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Tales
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Nursery Rhymes

Nursery Rhymes

Read and Color

Tales of the Mountain Men

Short Readers
Tales of the Chinese New Year (Short Reader; Grade 3-4 Readability)

Reading Comprehensions
Those Fanciful Tales (Grades 2-3)
The Canterbury Tales (Grades 5-7)

Reluctant Reader Books
My, Oh, My! Mummy Tales From Around the World (Grade 5-6)

Finish the Story
Tales of Tom Turkey (Grade 3-5)

Literature Book Units
     Nurse Matilda: The Collected Tales (Grades 3-6)
     The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Grades 5-7)
     The Canterbury Tales (Grades 9-12)
     Mouse Tales (Grades 0-2)
     Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Grades 2-4)

Read and Color Books

Ancient Greece Read and Color (PDF File)

Reading Comprehension Lesson Ideas

Biographies
(Grades 3-5)
     Enchanted
     Leif Ericson
     Stories with a Twist
(Grades 6-8)
     Astrid Lindgren
     Davy Crockett
     Edgar Allan Poe
     Hans Christian Andersen
     J.R.R. Tolkien
     James Pierson Beckwourth
     Katie Couric - Lady Correspondent
     The Brothers Grimm
     Washington Irving
(Grades 9-12)
     James A. Michener, the Born Storyteller
     Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Daily Themes
(Grades 1-2)
     The Books I Like
(Grades 3-5)
     "Kia and the Spiteful Splinter"
     Born on a Mountaintop
     Colcannon
     Days of Pirates, Part 1
     Famous for Fairy Tales
     Flying to Gramma's House
     Grandpa's Tall Tale
     Happy Spring Japan!
     The Book Drive
(Grades 6-8)
     Cowboy Poetry
     Lesson Learned
     The Tale of Patrick: Exile
     The Wedding of the Century (nonfiction)

Miscellaneous
(Grades 3-5)
     Gerald McDermott
     Gerald McDermott: Tale Spinner
     Gran's New Year
     Lewis and Clark: A New World (Natural History)
     Little Green Men
     Roald Dahl
     Seahorses Are Not Horses That Live in the Sea!
     The Lying ~NAME0~ Learns His Lesson
     Vision Quest, Part 1
     Why the Ostrich Hides its Head
(Grades 6-8)
     "It's a Joke!" Tom Said Swiftly
     A Dream Wedding
     Aesop and His Fables
     Alex Flinn
     Barbara Park
     Belle Starr
     Boccaccio
     Called it "Macaroni" — Joshua Barney: American Hero, Part 2
     Caste System in Ancient India
     Chivalry
     Discovering America II: 1805 (Fort Mandan-Pacific)
     Dragons
     East Meets West in Renaissance Literature
     Gary Schmidt
     Germany
     Giant Squids
     Gothic Literature
     How Do Electric Eels Produce Electricity?
     Ireland
     John Christopher
     King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
     Laura Amy Schlitz
     Lewis and Clark: Meeting the First Settlers (Native Americans)
     Life on the Unemployment Line - Riding the Rails
     Making the Mark with Archery
     Michael Scott
     Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster
     Obituary - a Brief Biography
     On a Ship to the New World
     Pilgrims Hit the Road
     Red Cloud: A Leader in War and Peace
     Road Trip: Arizona Style!
     Robin Hood
     Roger Lancelyn Green
     Russia
     Shadow Plays
     Star Wars Hits the Big Screen
     The "Witches" of Salem, Massachusetts: Part 1
     The Birth of the Hobbit
     The Hatfield and McCoy Feud
     The Titans
     The Twelve Olympians
     Tires
     Traveling with Your Pet
     Women Authors
     Yoshiko Uchida
(Grades 9-12)
     All the News That's Fit to Print - and Some That Isn't
     Ambrose Bierce
     Ambrose Bierce
     Ambrose Bierce
     Ancient Greece - How Did It All Begin?
     Anton Chekhov
     Geoffrey Chaucer
     George Shannon- Lost in the New World I
     Journey's End- Life after the Expedition I
     Ray Bradbury
     Religion and Education
     Sid Fleischman
     Unbirthday Parties and Other Celebrations from Children's Books
     York: Explorer/Slave

Stories
(Grades 3-5)
     The Spelling Bee
(Grades 6-8)
     A Hunger for History
(Grades 9-12)
     The Books of Time

Animals
(Grades 6-8)
     Octopuses
     Piranhas

Geography
(no assigned grade level)
     Ancient Egypt - Gods and Pharaohs
(Grades 3-5)
     Germany - Geography
     Ireland - Traditions
     Tournament of Roses Parade
(Grades 6-8)
     Norway - Daily life
     Uruguay - Culture: Horacio Quiroga

Finish the Story
     A Magic Ride (Grade 3-5)
     Smoke! (Grade 3-6)
     Turkey Surprise (Grade 3-6)

Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays
Birds of a Feather (Grades 1-3)
Question Mark Seeks Answers about Presidential Inaugurations (Grades 5-7)

Reluctant Reader Books
     Ogres (Grade 3-5)
     S Is For St. Patrick (Grade 3-5)
     H Is for Halloween (Grade 3-6)
     Amazing Sharks (Grade 4-5)
     C Is For Christmas (Grade 4-6)
     ID is for Idaho (Grade 4-6)
     NE is for Nebraska (Grade 4-6)
     Underwater Adventure, Book One (Grade 4-6)
     Werewolves (Grade 4-6)
     Vampires (Grade 5-6)
     Nessie and Friends: Famous Lake Monsters (Grade 5-8)
     Famous Cemeteries in the U.S. (Grade 6-8)

Nursery Rhymes

Nursery Rhymes

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