Before She Was Harriet: A Mentor Text for Sequencing
Before She Was Harriet is genius. Sequencing is a crucial comprehension skill that lays the foundation for understanding the order of events in a story...and therein lies the genius! Before…
The Polar Express Escape Game-Style Activities
Reading The Polar Express (or watching the movie) has certainly become a classroom Christmas tradition. From wearing pajamas and drinking hot cocoa, to completing a book study, this book is…
Christmas Read Aloud and Fun Activities: Dasher by Matt Tavares
If you need an uplifting Christmas read aloud for your classroom, Dasher is just the book for you! Let's look at this picture book that promotes kindness, bravery, and the…
Fiction vs. Nonfiction Scoot Game
Are you familiar with the game of Scoot? It is such a fun way to use task cards in the classroom. Scoot is easy to set up and it gets…
A Night Divided: YA Historical Fiction
"It was Sunday, August 13, 1961, a day I would remember for the rest of my life. When a prison wall had been built around us as we slept." A…
Three Hens and a Peacock Book Activities
Three Hens and a Peacock is a charming tale written by Lester Laminack that tells the story of an unlikely group of farm animals who learn to appreciate each other's…
7 Circle Stories for Making Inferences
Have you finished a book only to hear your littles say, "Oh no! It's going to happen all over again!"? Well, they are already making inferences and drawing conclusions.
Snowflakes and Stories: 6 Ways to Explore Snowflake Bentley with Your Students
These Snowflake Bentley activities are not your ordinary worksheets. This is a picture book challenge! Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin tells the story of Wilson A. Bentley, a photographer…