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Lesson Plans
Download Lesson Plans for Your Classroom!
These hands-on lessons, divided by age range, will inspire reluctant readers and advanced readers alike. Scroll down for a list of plans.
 Special Highlight:
Because of Winn-Dixie Lesson Plans
Author Kate DiCamillo's novel Because of Winn-Dixie received the Newbery Honor Medal in 2001. The story, released as a major motion picture in 2005, is about a girl named Opal, her dog, and the little town of Naomi, Florida.
Walden Media’s on-staff educators have developed this four-week Winn-Dixie teaching unit for grades 2 through 5. It should culminate with a viewing of the film. The included activities, downloadable worksheets, and discussion points address language arts, mathematics, and science. The structure of this unit also assumes that students will keep a journal as they read. View the lesson plans.
Pre-K
- Colors of the Rainbow
Children will learn the basic concepts of primary and secondary colors and how to do crayon scratching similar to scratchboard illustrations, all through the use of colors represented in the rainbow.
- Finger Painting & Feather Painting with Nature
Teach young children how to recreate the look and feel of objects in nature, also they will explore fingerpainting and painting with feathers.
Grades K-2
- Making Movable Books
Help children understand the various parts of a book and their correct names, increasing their literacy skills.
- Paper Art
Teach students the artistic styles that children's book illustrators employ when using paper in illustrations such as cut paper collage, employing die-cut pages for effect, and using objects as a stencil for relief printing.
Grades 3-5
- Book Swap
Kids can experience the publishing process first-hand by playing the role of both the author and the illustrator. The twist? As in the publishing world, they will not be illustrating their own story.
Grades 6-8
- Art as Storyteller
By reading biographies and picture books about famous artists and carefully examining their work, students learn to "read" the story communicated in a painting.
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