Harold D. Underdown
Review: Illustrating Children's Books: Creating Pictures
A book review of "Illustrating Children's Books: Creating Pictures for Publication," including critical contents and comments. Also provides information about who would benefit from reading this book review. A good resource for those...
Read Works
Read Works: Kindergarten: Character: Lesson 3: Main and Secondary Characters
[Free Registration/Login Required] Based on stories Sheila Rae, the Brave and Jamaica's Find, this lesson plan will take young scholars through the process of distinguishing main characters from secondary ones by relying on clues from...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Picture Walk and Partner Talk
Learners 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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Useful Shapes: Analytical Writing in Primary Math Classrooms
For this lesson, the book entitled The Greedy Triangle, written by Marilyn Burns, is shared. After sharing this read-aloud book, students will illustrate pictures that incorporate the triangle. Then will write three reasons why a...
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 10: Rock Art
This module engages students in designing their own rock art. Teachers will engage students in a shared texts, The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola and Mathematics from Many Cultures by Calvin Irons, James Burnett and...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Preterite vs Imperfect Part Iii
This site is an introduction to verbs that change meaning according to which past tense is applied, preterite or imperfect. Examples in English and Spanish illustrate the change of meaning. A quiz at the end of the lesson tests the...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg
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.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Charles Dickens
Explore the life and work of Charles Dickens through this educational resource.
OpenStax
Open Stax: A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
By reading this section of a chapter on "Jacksonian Democracy," students will be able to explain and illustrate the new style of American politics in the 1820s, describe the policies of John Quincy Adams's presidency and explain the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dewey Decimal Classification System Mural
Students will select a book from an assigned section in the non-fiction area of the library. After reading the books, students will write a paragraph that summarizes the content area of the book. Students will illustrate the book that...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Power: Taming the Octopus: The Image of the Octopus
Six versions of the octopus, a pervasive image in late-nineteenth-century America, that illustrate the extensive and corrosive power held by corporations over American political and economic life. Reading guide with discussion questions.