Children's Literature Lesson Plans, Authors Lachner-Lewin


A simple, concrete lesson to illustrate the power of anger to travel from one person to another and to linger in the environment even after the immediate emotion is gone. This lesson supports Andrews Angry Words by Dorothea Lachner and is designed for grades K-5.


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

Nina Laden
Lesson plans for teaching The Night I Followed the Dog , Private I. Guana , Romeow and Drooliet , and When Pigasso met Mootisse .


This teacher guide offers pre-reading and prediction questions, discussion questions, and ideas for post-reading projects.


How might students use storyboards to demonstrate and to extend their learning? Check the resources here. Includes vocabulary, compare and contrast, character map, theme, more. Note: Storyboard That helps sponsor this site.


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


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


Online text of stories written by the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.


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


After reading Robert Lawson's Ben and Me , writers will be inspired to take themselves back into history and retell a famous event from an animal's or an object's point of view. Writers will thoroughly research their topic and brainstorm who or what could help their historical facts come alive. Through the use of believable "voice," students will convince their audience of how history actually happened. This lesson focuses on voice and organization.

Kathryn Lasky
Lesson plans and teaching resources for Dear America, Royal Diaries, and other books.


Summary, analysis, and 6 sets of discussion questions based on themes in the story.


Biography, text of children's poems, and drawings.


Audio files of several poems by Edward Lear, including "The Owl and the Pussycat" Files are in alphabetical order by poet; scroll down.


Pre-reading activity, vocabulary, and activities by chapter to develop literacy skills.

Helen Lester
Lesson plans for Tacky the Penguin .


Phonics lessons and comprehension questions.


A series of 6 video clips with emphasis on Henry's Freedom Box and The Tree that Would Not Die .

Gail Carson Levine
Lesson ideas for Ella Enchanted , more.


Anticipation guide, discussion questions, brief author interview, and post-reading activities. This 2-page document requires Adobe Reader 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.


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.