activity programs

Suggestions for teachers, librarians, or anyone in charge of a children's group, for providing fun, book-based programs using stories, poems, music, games, drama, and art.

Presents a selection of picture books, nursery rhymes, fingerplays, songs, games, and simple craft ideas to use for preschool storytimes, arranged alphabetically by theme, and including recommended resources, a bibliography, and a first-line index.

A whole-language thematic unit on Native Americans for use with intermediate children, based on the three children's literature selections "Annie and the Old One," "The Gift of the Sacred Dog," and "The Desert Is Theirs"; with lesson ideas, reproducible pages, and activities.

Contains reproducible picture cards with hands-on sorting games and activities designed to prepare pre-k and kindergarten students for reading.

Along with Frankie and his friends, kids take field trips to the beach and zoo, read 50 illustrated stories from 8 interactive books and discover 19 activities, which teach geography, science, early math, reading comprehension and music.

Explores the world of insects from tiny bugs to battling beetles, finding out how antennae work, what an ant's house is like, and why dragonflies can fly backward.

Provides tools for teaching five Gary Paulsen novels--"Hatchet," "Dogsong," "Woodsong," "The River," and "Brian's Winter"--in grades five and up, including writing prompts, comprehension and discussion questions, vocabulary activities, individual and group projects, and graphic organizers.