"Two Travelers and the Bear": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to recognize cause-and-effect...		Life on the Prairie Worksheet Worksheet associated with the "Life on the Prairie" lesson. ...
"The Fox and the Goat": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to learn about the characters in a...		Life on the Prairie Rubric This scoring guide is for use with the "Life on the Prairie" lesson.
Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring: Reading Passage This reading passage is centered around the life of the environmentalist, Rachel Carson. Use...		How to Read a Poem This student handout will help students to read, understand, evaluate, and write poetry.
Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring: Comprehension Questions Literal and interpretive comprehension questions to use with the Rachel Carson: The Coming of a...		Denotation/Connotation The vocabulary words used in this lesson stem from realism literature. Students are asked to...
Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring Enhance reading comprehension with a lesson that is centered around a biography about...		Counting Strong Words in Poetry Using a love poem by Christopher Marlowe, children examine his use of nouns, verbs, and...
Island of the Blue Dolphins Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the story of an American Indian girl stranded on an...		Poetic Language in "Memories of Christmas" Students will understand and appreciate the use of literal and figurative language though...
The Keeping Quilt The Keeping Quilt is a multi-generational story that follows a beloved quilt from one...		Snake Facts Game Board Use this game board to play the Snake and Sight Word Board Game.
So You Want to Be President? Find ten tips for using So You Wanna Be President?, the 2001 Caldecott Medal winner, in...		Emily Dickinson -- Selected Poems -- Series Two This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of...
Life on the Prairie Prairie life in the 1800s will come alive for students as they visit historical websites with...		Emily Dickinson -- Selected Poems -- Series One This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of...
Life on the Prairie Vocabulary Use this vocabulary list with the "Life on the Prairie" lesson.		A Collection of Poetry Activities This collection of ideas will help students to love poetry from creation to recitation.