Two master teachers share 15 ready-to-use lessons for using engaging picture books to teach literary elements such as point of view, voice, irony, theme, metaphor, simile, and more. For each literary element, you'll find a clear definition; a detailed picture book-based lesson that incorporates before-, during-, and after-reading strategies; and writing and extension activities. The carefully chosen picture books and thoughtful lessons give you an invigorating and illuminating way to teach literary elements-and promote student reading and writing. For use with Grades 4Ð8.

Teaching Literary Elements With Picture Books: Engaging, Standards-Based Lessons and Strategies

Van Zile, Susan

Napoli, Mary

Children's Books

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)

In this unique resource, a teacher shares her hands-on activities for teaching students literary elements. Activities like Setting Pop-ups, Paper-Chain Characters, Plot Mini-Book, and Theme in a Bottle help students "learn by doing." The activities build on students’ multiple intelligences, giving all students a chance to learn information in the way they learn best. Includes reproducible student direction sheets and rubrics. For use with Grades 4-8.

Awesome Hands-on Activities for Teaching Literary Elements

Zile, Susan Van

Reference

Teaching Resources

Collects activities, simulations, reading strategies, literature group management tips, response projects, and discussion prompts based on five survival theme novels.

High-Interest Literature Units Survival: Teacher-Created Lessons and Activities That Use Favorite Novels to Motivate Kids to Read, Write, and Discuss

Education & Teaching

Kanavy, Joan

Schools & Teaching

Scholastic Teaching Resources

Easy Learning-Rich Activities That Tap Into Students' Multiple Intelligences and Bring Excitement and Fun to Your Grammar Lessons\n\nBy Susan Van Zile\n\nClassroom Tested! \nDo you know students that groan at the mere mention of the word grammar? This teacher-written resource will help you motivate kids to learn -- even enjoy -- grammar. Hands-on activities like Foil the Fragments, Great Sentence Caper, and Vivid Verb Cheers encourage students' creativity and help them remember the concepts they need to know. Also includes mini lessons, rubrics, reproducibles, and photographs. Make this an enriching addition to your grammar lessons!\n\n80 pages 8-1/2" x 11"\nGrades 4-8

Awesome Hands-on Activities For Teaching Grammar

Help students increase their comprehension and organize their writing with this collection of 20 highly motivating, reproducible graphic organizers. Mini-lessons help teachers introduce each organizer and provide directions for use. Also includes student samples that model how to use the organizers. For use with Grades 4-6.

Reading & Writing Graphic Organizers & Mini-Lessons (Best Practices In Action)

A master teacher shares her meaningful, student-centered lessons and activities that have helped her meet national and state standards. Includes models and rubrics for teaching informational, narrative, persuasive essays. Perfect for engaging students and helping them succeed on the tests!

Mastering the 5-Paragraph Essay (Best Practices in Action)

Teaching grammar becomes fun and interactive with this book that uses the SMART Board’s features to actively engage students in meaningful learning. Lessons cover a range of topics including run-on sentences, comma splices, helping verbs, verb tense, confusing verb pairs, singular and plural nouns, possessive nouns, prepositional phrases, and more. Reproducible practice pages support on-the-board instruction. A great way to help students improve their grammar and writing skills! Correcting Comma Splices and more! For use with Grades 4-8.

15 SMART Board Lessons for Tackling Tough-to-Teach Grammar Skills (Teaching Resources)

Lena, Amy

Ewert, Jessica

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

Three master educators and literature experts just made planning reading instruction much easier—and learning literary elements more engaging. This resource compiles more than 100 annotations of new and classic picture books that model the use of key literary elements and appeal to grades 4-8 students. Organized by eight key literary elements—setting, point of view, plot, characterization, theme, foreshadowing, flashback, and figurative language—each section includes an introduction to the literary element, an annotated list of books describing why they work well for the selected literary element, and two literary-element-focused lessons on specific books. For use with Grades 4-8.

Using Picture Books to Teach 8 Essential Literary Elements: An Annotated Bibliography of More Than 100 Books With Model Lessons to Deepen Students Comprehension

Ritholz, Emily

Tap into the power of picture books to help teach key literary elements! This complete toolkit includes: • 8 high-interest picture books, hand-picked by literature experts to facilitate a dynamic way of teaching of setting, point of view, plot, characterization, theme, foreshadowing, flashback, and figurative language, • 8 companion teaching guides, one for each picture book • 8 colorful posters, one for each literary element • Recommendations for meeting Common Core State Standards • The professional resource, Using Picture Books to Teach 8 Essential Literary Elements For use with Grades 4-8.

Literary Elements Toolkit

Give students authentic reasons to write with this collection of stimulating project-based learning activities. Each unit starts with a driving question that propels students to do research, investigate, collaborate, and communicate their results through multimedia and digital presentations, such as movies, advertisements, and podcasts. Includes student exemplars and reproducible planning sheets and rubrics to scaffold student investigations and writing.

Writing: A Project-Based Approach

Hussey, Julie

Eyster, Alyssa

Education & Reference

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