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Ideas + Resources

Free guides, activities, and teaching ideas.
Start with a book or find what your readers need.

The last page
is just the
beginning.

What will your readers discover?

Select below to find activities, articles, and listening for your readers.

Have a book in mind?

Select a title to find its guides and activities.

Works with any book

Make a book your starting point.

Start with flexible picture-book activities. Adapt them to your readers and choose a book that fits the lesson.

Flexible activities

Visual Literacy Classroom Toolkit
Grades K–5 · PDF · 11 pages · 1.3 MB
Use the pictures to notice facial expressions, motion, and details the short text leaves for readers to infer. K–5 toolkit, with teacher adaptation for Pre-K.
General picture-book activities
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Interactive Reading Lesson Kit
PDF · 14 pages · 0.3 MB
Invite readers into a story through interactive reading techniques. Includes Bear Snores On, Jam, Too?, and Mahogany as examples.
Adaptable; named-book examples
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Improv Story + Heart Mapping Lesson Plans
PDF · 8 pages · 0.5 MB
Use collaborative storytelling and heart mapping to explore ideas, personal connections, and community.
Flexible storytelling activities
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Creative Writing Lesson Kit
PDF · 14 pages · 0.6 MB
Explore narrative structure and writing with picture books. Choose a narrative picture book that fits the lesson; examples include We Love Fishing!.
Requires a suitable narrative picture book
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An illustrated story begins with an idea. — Illustration by Magali Le Huche

Start here. Take it further.

Need a more participatory read-aloud? Start with the first selection. Want readers to look more closely at illustrations? Try the second. Each article, activity, and episode works on its own.