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
,
Multiple Choice
,
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.