for skits which students can perform together, and lists of props to include in the performance.

This resource features a day in the life of a little blue penguin. Students and teachers can observe these unique birds from the penguin cam.

In this BetterLesson, 2nd graders will learn to focus on details as they analyze the story of Cendrillion.

An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...

This site provides a collection of concise folktale plots for student retelling. Teachers can also view and use the links that contain online lesson plans and activities.