Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This comprehensive teacher's guide for the book "Zathura" by Chris Van Allsburg provides us with an opportunity to examine how writers blend scientific information with a fictional story.
eBook
Scholastic

Scholastic: Clifford: Read and Write: A Fish With a Wish

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a picture book story about a fish and a lobster who both wish they had a friend.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Pictures and Text Work Together Too!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
Interactive
British Council

British Council: Learn English Kids: The Lazy Bear

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read along as you listen to an animated story about a bear who sleeps too long; then print words and some activities to do with the story.
Unit Plan
Other

Lt Scotland: Storybook Web

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Stories from Scotland! This website highlights a collection of children's stories by four famous Scottish authors. Play games, listen to read-alouds, complete a cloze activity, and listen to how the authors got the ideas for their stories.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Breaking Barriers: Critical Discussion of Social Issues

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Through a series of picture book read-alouds and journal entries, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Useful Shapes: Analytical Writing in Primary Math Classrooms

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the book entitled The Greedy Triangle, written by Marilyn Burns, is shared. After sharing this read-aloud book, learners will illustrate pictures that incorporate the triangle. Then will write three reasons why a...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Truth Be Told

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan extends student understanding of the concept of "truisms" and "writing hooks" to introduce writings. Gretchen Bernabei's Reviving the Essay, the book Fox, written by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks, will be read aloud and...