Between the Lions . Folk Tales and Fables Come play again later! Come play again tomorrow! Learning Center Activities During 2004-2007, a team of teachers at FCRR collected ideas and created Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide and Professional Development DVD that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the student center materials. Frequently Asked Questions about Student Center Activities Grades K-1 Student Center Activities (2005) Grades K-1 Student Center Activities (Revised, 2008) Grades 2-3 Student Center Activities (2006) Grades 4-5 Student Center Activities (2007) Student Center Activities and Instructional Routines Search Tool The K-5 Student Center Activities (SCA) and K-3 Instructional Routines search tool provides teacher's access to the 522 individual SCA and the instructional routines from Empowering Teachers.
Storytelling Prompts for Kids - Tell Me A Story Time for the Virtual Chapter Book Club for Kids. The theme for November is Fairy Tales, Fables and Fractured Fairy Tales. My daughters have actually been reading quite a few fairy tale chapter books lately. When Clemency is attacked by an evil fairy, she remembers the tale of Peter Pan, as her father had told her one evening. Tell Me A Story – Storytelling Prompts for Kids First, print off the storytelling prompts. tell me a story – storytelling prompt.doc Next, cut out the prompts, fold them and place them inside a jar or bag. Finally, find some time to sit down with your family and have each person pull a prompt from the jar. When we gave this activity a try, I discovered that it helps to have a few key questions on hand in case the storyteller becomes stuck. what did you see? Since there is no writing involved, this activity can be enjoyed by children of all ages. Now it is time to find out what the other bloggers in the Virtual Chapter Book Club for Kids have been reading and creating.
Websites for Read Aloud Books Kids love to hear stories - ask any child and I'll bet they tell you that one of their favorite parts of their day is read-aloud and storytime! Listening to a book helps kids to develop better concentration and listening skills, engages their imagination, increases their vocabulary and enhances their desire to be a reader as they grow. I love to encourage parents to read to their child each day. That 15 minutes of storytime has so many wonderful benefits! In addition to parent/child read-aloud time, families can also include online read alouds and audio books as part of their child's literacy activities. These online books can really help to increase the time your kids spend reading and being read to -- use them in the car when your running errands or in the evening while while you're preparing dinner. We've found some wonderful websites that offer stellar books which are read aloud to your child. And a BIG bonus is that they are all FREE! , A Bad Case of Stripes , and The Polar Express
Dreamreader Teachers Hub @ Harpercollins We have a wide range of resources available to support our titles in the classroom. To browse our teachers’ notes, author profiles, reading lists and more on the HarperCollins Website, please click here. You can directly download our 2014 Education Catalogue here. Michael Morpurgo also has his own dedicated teachers resources located here. Like this: Like Loading...
Picture Book Teaching Ideas Alphabetical List of Books: We have free teaching ideas and resources for hundreds of popular children's books. Browse the alphabetical list below by clicking on a letter and then choose a book cover! Return to the main Teaching Ideas Library contents here. The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds For anyone who has been afraid to express themselves - from a child in art class to an adult whose fear has shut down a long-held dream, Peter H. Reynolds' book The Dot (Candlewick Press) is there to remind us all to "Make your mark, and see where it takes you." We’ve lost count of how many editions The Dot has had - and the number of translations into foreign languages seems to change every few months. Suffice to say, The Dot has "made its mark" around the world - and continues to do so. Explore activities, reviews, testimonials and frequently asked questions about The Dot, the first in a trilogy that explores creative expression and human potential...
The Red Tree, by Shaun Tan ~ A Unit of Study (Yr 4 upwards) This lesson plan sequence provides students with the opportunity to develop their literal and inferential comprehension skills with the use of a fictional text. This unit of study includes predicting, discussing and viewing before assessing students’ comprehension abilities. Arts Ideas can also be incorporated into this unit. Year 4 English: Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603) Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension (ACELT1605) Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692) Year 5 English: Introduction/Warm up: LESSON 1. Body: LESSON 2.Read the text to students – just READ! Suggestions about what to talk about LESSON 3. LESSON 4. Show You Tube Clips:
KS2 Book Topic: The Arrival If you’re looking for a book to inspire creative writing and artwork with upper KS2 children, then why not try The Arrivalby Australian illustrator, Shaun Tan? This wordless picture book invites readers to explore a strange new world in the company of a migrant who must leave his family and everything he’s ever known to make the long and difficult journey to another land. Here, everything is different: language, buildings, customs, food – even the pets seem alien. Seeing this world through the traveller’s eyes, we are as confused as he is. But the city’s inhabitants have their own stories to tell and everyone helps out. The Arrival deals with some pretty big questions and is far from being a childish story. 1 Share the book Prepare your children for the experience to come by exploring a strange old suitcase full of intriguing objects. Once you’re ready to share the book, consider projecting the pages onto a big screen so that everyone can see each image clearly. 2 Encourage discussion
Creating Readers and Writers: Teaching with Toys One Idea Use any set of stacking rings to illustrate the idea that things must go together in a certain order to "make sense." Play around with the rings and purposely arrange them out of the logical order. Ask the children, "Does this look right? Does this make sense?" Discuss how this toy has an order that makes sense just like our stories do and when we have parts that are out of order, our stories don't make sense either. Who doesn't love a Slinky? For greater engagement during this activity, provide a small Slinky to each child (or pairs of children). This is a great lesson to do at the beginning of the year because it's about creating writing identities and realizing that our lives are important enough to write about and share with others. A Few Ideas These cheap popping toys are easy to find in discount stores. I love when we finally get to the part of the year when I feel like the kids are ready to elaborate in their writing. Tell me more, tell me more, I don't think I can wait,
Six Writing and Grammar Lessons and Activities WeAreTeachers is pleased to welcome guest teacher-blogger Tiffany Rehbein. Tiffany is a high school English teacher and writes the Core Grammar blog at Sadlier School. Find Tiffany’s blog as well as free grammar and writing lessons, activities and games over at Sadlier’s PubHub. The best way to improve students’ writing is to have them, well, write. The Perfect Meal Writing Activity, Grades 2–6 Move over hamburger paragraphs! Did you try out one of these ideas? Tiffany Rehbein has been a high school English teacher for 10 years.
For Teachers - Allen & Unwin - Australia Welcome to teachers resources page. These pages are especially for teachers and librarians to assist you in the promotion and teaching of literature in schools and to help foster a love of good books and reading in children. Novels, non-fiction, class set suggestions, teacher reference books, books for preschoolers: you'll find them all here. It is our aim to help you in the classroom so in this section you will find teachers' notes for over 70 of our books, book reviews by other teachers, book-linked activities for the classroom and lots more. Our best book for Schools 2015 August to December catalogue is now available.