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Links to literature-based lesson plans, units, and activities for teachers. 
Writing
Fairy
Tale Comparison Lesson - I created this lesson on fairy tales.
The lesson reviews folk tales, introduces fairy tales, and compares
Cinderella with Bubba the Cowboy Prince.
Summary Chart - Cinderella/Bubba Comparison Chart. For above lesson.
Fairy Tale Characteristics Transparency - For above lesson.
Score
K-3 Literature Cyber Guides
- Cyberguides include such books as Cloudy
with a Chance of Meatballs, Charlotte's Web, Frog and Toad are
Friends, The Goat in the Rug, The Great Kapok Tree, Hill of Fire,
How My Parent's Learned to Eat, Now One Foot Now the Other, The
Mitten, Miss Rumphius, Stellaluna, Sweet Clara and the Freedom
Quilt, The Mitten, My Great Aunt Arizona, The Very Hungry Caterpillar,
Two Bad Ants, The Velveteen Rabbit,
and much, much more!!!!!
Book
Units - Collection of lesson, units, activities for books
for preschool to twelve grade.The titles are in alphabetical order.
From Bibliocat.
Love
Our Books.Com
- Check out the featured books section for lesson ideas for
books from these authors: Kevin Henkes, Jan Brett, Marc Brown
and Leo Lionni. Also contains author studies: activities to do
with any book, as well as poetry in the classroom.
Teacher
View Book Reviews and Lessons - Teacher created reviews and
activities of children's books. By grade level. Third Grade books
include Alexander and the
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, The Armadillo from
Amarillo, The Book that Jack Wrote, Brave Irene, Brother Eagle,
Sister Sky, Cinderella, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The
Doorbell Rang, Follow the Drinking Gourd, Grandfather Tang's Story,
The Great Kapok Tree, How to Eat Fried Worms, The Jolly Postman
and Other People's Letters, The Keeping Quilt, Knots on a Counting
Rope, The Legend of the Bluebonnet, The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush,
The Library Dragon, Various Magic School Bus books, Molly's Pilgrim,
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, Owl Moon, Ox-Cart Man, The Polar
Express, Ramona Quimby, Age 8, The True Story of the Three Little
Pigs, Uncle Jed's Barbershop, etc.
A
to Z Teacher Stuff -Literature Activities - Story activities
indexed by book title.
Asa
Adams Literacy Projects
- Activity guides
for stories including Miss Rumphius, Strider, Aunt Harriet's Underground
Railroad in the Sky, Roxaboxen, The Stinky Cheeseman ... etc.
Literature
Related Lessons - Lessons for such stories as Animal Farm,
Jumanji, Treasure Island, etc.
The
Mitten - Suggestions
from Carol Hurst
If
You Give A Mouse A Cookie
- Three coloring pages to print.
Colleen's
Favorite Fairy Tale Links and Jokes - Fairy Tale units, lesson
ideas, and jokes.
Index
to Children's and Young Adult's Authors and Illustrators
We
Love Books - Featured Authors, Author Studies for teachers.
Featured Authors include Kevin Henkes and Marc Brown, with more
to come!
The
Official Eric Carle Web Site
Welcome
to Jan Brett's Home Page
Reading
Lady.Com - Resources "for educators seeking to interact
with other educators as they expand their understanding of literacy
teaching." Contains author studies, discussion forums, poetry,
reader's theater, etc.
Carol
Hurst's Children's Literature Site - Very extensive site.
Book reviews and lesson tips.
Reading
Rainbow Index of Programs
Children's
Literature: Resources for teachers - Lots of links to literature
sites.
Children's
Literature Web Guide - General information on children's literature.
Discussion boards, literature links, book awards, etc.
The
Wright Group Home Page - Resources and tips for teachers on
how to build a balanced literacy program.
Reading
Comprehension Worksheets 
From
Pre-K to High School. Excellent Site from ABCTeach.
Reading
Workshop- Wonderful site from Palma Sola Elementary School. Contains
printable and online worksheets including comprehension, vocabulary,
homophones, compound words, contractions, synonyms, prefixes,
suffixes, antonyms, and multiple meaning words. Also contains
integrated online units.
Texas
Assessment Program - EXCELLENT! Online interactive reading comprehension
tests
Reading
from a to z - A complete reading program. Leveled readers,
guided reading lesson plans. Monthly or yearly membership required
but samples of lessons and books can be downloaded for free. I
downloaded a sample reader and lesson. It looks excellent. Check
it out.
- School
Home Reading Kits - Activities to help reinforce reading
and language arts activities at home. K - 3
Musical
Vocabulary Links - An excellent lesson for teaching vocabulary
in the song "The Star-spangled Banner
Rob
Rider's Dolch Word Flash Cards - Interactive Dolch flash cards.
Arranged by levels.Using
Dolch Words - Dolch
words from pre-primer to 3rd year
Dolch
Sight Word Games - Tips and games from Teachers.net
Alphabet
Superhighway's Writing Center - An excellent site for writing
resources. Examples of blind writing, brainstorming, outlining,
and research. Also examples and how to's for argument, comparison
and contrast, description, narrative, and process writing.
Writing
- From ABC Teach. Forms for writing
letters, poetry, book reports. Also contains writing forms for
Persuasive Writing, Biography, Writing Check List,etc.
