Students collaboratively create an illustrated story as a team by using Google Presentation.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students learn about the roles of authors and illustrators through games and book-writing. Students will have an opportunity to act out the roles of illustrators and authors. They will...

Resource illustrates the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in this interactive photo essay.

This video resource explains the roles that authors and illustrators have in literature.

The purpose of this task is for students to compose two-dimensional shapes to create a composite shape using tangram pieces. The teacher will read "Grandfather Tang's Story" and the students will use tangrams to compose the animals from...

A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Playmate Sketches Profusely Illustrated, a book of poems and stories for children.

Eighth graders are presented with the distance-time graphs of two bike riders in a race. They are to identify the winner and write a story describing what is happening during the race based on the shapes of the graphs. Aligns with 8.F.B.5.

Under in the Mud by Laureanna Raymond-Duvernell takes you into the wintering world of ten Wisconsin animals as you listen to her read the book and talk about the animals in it. Learn about how animals hibernate, migrate, and adapt to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, young scholars will serve as researchers of author/illustrator Kevin Henkes. With prompting, students will read three books by Kevin Henkes. They will recall information...

Students will illustrate and write their own story.

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...

Illustrated online story based on a Chinese tale written 300 years ago. "Tiger Son" is the story of a tiger cub adopted by an old woman and the relationship they form. You'll also find biographical information on Po Chung-ling, the...

Short, illustrated children's detective stories collected by the well-known "Jornal do Comercio," a Brazilian periodical. Read the stories online and see if you can help Inspector Arruda solve the mysteries.

This teaching guide for Solomon's Tree, a story written by Andrea Spalding and illustrated by Janet Wilson, provides a synopsis of the story and an explanation of how the book evolved. The book is about a boy's relationship with a maple...

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.

This website explores the lives of heroic ordinary people who made their mark on history. Features illustrated story on Roger Kett, leader of the rebellion against the Tudor government. Find out who he was, what he did, his achievements,...

This website explores the lives of heroic ordinary people who made their mark on history. Features illustrated story on Florence Nightingale, famous nurse in the Crimean War. Find out who she was, what she did, her achievements, and her...

This website explores the lives of heroic ordinary people who made their mark on history. Features illustrated story on Florence Nightingale who worked in the military hospitals. Find out who she was, what she did, her achievements, and...

This website explores the lives of heroic ordinary people who made their mark on history. Features illustrated story on Giovanni Falcone who sacrificed his life fighting against the mafia. Find out who he was, what he did, his...

This website explores the lives of heroic ordinary people who made their mark on history. Features illustrated story on Nelson Mandela who became South Africa's first democratically elected president. Find out who he was, what he did,...

This website explores the lives of people who made their mark on history. Features illustrated story on Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Britain from 1937 to 1940. Find out who he was, what he did, his achievements, and his legacy.

Students from the Greece Central School District in New York created this bilingual Pourquoi storybook. This collaborative project was written by students in third grade, then translated into Spanish, illustrated and marketed by high...

This book review of William Steig's Abel's Island features suggestions for comparisons to other survival stories.

The teacher will show pictures of six hands to young scholars. (See attachment) After a brainstorming session, students will choose one hand that illustrates a particular story from their life. Then, young scholars will write a two page...