Margaret Wise Brown
Lesson plans and teaching ideas for Goodnight, Moon , The Important Book

The author's official site.

This 5-day unit plan includes literacy activities, related links, and cross-curricular connections.

Students will identify word patterns and words from a selected list of 12 content words that appear at least twice in the book.

This lesson begins on p. 30 (34th page of document). It includes pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading questions and activities, extension activities, and a take-home activity. Adobe Reader required. This document is very large; let it load completely before you work with it.

A writing activity to accompany the book.

Summary, analysis, and 3 sets of discussion questions based on different elements of the story.

Follow links on the left for student instructions and teacher lesson plan. This writing lesson focuses on idea development and organization.

Students develop awareness of why reading is important for everyone. Students will learn that some students do not have access to books in the same way they do and will decide how they can take action to ensure others have access to books.