Learning With Literature

Robinson Crusoe | Robinson Crusoe | Robinson Crusoe Blooms taxonomy literature unit plans for 2 classic tales - Robinson Crusoe and a bonus unit of Gulliver's Travels. Ideal for grade 4-5. Taught and tested and very popular with the kids.

Blooms taxonomy literature plan for E. Nesbit's two best known works. Graphic organisers and Writing/creating ideas. Road tested by my students. NOTE: I have just updated this unit to include more material on Five Children and It. same price but about 20 more pages of student tasks and teaching ideas!

Mrs Pepperpot un-expectantly shrinks to the size of a pepperpot one day and also develops the ability to communicate with animals. She has many incredible adventures along the way that can be read about in self-contained chapters (ideal I would say for reading at bed at night) like the Mary Poppins stories. Mrs Pepperpot is a wise, generous but sometimes surly character created by Alf Proysen in post war Norway. A champion of the rural poor , there is a hint of old style folk tale about his stor

The Dolls House was written by renowned English author Rumer Godden after World War Two. She wrote popular award winning novels for adults and children and The Dolls House is one of her best known. It has been in print since 1947. There are many books based on the world of toys and dolls (The ‘Velveteen Rabbit’, Noddy,the superb ‘Mouse and His Child’ as well as the subversive Sock Monkey stories by Tony Millionaire) but The Dolls’ House is in my opinion the best example of its kind. This is the

A Blooms Taxonomy literature unit for English author, Robert Leeson's iconic 1970s children's mystery tales 'The Demon Bike Rider'

Blooms Literature activities for the award winning graphic novel Captain Congo and the crocodile King.

Blooms Literature unit plan for Heidi.

Some printables and teaching ideas for Allan Ahlberg's Happy Family Books.

Puffin are currently releasing the ‘Eerie’ series of readers by S. Carey (4 have been released as of April 2013 with more to come) in Australia. They are designed to appeal to reluctant readers grade 3-6 (and older) who are attracted to Goosebumps style horror books. For non-Australian TPT buyers the books should be available directly from Puffin or eventually through Amazon. This is a selection of English activities and writing ideas for the first 4 books in the series.If they prove popular I'l

I don't normally post my Christmas Literature work. (Tasks I develop in reading mostly for my multi-age classroom in the last week or so before our Christmas breakup but this year I decided to do it. One of the reasons I don't do it is because I like to use new Christmas picture story books every year and they usually only appear once in print (unlike The Grinch) and because it is usually designed to meet the needs of individual students in my class. This year is no different but I thought what

Teaching ideas for the classic French books about the cheeky, adventurous French boy Nicholas. These are activities suggested for the first book in the series of five.Text by René Goscinny, with illustrations by Jean-Jacques Sempé. Also includes some printables and graphic organisers. Free for a short time.

Aboriginal art and writing activity