Picture book lesson plans and activities for busy teachers
Looking for the best diverse female children’s books characters to read about with your kids? Here are some great picture books and chapter books for upper grades or for classroom read alouds with strong, diverse female leads. These children’s books include books with fictional strong women protagonists and real life female heroes for students to study including women who are… Read More
Looking for the best picture books with strong female characters to read with your kids? Here are some great picture books for primary and upper elementary grades or for classroom read alouds with strong female leads. These children’s books include books with fictional strong women protagonists and real life female heroes for students to study. Ideas for elementary school teachers… Read More
A novel study with discussion questions for the historical fiction middle grade novel The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. A great book for studying relationships, impact of setting, bravery, loss, and for social emotional learning (SEL)! Printable worksheets and student activities on Google Docs with provided sentence stems to help students respond in paragraph form using text… Read More
Looking for the best children’s books about civil rights? These civil rights picture books for elementary students are engaging for primary and upper elementary kids. Books with lesson plans and activities linked. Fun and informative picture books about various civil rights topics like segregation, integration, women’s rights, immigration and more for your kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth or fifth grade… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the autobiography mentor text picture book More Than Peach: Changing the World One Crayon At a Time by Bellen Woodard. Great for dealing with activism, diversity and inclusion and problem-solving! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: The lesson plans include: DOWNLOAD THE… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text picture book Stolen Words by Melanie Florence. An excellent book for study of Native American Heritage Month, Indigenous Peoples Day, the colonial school / residential school program or modern American Indian cultures. Activities include discussion of the troubling history of colonial schools. Google Slides presentation… Read More