Hi Are you looking for a story which would be appropriate for this occasion. I suggest “The House in the Night” by Susan Marie Swanson which has received the Caldecott Award recently. It is a masterpiece . Although the story is not Chinese, it is a moon story. I developed a lesson plan which you [...]
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Hi I posted a vocabulary lesson plan for “The Little Scarecrow Boy” by Margaret Wise Brown. Many more activities can be done with this book (free form poem). You can find it in learning units/weather, or use the search engine.
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Hi You’ll find the LP in Literacy Units/traditions. Or use the search engine. Looking for the book? There are 55 copies in the Toronto Public Library network.
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Hi all I posted lesson plans based on “Stellaluna” and “Owl Babies” . Nonfiction books are also part of the units. Ready for dowloading and free. enjoy. Two poetry books for Halloween: “Hist Wist” by e.e. cummings, & Scary, Scary Halloween” by Eve Bunting, ill. Jan Brett. ( all short poems)
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Hi I posted her revised version of Thundercake. It’s in the “weather” section.
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Hi all, Are you looking for something different for the fall theme. Try a sub-unit on honey. I posted under the category “plants” a four- page extended lesson plan on “The Bee Tree”. There is so much for the children to comprehend and the vocabulary to gain.
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Hi all I posted the integral whole unit on pumpkin called Pumpkin Thematic Unit. If you text the lessons, please send me some feedback. Monique
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Hi all, You are most likely planning your “fall” literacy curriculum. To assist you in this journey, I posted a very long unit (26 pages) that covers sub-themes such as rain, mushrooms in the rain, apples, leaves, and hibernation of bears. All lessons can be scaled up or down. Actually some have an “adjust” feature [...]
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Hi, I posted a new lesson plan which would help teachers who are new to this comprehension strategy. I used “Changes, Changes” by Pat Hutchins for this lesson, but you could use any other wordless book providing it is appropriate for this age group.
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Hi all, What Elmer, Mixed-up chameleon, Color of his own, Chamelon’s colors, Leon the chameleon have in common? They are typical “wish stories” with a moral component. I posted a detailed LP in literacy units/living things/lizards . Go ahead, read it and save it. Test it and give me some feedback.
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