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Reading Is Fundamental

Reading Is Fundamental: Illustrate a Story: Mystery of the Mummy's Maze [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Print this short mystery story for your advanced English language learners to illustrate. The story gives preterit and pluperfect tense practice.
Activity
Reading Is Fundamental

Reading Is Fundamental: Illustrate a Story: Puppies in Space [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 4th
Print off this adorable story and draw your own pictures to go with it.
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Reading Is Fundamental

Reading Is Fundamental: Illustrate a Story: The Last Panda [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 5th
Print this short story about panda bears and about the consequences of human encroachment into their diminishing habitat and then illustrate it and bind it as a book.
Interactive
Birmingham Grid for Learning (UK)

Birmingham Grid for Learning: Story Time

For Students K - 1st
Five familiar children's stories have been adapted and illustrated for this site. Students may "read along" and identify settings, characters, sequencing, and more. It also provides printable worksheets, copies of the text and the...
eBook
Topmarks Online

Topmark: Stories From the Old Testament and Torah: The Story of Joseph

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is a site for children telling and illustrating the story of Joseph from the Hebrew Scriptures
eBook
Other

Bedtime Story Classics Alice in Wonderland

For Students 9th - 10th
This beautiful online edition of the Lewis Carroll classic is written in large text for easy legibility, and includes illustrations from eleven different versions of the story. It also includes background information on the writing of...
Article
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Pbs: Moyers on Addiction: Real Life Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS online presents six stories illustrating the struggle undergone by both adults and teens. Each individual story describes a unique perspective on the substance they abused and how it adversely affected their lives.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Pictures Can Tell the Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The students will develop independent reading skills by using the illustrations. The teacher will read a selection of books and ask students to tell what they see in the book. Comments will lead to the conclusion that pictures tell us...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: Examine Story Elements Using Comic Stri

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, young scholars use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they have read. Each panel...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Rock Cycle Through Writing and Illustrating

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this writing and illustrating activity, students will be able to follow a simple rock cycle to follow the life of "Rocky the Rock". After investigating the rock cycle, students will then be able to illustrate the rock cycle, along...
Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Short Story: Specimens Illustrating Its Development

For Students 9th - 10th
Written by literary critic and Columbia professor, Brander Mathews, this site lists 23 short stories from the Middle Ages through the early 20th century. Mathews' notes on each story show the development of the genre.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: John Jay

For Students 3rd - 6th
This article chronicles the life of John Jay, one of America's founding fathers and the first chief justice of the Supreme Court. Includes a portrait and illustrations.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Action Packed Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students learn to use whole numbers and the operations of addition and subtraction. They choose a number, create a story Using the number selected and illustrate the number story. They represent the action in the story on the calculator.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Bear Stories: A Glance at the Bear Family by Ernest Ingersoll

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bear Stories: A Glance at the Bear Family by Ernest Ingersoll (c1884), a collection of ten true bear stories with illustrations.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Experience Teaches and Other Stories by G. Path

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Experience Teaches and Other Stories by G. Path, a collection of children's stories that illustrate familiar proverbs.
Graphic
National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society: Audubon Adventures: The Pollination Story

For Students 3rd - 8th
A colorful, interactive chart illustrating the stages in the pollination of flowers by bees.
eBook
University of Virginia

The University of Virginia: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Maintained by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library, this site offers the full text of Guy de Maupassant's "Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life" which includes 27 short stories. Also provided are...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Who Writes the Story? Who Does the Illustrations?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will learn to identify the author and illustrator on the cover of the book and orally define their role. Pictures and video of the lesson in action are included.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Go, Dog, Go!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will read the story and describe the picture details of the illustrations in relation to the text and write about one of the story events. "Go, Dog, Go!" contains illustrations that are very elaborate and crazy while the text is...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Create a Book (Grade 3 6)

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Students will illustrate and write their own story.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reach: Recipe for Writing!

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
REACH for more! Be an author! Write and illustrate your very own story by mixing up a simple recipe of WHO, WHERE, WHAT, and ENDING.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Picture Walk and Partner Talk

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will participate in a picture walk through the expository text "Seasons and Weather". The purpose of the picture walk is to prepare the students for reading the story and gives them practice in using picture clues to make...
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Children's Books Online

Children's Books Online: The Story of Robinson Crusoe, Adapted for Children

For Students 9th - 10th
This version of Defoe's story can be viewed the way it was published about 1900, complete with illustrations. Could make an interesting comparison to the complete novel.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: "The Wizard of Oz"

For Students 3rd - 5th
View illustrations from the original 1900 edition of this classic children's book and learn about the film version. This article also contains an image of the author and information about his life.