Lesson+Plan+Ideas

=Joy's Lesson Plan Links=

I'm providing links to some of the things that I had hyperlinks to in my Curriculum Framework that you couldn't access because those hyperlinks are to my computer. I hope you'll find something here that might be of use.

My PowerPoint on evaluating the reliability and usefulness of books and websites.

I use this as discussion starter under the document camera.

Pam Flowers had written emails detailing how her book went from her manuscript through the editor and illustrator. I use them to teach the process to my third-graders, then we compare the finished pictures in the book to the rough drafts, and finally read the story!

When I use this, each student is assigned a different book, magazine, or website--some good ones, some out of date, some too hard, some too easy. They have to figure out which theirs is and why.

I make a game for each child (they can take them home) by running off a game sheet and folding it up a third and stapling it. Then I cut up the entry words and put them in the folded pouch. They have to stack them on the game sheet beside the appropriate guide words.

I made these up into posters to teach Dewey with the book "The Library Gingerbread Man."

This is a lesson on copyright.

I use this with my 4th graders after we have studied the parts of a book. They bring their textbooks and find the parts!