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Help students understand that Tall Tales are exaggerations about real people and places by using this map of real landmarks mentioned in Steven Kellogg's retelling of "The Tall Tale of Johnny Appleseed." This map demonstrates how Johnny's westward movement was paralleled by American pioneers. Use this as an activity to follow a reading of the book, or have students follow along on their map as the book is read aloud. You might also be interested in these other resources from the Creative Chemist

This activity is for use following a reading of Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss. It includes a lesson plan and a reproducible worksheet. Students will create a cross between two animals using traits from both. It is a lot of fun to see the creatures students imagine! This could be used as a fun introduction for young students to the concept of heredity as described in the NGSS: "LS3.A: Inheritance of Traits: Young animals are very much, but not exactly like, their parents. Plants also are v

This product includes lesson plans for nine 45 minute classes, needed worksheets and the project rubric. These lessons introduce five fiction genres: historical fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy, mystery and science fiction, allows students to sample different genres and become an expert in a specific genre through a poster project.

Who doesn't love the time-less, gentle and silly stories of author and illustrator Arnold Lobel? The exercises currently included in this bundle are for the Level 2 I Can Read Books Days with Frog and Toad, Owl at Home and Mouse Soup. If I add more in the future, you will be able to receive them for no additional cost! For each chapter from these books there are suggestions in the teacher instructions for pre-reading discussion, including words and phrases to preview with students. These wor

Who doesn't love the time-less, gentle and silly stories of author and illustrator Arnold Lobel? Or the adventures of Peggy Parish's well-meaning but literal minded Amelia Bedelia? The exercises currently included in this bundle are for the Level 2 I Can Read Books Amelia Bedelia, Days with Frog and Toad, Owl at Home and Mouse Soup. If I add more in the future, you will be able to receive them for no additional cost! For each chapter from these books there are suggestions in the teacher instr

For each chapter there are suggestions in the teacher instructions for pre-reading discussion, including words and phrases to preview with students. These words and phrases are also listed on the student worksheet. Each post-reading section on the student sheet includes 3 or 4 multiple choice reading comprehension questions and one free response. There is also one language review question that references back to the text. Answers are given in parentheses in the teacher instructions.  Find out if

This bundle includes my Fiction Genres Unit for Middle School Library and my Dewey Decimal Mini Unit for Middle School Library. The Fiction Genres unit includes lesson plans for nine 45 minute classes, needed worksheets and the project rubric. These lessons introduce five fiction genres: historical fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy, mystery and science fiction, allows students to sample different genres and become an expert in a specific genre through a poster project. The Dewey Decimal Mi

For each chapter of the book "Owl at Home" there are suggestions in the teacher instructions for pre-reading discussion, including words to preview with students. These words are also listed on the student worksheet. Each post-reading section on the student sheet includes 3 or 4 multiple choice reading comprehension questions and one free response. There is also one language review question that references back to the text. Answers are given in parentheses in the teacher instructions. Find out i

This is a bundle combining my Dinosaur Nonfiction Workbook and Dinosaur STEAM Activity. In this workbook integrating science, language arts and geography, students will be introduced to four dinosaurs and the concept of fossils through brief passages and black and white line drawings of each subject. Each passage is following by multiple choice questions about the passage. Print and copy the pages you wish to include in the student copy of the workbook. The passage pages can be included or om

In this activity, students will read two apple recipes: apple butter and applesauce. They will use Venn diagrams to organize their thoughts to create a paragraph comparing and contrasting the recipes. There are two options for the paragraph construction: a free-written paragraph with additional questions or a paragraph frame to make for easy differentiation.

There are three parts to this activity: the introduction to fossils and footprints, the experiment with how footprints can be used to learn about extinct animals and the art activity for students to reproduce how footprints from different situations might look. This product includes the lesson plan with suggestions for differentiation and required handouts, templates and observation sheets. In the first part, students will read or have read to them a nonfiction passage on fossils and footprin

This unit is for students who have a familiarity with decimals and have used the Dewey Decimal system to find books in the library before and are ready to learn more about how books are classified and shelved. This unit includes lesson plans, teacher notes, a student note packet, a student worksheet with a practice game and a quiz. The slideshow gives a brief history of the accomplishments of Dewey, what a decimal means in and out of the library, describes how books are classified in the system

In this workbook integrating science, language arts and geography, students will be introduced to four dinosaurs and the concept of fossils through brief passages and black and white line drawings of each subject. Each passage is following by multiple choice questions about the passage. Print and copy the pages you wish to include in the student copy of the workbook. The passage pages can be included or omitted from the student copy. It is intended that the teacher should read aloud the passages

The product was created for use with my Dewey Decimal Mini Unit for Middle School, however, it could be used as a free-standing lesson. This is meant for students who have a familiarity with decimals and have used the Dewey Decimal system to find books in the library before and are ready to learn more about how books are classified and shelved. It gives a brief history of the accomplishments of Dewey, what a decimal means in and out of the library, describes how books are classified in the sys

For each part of the book "Mouse Soup" there are suggestions in the teacher instructions for pre-reading discussion, including words to preview with students. These words are also listed on the student worksheet. Each post-reading section on the student sheet includes 3 or 4 multiple choice reading comprehension questions and one free response. There is also one language review question that references back to the text. Answers are given in parentheses in the teacher instructions. Find out if th

Join the Li'l Chemist as she investigates solutions. This investigation includes two simple experiments: color mixing and chromatography that introduce the concept of solutions as mixtures of distinct substances. Each experiment takes the students through the steps of the scientific method asking them to form a hypothesis, make observations and draw conclusions. Each experiment is followed by further explanation and an art extension activity. In the art extension, students will use their observa

These reading comprehension exercises are for use with the I Can Read Book Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish. For each section of the book this resource includes suggestions for pre-reading discussion and a word or words from the story to discuss that has multiple meanings. For each section, there are post-reading questions with answers given in parentheses. The student worksheet includes a pre-reading space for students to draw the meaning of the “Word(s) to Watch For” and a post-reading sectio

This unit is for students who have a familiarity with decimals and have used the Dewey Decimal system to find books in the library before and are ready to learn more about how books are classified and shelved. This unit includes lesson plans, teacher notes, a student note packet, a student worksheet with a practice game and a quiz. The answer key for this unit is available as a free download here. *Updated for 2020* The student pages are now available as a digital activity. This could be paire

Even adults have a hard time understanding how the Moon's appearance changes! This document includes the description for a simple demonstration that uses household objects to illustrate why the Moon has different phases and how the cycle repeats. This cross-curricular activity includes an observation sheet for gathering data about the demonstration. Following the observations is a paragraph frame for writing about the phases of the Moon.

This is a fill-in-the-blank book for children to write and illustrate about their library. It is appropriate for use in a school or public library. It could be used as a sub-plan, a follow up activity for a lesson introducing students to the library or an end of the year activity for reviewing the libraries purpose. Home schooled students could use this resource at their public library to guide and document their exploration.