Children's Literature Lesson Plans, Authors Taback-Turner
   
    A Picture is Worth … A Thousand Different Stories: Using Visual Media to Engage the Imagination and Enhance Skills for Analyzing and Synthesizing Information
   
   
   This extensive unit includes uses
   
    Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
   
   by Simms Taback to teach sequencing in Lesson Plan Two.
  
   
    
     The Garden of Happiness
    
    by Erika Tamar
   
   
   Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a writing task, and other learning activities. Word processor required for access.
  
   
    
     Destiny's Gift
    
    by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
   
   
   This teacher's guide includes summary and background information, prereading questions, vocabulary, discussion questions, ideas for literature circles and reader response, writing activities, strategies for ESL/ELL, and interdisciplinary connections.
  
   
    
     It Jes Happened
    
    by Don Tate
   
   
   This teacher's guide includes summary and background information, prereading questions, vocabulary, discussion questions, ideas for literature circles and reader response, writing activities, strategies for ESL/ELL, and interdisciplinary connections.
  
   
    
     Penguin Chick
    
    by Betty Tatham
   
   
   Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a writing task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.
  
   
    The Novels of Janet Tashjian
   
   
   This 16-page document includes an author interview and discussion questions for these novels:
   
    Tru Confessions
   
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    Multiple Choice
   
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    Fault Line
   
   ,
   
    The Gospel According to Larry
   
   , and
   
    Vote for Larry
   
   . Adobe Reader or compatible application required for access.
  
   
    
     Sweet Music in Harlem
    
    by Debbie Taylor
   
   
   This teacher's guide includes summary and background information, prereading questions, vocabulary, discussion questions, ideas for literature circles and reader response, writing activities, strategies for ESL/ELL, and interdisciplinary connections.
  
   
    
     George Crum and the Saratoga Chip
    
    by Gaylia Taylor
   
   
   Pre-reading activity, discussion guide, and ideas for projects, including vocabulary study.
  
   
    
     George Crum and the Saratoga Chip
    
    by Gaylia Taylor
   
   
   Synopsis, prereading questions, vocabulary words, postreading discussion questions, literature circle roles, reader response writing prompts, ELL/ESL strategies, and interdisciplinary learning activities for social studies, science, and art.
  
   
    
     Coyote Places the Stars
    
    by Harriet Peck Taylor
   
   
   Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.
  
   
    
     Coyote Places the Stars
    
    by Harriet Peck Taylor
   
   
   This writing task includes prompt, graphic organizer, and a model essay. 5 pages; word processor required.
  
   
    
     Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean
    
    by Sarah Stewart Taylor and James Sturm
   
   
   Summary, discussion questions, and crosscurricular projects.
  
   
    
     The Cay
    
   
   by Theodore Taylor
   
   Lesson plans and teaching materials for the novel.
  
   
    
     Sacred Mountain: Everest
    
    by Christine Taylor-Butler
   
   
   This teacher's guide includes summary and background information, prereading questions, vocabulary, discussion questions, ideas for literature circles and reader response, writing activities, strategies for ESL/ELL, and interdisciplinary connections.
  
   
    
     Dear Mrs. Larue
    
    by Mark Teague
   
   
   Lesson plans: writing activities, vocabulary, assessments, more.
  
   
    
     The Lost and Found
    
    by Mark Teague
   
   
   Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.
  
   
    
     Look!
    
    by Kyra Teis
   
   
   A variety of activities for early literacy development.
  
   
    
     Red Riding Hood
    
    by Jane Tesh
   
   
   Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.
  
   
    
     The Baker's Neighbor
    
    by Adele Thane
   
   
   Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.
  
   
    
     The Blacker the Berry
    
    by Joyce Carol Thomas
   
   
   Scroll to page 5 of this document to find a summary of the 12 free-verse poems, 9 learning activities, and related titles. Adobe Reader required.
  
   
    
     One Riddle, One Answer
    
    by Lauren Thompson
   
   
   Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.
  
   
    
     One Riddle, One Answer
    
    by Lauren Thompson
   
   
   This writing task includes prompt, graphic organizer, student handout, and a model essay. Emphasis is on providing evidence to support an inference. 6 pages; word processor required for access.
  
   
    
     Mailing May
    
    by Michael O. Tunnell
   
   
   Questions with emphasis on economic concepts of opportunity cost, economic wants, goods and services, trade and money, scarcity, consumers, and price.
  
   
    
     Three Times Lucky
    
    by Sheila Turnage
   
   
   Summary and learning activities, including character analysis, research, practice with figurative language, journal prompts, vocabulary, writing, literature circle roles, more. 8 pages; Adobe Reader required.
  
   
    
     Katie's Trunk
    
    by Ann Turner
   
   
   Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.
  
   
    
     Katie's Trunk
    
    by Ann Turner
   
   
   This packet includes writing prompt, graphic organizer, student handouts, and a model essay. Emphasis is on providing evidence to support an inference. 6 pages; word processor required for access.