Children's Literature Lesson Plans, Authors Haddix-Hesse

Margaret Peterson Haddix
Lesson plans for Among the Hidden , more.

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.

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.

Summary, discussion questions, and a writing activity. This 4-page document requires Adobe Reader or compatible application.

This teacher's guide offers a pre-reading activity, comprehension and discussion questions, and ideas for post-reading projects.

Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.

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.

Donald Hall
Resources for teaching Ox-Cart Man .

Virginia Hamilton
Lesson plans and activities for The House of Dies Drear and other works.

Practice with reading skills like making predictions, word study, contrast with Jan Brett's Comet's Nine Lives , and extension activities. The entire document has 112 pages; lesson plans for this book begin on p. 33. Adobe Reader required. Designed for grade 2.

Students identify causes and effects, practice making predictions. Includes background information and vocabulary. Follow tabs to downloadable chart, worksheet. Designed for grade 1.

This teacher guide offers discussion questions using Bloom's Taxonomy, pre-reading and prediction questions, and ideas for projects that address multiple intelligences.

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.

Four learning activities.

The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig. Reading Skills and Strategies. Adobe Reader required for these resources.

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  Author biography, background information, character list, vocabulary words.
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  Students work with cause and effect, synonyms.
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  Students work with summarizing, context clues.
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  Given a definition of allusion , students find historical allusions in the book.
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  Students explore how a character's reaction to a situation reveals his/her personality. Includes writing task.
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  Students analyze how the details of each setting evoke an emotion.
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  5 discussion questions and 5 post-reading activities.
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  10 questions.

Students learn about income and short-term savings goals. Part of the Wise Pockets project.

Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.

Kindergarten and first grade students will become familiar with adjectives by reading Ruth Heller's book Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives . They will also be able to use adjectives to describe an object in their own writing.

Students play with words as they explore how prepositions work in Ruth Heller's picture book Behind the Mask . They first explore the use of language in the text and identify how prepositions are used. They then read and identify prepositions used in a poem. Finally, students compose their own original prepositional poems, which they publish in a multimodal format modeled on Heller's text.

Kevin Henkes
Lesson plans for Chrysanthemum and other books.

The author offers suggestions for a wide variety of learning activities and a list of vocabulary words. 24 pages; Adobe Reader required.

Three activities to develop literacy skills.

This reading group guide includes discussion questions and ideas for postreading activities.

Karen Hesse
Lesson plans for A Light in the Storm , Out of the Dust , and Letters from Rifka .