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.
Fact Monster
Fact Monster: Classic Picture Books
Type with farm animals, talk with a dog, and read poetry about insects. Entertaining stories and interesting artwork are enjoyed by students of all ages. Use this list of classic picture books for suggestions.
Read Works
Read Works: Fact and Opinion 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on fact and opinion through which students learn how to identify opinions through signal words, identify facts in a non-fiction text, and use facts to help them formulate opinions of...
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Read Write Think: Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for Ell's
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
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Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Biography
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book A Picture Book of Anne Frank by David A. Adler to learn about the characteristics that define boigraphy. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Library of Congress
Book Turner: Children's Literature: Baseball a B C
Turn the pages of this scanned copy of Baseball A B C. Read along with the story and look at the pictures of this alphabet book about a group of boys playing a baseball game. From the collection of classic books in the Library of...
Library of Congress
Classic Books: The Rocket Book
Turn the pages of this scanned copy of The Rocket Book by Peter Newell. Read along with the story and look at the pictures as a rocket is shot off in the basement of an apartment building and travels through twenty-one floors before it...
Library of Congress
Book Turner: A Apple Pie
Turn the pages of this scanned copy of A Apple Pie by Kate Greenaway. Read along with the story and look at the pictures of this alphabet book about making and eating an apple pie.
Library of Congress
Library of Congress: Classic Books: Walter Crane: Baby's Own Aesop
Turn the pages of this scanned copy of Baby's Own Aesop by Walter Crane. Read along with the shortened form in poetic form and see the moral of each story.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Clifford: Read and Write: A Fish With a Wish
This is a picture book story about a fish and a lobster who both wish they had a friend.
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Mercer Mayer: Official Website of Little Critter
This site is very easy to navigate with pictures of Little Critter. Look through Little Critter's favorite jokes and art work and read about the author of the Little Critter books, Mercer Mayer.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Breaking Barriers: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
Through a series of picture book read-alouds and journal entries, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.
International Reading Association
Reading Online: Children's Creating Artists' Books
Do you struggle with reluctant readers? Here are great ideas about integrating reading and visual creativity. This is a effective way to use student interest by creating an artist's book project.
Read Works
Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: What the Book Is Mainly About
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Tigers! by Sarah L. Thomson and Ladybugs by Monica Hughes to teach students to use titles, pictures, and text to identify the main idea of an informational text. Ideas for direct...
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Read Works: Grade 1: Three Lesson Unit: Character: Actions, Feelings, Looks
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans, based on David Shannon's books No, David!, David Gets in Trouble, and David Goes to School. Students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine and describe...
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Read Works: Ben Franklin's Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a little-known invention made by Benjamin Franklin. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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.
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Read Works:classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Sorting to Predetermined Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Texts: Pictures and Photographs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses All About Cats and Kittens by Emily Neye to teach learners how to identify facts from photographs and pictures in informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: Classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Creating Groups and Sorting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into categories they create for themselves. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context Kindergarten Unit: Using Sound and Picture Cues
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach learners to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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Read Write Think: Integrating Language Arts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This lesson integrates reading, writing, listening, and speaking to boost students' comprehension skills. Students explore Laura Joffe Numeroff 's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie using a variety of techniques, beginning with a picture walk...
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Sequence Clue Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach students to identify the sequence of a story by looking at transitional words such as "first" and "then" in the book Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant. Learning...