Parent's & Educator's Guide to Picture Books: Lesson Plans & Activities

Picture books make reading fun! While these books are popular choices when reading to younger children or teaching them how to read, they truly offer a versatile appeal for all ages. Whether you are looking for picture books to use at home or in the classroom, you will find suggestions for stories to cover an array of topics, themes, holidays, concepts or even just shared reading time. Selections included in this guide are often paired with activities and lesson plans which are either based on popular books, or incorporate those stories into the learning activity and goals of the lesson.

The Honey Hunters: A Lesson in Equal Sets Young students can learn the hazards of not sharing fairly when you begin with with a picture book. Unlike the quarreling animals in the book, can students solve this problem of sharing?...	A Problem and Solution Book List for Teachers Get well on your way to a collection of problem and solution books for Kindergarten to fourth graders with this list....
Summer Reading Camp Lessons for Struggling Readers Are you looking for ideas to incorporate into summer reading camps and lessons? This article will help students master inferencing, summarization, cause and effect relationships...	Interactive Reading Activities for Preschool Students Get your class engaged in circle time by including some of these preschool interactive reading methods. This article includes tips and tricks to making circle time and reading time...

A Problem and Solution Book List for Teachers

Get well on your way to a collection of problem and solution books for Kindergarten to fourth graders with this list....

First, Next, Last: Teaching Story Sequencing to Preschoolers

Story sequencing is a concept that may seem easy to you, but can be a challenge for some preschoolers to grasp. Before teaching important sequence connector words such as first, next, then, finally and...

Multiple Meaning Words: Lesson Plan and Activities

This vocabulary lesson plan on multiple meaning words is a great to teach homographs to students. Using picture books, sample sentences, and real-life contexts can help students to fully understand this...

Learning Through Play: Activities for Children with Dyslexia

Do you have child with dyslexia? This article provides a number of activities which help in learning through play. These activities will help him/her to overcome dyslexic learning difficulties...

Big and Little Lesson Plan Activities

Introduce the concept of opposites to students with these big and little lesson plan ideas for preschool children. This article includes books and literacy activities and math, science, art, and writing...

Teaching Preschoolers About Prejudice with Picture Books

Little children are generally free of prejudices and hatred. The teacher is an important resource to use teachable moments to demonstrate tolerance and acceptance. Here are some picture...

Teaching Reading Skills with Picture Books

Children are fast learners. To become proficient in language, they are to be introduced to the world of alphabets, phonics and sounds. Picture books that teach reading skills are the...