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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.
Activity
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.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Create a Book (Grade 3 6)

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Students will illustrate and write their own story.
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, learners use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they have read. Each panel retells...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

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

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners 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.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Lesson: A Picture Says a Thousand Words

For Teachers 5th Standards
The objective of this lesson is for students to understand how an author uses language and illustrations to influence the way readers think and feel about characters and events in a story. Students are asked to evaluate the introduction...
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
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...
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.
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Read Works

Read Works: Kindergarten: Character: Lesson 1: Physical Attributes of a Character

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on David McPhail's Lost!, in which students are introduced to literary characters and explore the various clues, such as descriptions and illustrations, that communicate a...
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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...
eBook
PBS

Pbs: African American Migration Story: Many Rivers to Cross

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed presentation illustrating the history of Africans migrating to the Americas from as early as 1500 through the late 1860's. Review the distribution of Africans in North and South America, the initial settlements, escaped and...
Activity
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.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: When (Seasons, Day, or Night)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on Look! Snow! by Kathryn O. Galbraith, in which students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine basic time elements of setting in a story. Students follow this...
Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: Where

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the book Gaspard at the Seashore by Anne Gutman to teach clues students can use to determine where a story takes place. The book must be provided by the teacher, but downloadable worksheets for...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Multiplication Stories and Illustrations I Word Problems

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video models how to solve a multiplication word problem using pictures, writing the number sentence and solving. The video is followed by a series of practice...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Multiplication Stories and Illustrations Ii Word Problems

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video models how to solve a multiplication word problem using pictures, writing the number sentence and solving.
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Education.com

Education.com: rl.k.7 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets that help students practice the following Common Core State Standards skill: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Day 1 Rude Giants

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, and events by working with partners to ask and answer questions about the text.
Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Eric Carle Biography

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about your favorite children's author, Eric Carle, when you visit this biography. Students and teachers will gain a new perspective of this author's life and work.
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.
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.