High Frequency Readers #18 : What Is It Literacy Program

What Is It? (High-Frequency Readers Book 18)

Blevins, Wiley

Tarlow, Ellen

scholastic

Arnold Lobel’s lovable, quirky characters and simple, rich stories are perfect for helping children explore themes such as friendship, cooperation, tolerance, and overcoming fears. This resource includes a profile of the author; before- and after-reading discussion ideas; and activities that teach about story elements, build vocabulary, and connect to science, social studies, art, and more.

Teaching With Favorite Arnold Lobel Books: Engaging Activities That Teach About Theme, Plot, Character, and Setting and Celebrate These Beloved Books

Education & Teaching

Geist, Ellen

Schools & Teaching

Teaching Resources

Inspire a love of literature in young learners while teaching them to identify and explore the story elements essential to every good book. Includes reading discussion ideas, reproducible graphic organizers and hands-on cross-curricular activities geared toward diverse learning styles. Children decorate and fill a treasure box that reflects the character of Miss Rumphius, paint a picture timeline to investigate plot in Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, create "fantasy world" trading cards to explore setting in The Polar Express, and much more! For use with Grades 1-3.

Teaching Story Elements With Favorite Books (Grades 1-3)

Chambliss, Maxie

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

In this sweet and gentle picture book, Bear wakes one day to find his Smile gone and enlists his friends to help him find it. Bear and Smile are always together. They wake up together, swim by the waterfall together, and eat honey together. But one day, Bear wakes up and Smile is nowhere to be found. With the help of his woodland friends, will Bear be able to find his Smile again? This tender and special debut picture book explores sadness with a light touch and shows that sometimes a good friend can make all the difference.

Looking for Smile

Children's Books

Animals

Beach Lane Books

Mole Catches the Sky

Mole lives underground, but she wishes she could catch the sky and bring the sun s warmth and light and the cool breeze into her home. Her friends, Squirrel, Bird, and Frog, try to help by grabbing a handful of sky as a special gift for Mole. Down, down, down they go into the darkness . . . Can Mole's friends make her dream come true? Mole soon discovers that the best gift of all is the friendship they share.

Star Bright Books

Mole lives underground, but she wishes she could catch the sky and bring the sun s warmth and light and the cool breeze into her home. Her friends, Squirrel, Bird, and Frog, try to help by grabbing a handful of sky as a special gift for Mole. Down, down, down they go into the darkness . . . . Can Mole s friends make her dream come true? Mole soon discovers that the best gift of all is the friendship they share.

A clever and moving picture book about finding out what it means to be yourself—in this case, what it means to be Blue!\nBlue wants to be Red. Red is exciting and funny and fascinating. She gets to fight fires and swing from trees and tell cars to STOP. But it turns out trying to be Red isn’t as fun, or as easy, as Blue thought it would be. What might happen if instead of trying to be like Red, Blue tried to just be Blue? Come along with Blue on his journey to self-discovery, self-acceptance, and self-love.

Becoming Blue

Growing Up & Facts of Life

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Books by Tarlow, Ellen

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What Is It? (High-Frequency Readers Book 18)

Teaching With Favorite Arnold Lobel Books: Engaging Activities That Teach About Theme, Plot, Character, and Setting and Celebrate These Beloved Books

Teaching Story Elements With Favorite Books (Grades 1-3)

Looking for Smile

Mole Catches the Sky

Mole Catches the Sky

Becoming Blue