These BFG activities are the perfect accompaniment to the book or the movie. Read/watch the story and then your kids can have fun with these easy activities.
Leo Lionni is a favorite author for the primary grades. His wonderful mouse stories and interesting illustrations have become his trademark. Lionni’s books are all written around a second grade level, and he is a fantastic choice if you’re interested in an author study. The Life and Times of Leo Lionni As a child, Leo ...
I love finding unit studies and free printables to go along with books that we are reading in our homeschool. Adding extra resources to what we are reading can really add to the fun and give your children extra learning experiences.The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner was one of the first chapter books I remember reading when I was little. The story always resonated with me and is one I don't ever forget. This is a classic book that I think everyone should read. If your children enjoy this book, they may also enjoy the entire series. There are 19 original books in this fun mystery series, and many, many other books have been created as spin offs.
Learn why one-pagers are one of my go-to activities for breaking down complex topics and texts. Understand what they are, why you and your students will love them, and how to implement them in your ELA classroom. I even have the advice to help you tackle the biggest obstacle you’ll encounter with this activity.
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Need Wonder activities for your classroom or home school Wonder teaching resources? We have Wonder lesson plans, Wonder worksheets, and more ideas for book projects, kindness activities for middle school, and diversity lessons to make a great study unit for students using both the novel by RJ Palacio and teaching with movies (including the popular precepts project!).
As most readers will tell you, there is something quite disturbing about a character who loves dogs one moment and is terrified of them the next, or who has pants on at the beginning of a line of d…
Creative Writer Worksheet – Writing Study Guide (PDF) This week marks the end of our year of creative writer worksheets. From a multitude of possible topics I had to choose one last worksheet, and here it is! I hope this worksheet will serve as a reminder to keep studying and improving yourself as a writer. There’s always more to…
Character interviews increase both the ease of writing a new character and his success in driving your plot. Grab my master list of interview questions!
Skeleton drafting is the technique you can use to plot intricate, action-packed, emotionally charged books quickly as a fiction author.
Use this page to help you understand the “tone” for any article or story that we read in class. If you understand the author’s tone, you will most likely understand the main idea …
Comprehension Connection is a literacy website dedicated to providing teaching tips and resources for instruction for K-5 teachers focusing on comprehension.
Creative Writer Worksheet: Private Symbols (PDF) Lately (probably spurred by my study of the Rider-Waite Tarot), I’ve been fascinated by the idea of developing my own private catalogue of symbols. Combining private connotations (memories, experiences, studies), with public denotations (definitions, myths, shared fictions) and exploring all those storeys of meaning in my writing. Of course,…
Learn how to develop a story and read ten steps to a plot that has structure, momentum and the ingredients readers love.
Jami Gold's Writing Worksheets: Help for all writers, from newbies to experts and from plotters to pantsers.
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Teach author's purpose with PIE (persuade, inform, entertain). No prep printables, task cards, a sorting activity and more! Great for Accelerated Instruction Groups! TEKS 3.10C TEKS 4.10A...
As I continue through my “author study” story times, this week we looked more closely at the work of Karma Wilson. I found that most families were familiar with her popular Bear series, but may not be as familiar with her other work. I chose three books that she wrote that were not in the Bear series, but had wonderful qualities nonetheless. Hilda Must Be Dancing is a great story filled with rhymes. Each time Hilda danced, I had the kids stomp their feet (which they loved!), Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo was a little long so I shortened it by skipping some of the “adjective lines” only reading the final line with all the words together. This is a great story that can be used to learn new vocabulary words, and for Sleepyhead the kids job was to put their miniature teddy bears or Beanie Babies to sleep. We have a number of rainbow-colored teddy bears that we use for story time programs and during Yoga Story Time, the kids all use a Beanie Baby at the end while they lay in star pose and practice their deep breathing. Overall, the kids did a great job and I think they really enjoyed Hilda Must Be Dancing the most! If you’re looking for a complete list of work by Karma Wilson, check out her website! Opening (ASL Sign: Bear) Traditional: Put Your Hands Up In the Air & Open Shut Them Yoga: Warm-Up (Rock n Roll, Zip up Spine, Deep Breaths, Cat/Cow, pounce from child pose (lunge forward), Dog) Book 1: Hilda Must Be Dancing Transition Traditional: 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Yoga: Sun Salutations (Mountain, Reach Up, Touch the Ground, Hands at Knees (flat back), Plank Pose, Cobra, Downward Facing Dog, Walk Toward Hands, Repeat) Book 2: Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo Transition (changes weekly) Traditional: Rock-A-Bye Your Bear (Wiggles CD) (with teddy bears) Yoga: Water Animal Poses (Dolphin, Frog, Turtle, Fish, Flamingo) Book 3: Sleepyhead (use teddy bears/beanie babies with story) Closing Traditional: Shake Your Sillies Out Puppet Show Yoga: Cool-down (Bridge, Happy Baby Pose, Star Pose/Deep Breaths) & Namaste
Last year, we took a little looksie at Farmer Brown from “Click Clack Moo” to learn how to write a character description. This year, we focused on “The BFG”. As I’ve mentioned before, this is one of my absolute favorite read alouds, and it is the only story that I consistently read with a voice. …
Late in the day, but here they are. And one more. This time, just for fun! :D
These character packets will help you organize your characters’ traits in one central location. Have you ever written a character who had short, lustrous hair in chapter one and frizzy ankle-…
This study guide and infographic for Homer's The Iliad offer summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.
Character arc has many elements - inner & outer motivation, inner & outer conflict, fears, misbeliefs, emotional wounds and more.
We already get a One-liner and synopsis of our story. And now we need to construct the full story for the Movie. There is an established and verified structural framework to build up your Story: Th…
The Very Ugly Bug isn't happy with how she looks and she wishes that she looked more like the grasshopper with his smooth green back, the shiny blue bug...
This study guide and infographic for William Wordsworth's Poems of William Wordsworth (Selected) offer summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.
