Aliki
Lesson plans and other teaching resources

How a Book is Made
Using Aliki as an author, this series of pages explains how a book is produced. It is designed for young students.

How a Book is Made
Questions to help students understand the economic concept of human resources.

Marianthe's Story
A teaching guide for both "Painted Words" and "Spoken Memories," incorporating reading aloud, thematic and interdisciplinary activities. Accessing this site requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.

More books by Aliki
Activities with reproducible masters for My Visit to the Zoo, My Visit to the Aquarium, and Wild and Wooly Mammoths. These lessons incorporate both reading skills and interdisciplinary activities. Accessing this site requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.

My Five Senses
Cross-curricular activities using the book.

Using Senses in My Community
This lesson goes with My Five Senses. Students use all their senses to appreciate and celebrate the differences and similarities of shapes, colors, fruits, a rainbow and the human race, and therefore understand how humans depend on all our senses to understand the world.

As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
Students explore simile and metaphor. Rather than placing the emphasis on learning a list of formal figures of speech, this process initiates play and discovery of the "wondrous words" that make up the books they explore in this ocean unit. This lesson is designed for use with The Sea House by Deborah Turney Zagwyn or My Visit to the Aquarium by Aliki.