Activities and Teaching Guides for Children's Literature
Examples (not necessarily in JDH Library)
- Lessons in Living: Incorporating Folklore into Young Children's Lives (ERIC Document #ED405962)
- A Guide to Storytelling in the Classroom in Hands On; n47 p50-60 Spr 1993
- Literature Guide to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (by Nancy Polette, Web Site)
- Keep the Lights Burning Abby: An Ask ERIC Lesson Plan (Web Site)
- Teaching Guide for Lois Lowry's Number the Stars (an Addison -Wesley Publication, 1995)
- Literature Unit for Island of the Blue Dolphins (part of a whole series by Teacher Created Materials)
- Who's Got the Slipper?, or, A Multicultural Unit of Cinderella Stories from Around the World (a Bon Mot Publication, 1993)
Find More...
- Indexes
- ERIC on the Web or select ERIC via EBSCO from the Databases list.
- ERIC indexes a tremendous number of lesson plans, activities, and teaching guides that are very to teachers and librarians. To limit your search to only these types of materials, use the Advanced Search and select one or more options from the Publication Type drop-down list, combined with your topic. Example: folktales and (Guides-Classroom Learner or Guides-General) (in publication type)
- Doucette Index of Teaching Ideas for Children's Books
- Indexes literature-based activities that are in books, anthologies, and on web sites. Excellent, free resource.
- Catalogs
- Search for your topic, and AND it with "study and teaching" or "teaching-aids and devices" in the Subject Heading search (or its equivalent) of your local library's catalog.
- Jim Dan Hill Library Catalog
- Superior Public (remember to limit your search to Superior Public, or you will get the holdings for the whole Northern Waters Library System!)
- WorldCat (requires proxy if off campus. Advanced search includes an option to limit your search to materials in English.)
- Browsing Your Library
- In this library and others using Library of Congress Call Numbers, browse this range of call numbers for literature activity guides:
- LB1573-1578
- Web Lessons