Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Make a Big Book of Rhymes: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this teacher-led activity on this site, students work together in the classroom creating a book full of rhymes.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this K-2 instructional activity, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her students.
eBook
McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Education: Kindergarten: Activity Book [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help kindergarteners reinforce their knowledge of the alphabet and learn sight words with the activities in this 325-page book. This workbook is designed to supplement the following Big Books: Animals in the Park: An ABC Book by Bob...
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Animals: Big and Little

For Students Pre-K - 1st
See big animals beside small, young ones. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Foreign Policy 1890 1914: Roosevelt's "Big Stick" Foreign Policy

For Students 11th - 12th
The 'Big Stick' foreign policy of Theodore Roosevelt is explained, and how it was used in the building of the Panama Canal and to maneuver an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Industrialization and Big Business, 1870 1900: Inventors of the Age

For Students 11th - 12th
In the Industrial Revolution, new products and inventions spurred the growth of big business. Learn about some of these inventions and the people who created them, for example, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison.
Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: A Farewell to Arms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guide to Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with activities, assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show, with...
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Family: Big Sister

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A story about what it is like to have a big sister. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Little Big Mouse

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from Between the Lions features "The Lion and the Mouse" for young students, an introduction to one of many Aesop's fables. illustrates how children can learn by talking about a book as it is read aloud. [4:19]
Website
Crayola

Crayola: Big as Life Book Report (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a fun idea to display your students' book reports, and encourage reading at the same time! In this online lesson, children use special markers to actually draw their book report on the windows of the library or classroom. Also...
eBook
Just Books Read Aloud

Just Books Read Aloud: Norman Bridwell: Clifford the Big Red Dog

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A video of the book "Clifford The Big Red Dog", written by Norman Bridwell. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.
Lesson Plan
Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: The Big Snapper Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 6th
The novel The Big Snapper, written by Katherine Holubitsky, looks at the idea of tall tales helping a young boy as he struggles with the difficult issues in his life - an absent father, a beloved grandfather who falls ill, and struggling...
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Big Al [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Andew Clements Yoshi's book, Big Al, is provided on these pages. Eight character roles are needed in this activity.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Eugene Triviza's children's picture book, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, is provided on these pages. Fifteen character roles are needed in this activity.
Unit Plan
Other

Penguin Group Canada: Our Canadian Girl: Rachel Book One (Teacher Guide) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
This teacher's guide accompanies 'Rachel Book One: A Mighty Big Imagining', one in the Our Canadian Girl series. The novel looks at the experiences of early black Canadian pioneers.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel by Victor Appleton

For Students 4th - 8th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel, an adventure, multi-chapter book written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main character assists...
Professional Doc
Other

Erikson Institute: Halloween and Animal Fun While Exploring Big, Bigger

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
This historical fiction book, winner of a 2006 Newbery Honor for children's books, is perfect for girls graduating from the Little House on the Prairie series. Author Kirby Larson based this tale on her own great-grandmother's...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Big Brother Daniel

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This early reading module is an extension of PBS Kids' series, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. Four e-books share read-aloud stories that feature Daniel Tiger: Big Brother Daniel, Neighborhood Clean Up, Daniel's Babysitter, and Something...
Interactive
TVOntario

Tvo Kids: Games: Big Escape 2: Under the Big Top

For Students 3rd - 5th
Dr. Know It All has stolen the words from the books in the library and has run off to the circus. Find the clues, fill in the missing words in his journal to catch him, and get the words back where they belong.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the novel The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Big Horn Treasure

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of The Big-Horn Treasure by John F. Cargill, a book of children's fiction.
eBook
Just Books Read Aloud

Just Books Read Aloud: Angela Royston: Big Machines

For Students Pre-K - K
A video of the book "Big Machines", written by Angela Royston, and illustrated by Terry Pastor. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.
eBook
Just Books Read Aloud

Just Books Read Aloud: Margaret Brown and Felicia Bond: Big Red Barn

For Students Pre-K - K
A video of the book "Big Red Barn", written by Margaret Brown and Felicia Bond. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.

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