TEACHING RESOURCE
Discover great ideas on how to introduce yourself to your new middle grade or secondary students and their parents.
BOOK GUIDES
This list of suggestions will help you to integrate A Year Down Yonder with other subjects such as math, social studies,…
Use these discussion questions to check your students' comprehension of A Year Down Yonder.
REFERENCE
This biography details the life of So You Want to Be President author Judith St. George.
Real-world application on how to get the most for your students when they read aloud.
LESSON PLANS
To use Readers Theater with social studies, students read an historical novel, then select one part of it to script.…
By writing a Readers Theater script for Zia, by Scott O'Dell, students will learn about Zia and her brother. They…
Students create a script for The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare, the story of Kit, who immigrates…
Students develop a script for Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, the story of an apprentice who becomes involved with…
Students dramatize a section of Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. They reenact the part about Native…
This Readers Theater script is from Journey Home, by Yoshiko Uchida. Students enact part of the story of Yuki and her…
This Readers Theater script for The Drinking Gourd, by F. N. Monjo, deals with Tommy discovering runaway slaves hidden…
Readers Theater script ideas for The House of Sixty Fathers, by Meindert DeJong. This is the story of Tien Pao and his…
Readers Theatre is an oral reading activity that invites children to become the characters in favorite books and…
This sample script can be used as a basis for a Readers Theater production.
Find out what it is like to be a judge for the Newbery Awards for outstanding children's literature.
Find useful tips on how to pull math concepts out of literature. Provided by Penguin Putnam.
CLASSROOM TOOLS
Teach your students about environmental waste and responsibility with this activity and bulletin board. This is a great…
Use an ocean theme in your science lessons with this printable ideas and bulletin board example.
Incorporate a farm theme or a farm-inspired bulletin board into your lessons with this printable.
Motivate students to read with these bear-focused ideas and bulletin board example.
The basic seating configurations for a classroom are described.
Setting up a classroom is a daunting challenge - make the most of it with these suggestions Too much stuff, too many…
The children's books in this list deal with the topics of love and friendship.
