Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
Transforming Education
Self-Efficacy Strategies
Scholars with high levels of self-efficacy perform better in school. Instructors review a list of strategies for enhancing self-efficacy skills. They discover how to teach learners to appropriately define success, celebrate progress, and...
New York Times
New York Times: The Learning Network: Picture Prompts
[Free Registration/Login Required] An excellent resource for ideas for regular writing. Provides a rich bank of picture prompts with new ones added daily or every few days. Each picture links to a short passage with a writing suggestion....
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Picture Walk and Partner Talk
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Image to Narrative
This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for students of all levels.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Every Picture Has a Story
Smithsonian Education presents "Every Picture Has a Story". Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students examine some of the millions of photographs in the Smithsonian. This amazing teaching package comes...
Planet eBooks
Planet E Book: The Picture of Dorian Gray [Pdf]
The complete text of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde is available here in PDF format. The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was first released in 1890, is 198 pages pages long.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Pictures and Text Work Together Too!
The class will read the informational text "Together They Were Better". As the teacher reads the book aloud, she/he will use the illustrations from each page to give students clues as to the text on the page, helping them to see the...
Library of Congress
Loc: The Spanish American War in Motion Pictures
A great web site about the first war that was ever filmed in motion pictures. Very complete collection on all aspects of the Spanish-American War.
New York Times
New York Times: 2009: The Year in Pictures
New York Times photographers brilliantly captured and compiled over 80 pictures which illustrate many worldwide events throughout 2009.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: What Are Third Grade Lessons Using Picture Books?
This article suggests uses for picture books in 3rd-grade classes including for sequencing, imagery, to determine the main idea, to create their own picture books, to create the missing connection between picture and text, and to aid...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Children's Picture Book Project
Contains plans for eight lessons that ask learners to write their own children's picture book in order to review story structure and literary techniques. Students also write book reviews of each other's work. In addition to objectives...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Postmodern Picture Books
Using "Black and White" by David Macaulay, this lesson plan demonstrates the use of picture books as learning tools in middle school. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Timeless Picture Books
Can you motivate your young students to read more? Scholastic.com offers a list of timeless picture books to help you accomplish your goal. Along with the title there is a brief description of each book.
Starfall
Starfall: Picture Hunt: Y as Long E
Become a better reader with this interactive game. Hunt for pictures words with Y as a long E sound.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Little Red Riding Hood: Picture Book by Harrison Weir
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Little Red Riding-Hood: Picture Book by Harrison Weir (1865), a collection of illustrated fairy tales and nursery rhymes including the following: "Little Red...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Pictures to Inspire Your Descriptive Writing [Pdf]
This is a four-page PDF of six photos to inspire descriptive writing: Children playing on a slide in Brazil, Factory Sunset, Family Dinner, Oil Spill, Red Palace Room, and War Prayer. A list of picture credits with web links is provided...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Little Explorers Picture Dictionary
Delve into this wonderfully illustrated and comprehensive picture dictionary. Research up to 1,905 illustrated entries. Each word is used in a meaningful sentence.
Other
Edison:life and Inventions/motion Pictures
This page is part of an online text of a book published in 1929 by Dyer and Martin on the life and work of inventor Thomas Edison. Discusses Edison's role in the development of motion pictures, but be sure to view the rest of the book...
Other
National Gallery: Take One Picture
Take One Picture equips primary classroom teachers to use artwork as cross-curricular learning resources. The program has an archive of pictures and reports on how the pictures were used in classes to broaden understanding in multiple...
Other
Nsw Department of Education and Training: Picture This [Pdf]
Reading unit plan focusing on picture books. It contains ten days worth of teaching suggestions that use a variety of reading strategies including modeled as well as independent reading and writing. Also includes five printable...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Picture Hunt Activity: Phoneme Manipulation
This activity uses the students' favorite classroom book as a resource. The instructor says We are going on a Picture Hunt! and then asks the class where an object is in the picture, but leaves out the first letter sound when asking.
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
This is an online study guide for the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Library of Congress
Loc: Early Baseball Pictures, 1860s 1920s
This online presentation highlights the beginnings of baseball through descriptive pictures.
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