In partnership with the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the LAII developed a curriculum guide to provide hands-on art activities and literacy exercises to bring Día de los Muertos to the classroom.

This guide to the story Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh provides educators with synopsis, reviews, and lesson activities for teaching and discussing the story in the classroom, complete with a list of related core standards.

The best practices in this document were included as part of USBE's 2023 summer professional learning sessions of the new English Language Arts standards. Additional resource links have been included in some instances to provide additional information.

This is a computer science lesson plan created by educators in the South Sanpete School District. After reading Hello Ruby: Expedition to the Internet, students will answer several questions to determine the key details of the text. Afterward, students will create a puzzle in which they demonstrate how people are connected to others and information through an internet network. The lesson is designed for kindergarten and includes modifications for grades 2-3.

In this article, the author shows how school librarians and elementary teachers can help students create science lapbooks. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which is structured on the seven essential principles of the climate sciences.

Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.

In this lesson, students practice a way to communicate without words by using a glyph. They create a name card using information about themselves. Students also interpret glyphs made by others.

This nearpod lesson provides modeling, guided practice, and independent practice for students to determine the meaning of, read, and create compound words via interactive slides.

This article describes the importance of teaching students the strategy of note taking and includes a template for use with elementary students.

Teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem.

Students in K-5 enjoy this lesson during their "Library Time" every year during the month of April, which is National Poetry Month.

Read words with the long "e" sound with NYCDOE Universal Literacy Reading Coach Anna Stretching-Cole. Students will blend words and read words with a specific focus on the long "e" sound (ee, ea).

This lesson is an Apple technology integrated lesson designed to help students practice reading for accuracy, fluency and expression. Students will practice an perform a readers theater or choral reading of their choice and record it with sound effects for a finished product.

Review words with long "o" and long "i" sounds with NYCDOE Universal Literacy Reading Coach Vida Nazemian. Students will segment words, break words into their individual sounds, review vowel teams for long "o" and long "i", and build, blend, and read words and sentences.

The importance of reading aloud to children is an established tenet of reading instruction. This lesson supports the language development and reading comprehension of kindergarten through second graders. Through the use of the text talk strategy, students explain, develop, and expand story ideas. This lesson is designed to help students learn how to gain meaning from words that are taken out of their original context.

In this edition of Utah's Online Library Product & Librarian Spotlight, Dani Sloan and Melinda Overson, a librarian from Bryce Valley High School, explore NoveList Plus. NoveList Plus is a database of book recommendations for all library workers who do readers' advisory.

This lesson encourages young students to see themselves as writers with a message to convey. Three types of reports are provided to show what kindergartners and emergent writers can do.