Before you submit your children's book to publishers learn how to format your children's manuscript first! Here is the easy guide to help you look like an expert.
Are you classroom teacher looking for engaging ways to teach your students to comprehend stories? Read this post for primary ideas on how to get children to learn to visualize and build reading comprehension.
Pre-K books to read. Best Repetitive Predictable Text Pre-K and Kindergarten books. A book list with repetitive words and phrases and predictable text to help build literacy skills for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten
Writing a children’s story? From planning to publishing your story, teach your child to write a story with this guide on writing stories for children.
Our guest today is a 30 Days or Less alumna and the author of a charming children's book. As you can imagine, writing a book for children is no easy feat, especially for a first timer. Carrie agreed to tell us about the process that took her from a simple idea she had while working
Book clubs for children are a great way to get children reading new books. It can be hard to choose books that are appropriate for the tween years though. I put together a list of perfect homeschool book club books. They inspire conversation and even include a related craft idea.
Books for teaching sequencing should have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Here are 16 great books for kindergarten or first grade.
Book Inspired Kids Crafts Roundup - I Heart Crafty Things A big hello today to all of you lovely Glued to My Crafts fans! My name is Rachel and I blog
Are you looking for new classroom management read alouds? Try out these picture books ideal for the primary classroom!
The best read-aloud books for preschoolers. Examples of how to use interactive prompting to help your child learn how to read.
Hundreds of high-quality short play scripts for elementary school students. Download a pdf script today!
Share Wildflower Ramblings!I am excited to bring you the best rhyming books for children! We created a free printable book list to take with you to the library, so you can easily read these with your kids — check it out below!! We have chosen some classics for babies, toddlers and preschoolers, and some collections...
Help your 1st grader develop of love for reading with these 20+ first grade read aloud chapter books! These stories will help their imagination soar.
Check out the best books to read preschoolers or children ages 2 years old to about 8 years old. Baby and toddler books provide the first window into the world and allow the opportunity to introduce a variety of topics and subjects. These preschool books and stories for kids will be cherished in your home or classroom.
If your kids enjoy reading this genre, most likely they'll enjoy writing fantasy themselves. See our fantasy writing prompts for middle school and beyond!
Explore our collection of spooky stories that can set the mood for an eerie, yet fun evening. Share the thrilling stories with children and keep them engrossed.
A collection of children's stories with links to their perfect Classical Music pairings, great for inspiring imaginative movement.
We love book themed crafts and activities so I am so thrilled about today’s post because it is filled with the cutest ideas including Chicka...
Make storytime even more fun with these easy book crafts you can do with your kids that pair perfectly with their favorite book.
Before you write your idea for a kid's book, you need to understand these 3 things. This free children's book template outlines everything you need to get started.
This giant list of art projects based on children's books will help your students connect art to literature and make some fantastic artwork in the process.
The best children’s books about disability every kid should read. This is a list of 21 must-read children’s books that feature characters with disabilities.
Learn how to teach making predictions to help your students develop strong reading comprehension skills with these three favorite read alouds.
You can teach anything with children's picture books: Science. History. Writing. Math. Cooking. And Art. Especially art. Because picture books are an artform. I'll be writing a Five Day Series this week about connecting children's literature to art. Monday through Thursday I will be sharing four art project ideas inspired by children's picture books. On Friday I have …
Looking for new ways to get your kids to read more books? Try sharing one that has been turned into a movie! Reading children's books that have been turned into movies can entice your most reluctant readers. As a bonus, they provide ample opportunities to compare and contrast the two.
We are always inspired to do fun crafts and learning activities whenever we read some of our favorite children’s books! Here is a list of activities we’ve come up with inspired by popular children’s books (alphabetized by title). (Book titles are affiliate links.) Be sure to follow our Children’s Book Activities Pinterest board! …
Do you want to learn how to write a children's picture book? Read this ultimate guide to help you know how to start before you even have an idea in mind!
When it’s time to teach my students to summarize, I love to use the Somebody Wanted But So Then (SWBST) strategy. Today I want to share a few tools you can use when teaching this reading strategy.
Over the years, we have done many, many crafts. A handful of what we have done were inspired by books! Books are my little one's absolute favorite thing. At 6, she loves her chapter books, but we
Books are great learning tools for teaching little kids about big emotions! Help them learn WHAT different feelings are & HOW to handle them.
We love connecting projects to books, and we're always inspired by the amazing group of bloggers who participate in the Virtual Book Club for Kids (you can also check the club out on Facebook) as the group comes up with some great extension activities each month. This month's author was Leo Lionni. We chose to read and do a project using a book we've really been enjoying lately, A Color of His Own. This is the sweet tale of a little chameleon who is looking for one color to stay all the time, but keeps running into that challenge that chameleons change color. In the end, he winds up finding a friend to always be with so they can at least always be the same color together. I've used this book in the past as a primary teacher. It's a great way to talk about friendship and also about what makes us each unique. My boys have been loving the simple tale and the colorful illustrations this spring. For our activity extension we decided to use cray-pas and watercolors. I love how colorful this art technique can be. I sketched several chameleon outlines onto white drawing paper using permanent marker. (I'm including a printable copy here in case you just want to print one out, or use the printable to trace onto thicker paper.) Afterwards the boys and I each colored in a chameleon using the cray-pas. Big Brother and I thought about ways to create different patterns. Little Brother focused on just coloring his in, using mostly one color. After we were done coloring, we watercolored on top of the cray-pas. The watercolor doesn't stick to the cray-pas, and fills all the white spaces around it. We all had different strategies for painting. When they were done I cut the three chameleons out and we hung them in our play room. I love how they are a set but each one unique. That's part of what can also make this project a great classroom activity, especially for the start of a school year. Or turn it into a fun family project, with each family member creating a chameleon to represent themselves. What Leo Lionni books does your family enjoy? Have you read this one yet? This post may also have been shared at some of these terrific link parties.
These are some of the most popular and best-loved books for circle time! They're wonderful other times as well, even in my own home at bedtime.
Teaching growth mindset can be done with read-alouds! Rosie's Glasses is a great book for this. Get ideas for using this book to teach being positive.
A teacher’s guide to teaching social-emotional learning in the classroom. This guide has articles, children's book suggestions, videos, and a program filled with lessons and activities.
Learn how you can use mixed language Spanish-English books to support your child’s learning—plus, our favorites for Spanish beginners!
Give families the resources they need to read with their kids each week with easy to prep take home book bags.
Pull up a blanket on the grass and check out these wonderful summer stories for kids. There are lots of new favorite summer books for preschoolers!
Inference is an important skill for students to learn in order to really dig deep into a text. People use inference every day to make sense of the things people say and do. Students use inference all the time, but they need some guidance in learning how to use the strategy with a text.
These FREE Printables and Unit Studies for Eric Carle's Books will help you expand on what your kids are learning through these beloved books.
