Eve Bunting, Fly Away Home and other books
Lesson plans and teaching ideas

The Artifact Road Show
This strategy will work well with many books; Dandelions is among those suggested.

Dandelions
Summary, discussion points, and suggestions for activities.

Dandelions
Students compare modern houses with sod houses. Includes craft activity.

Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
Summary, discussion questions, activities, and related books.

Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
Activities to accompany this book. This file requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for access.

How Many Days to America?
As a post-reading activity, students explore their own family's background.

Jin Woo
Suggestion for a post-reading letter-writing activity.

The Memory String
Suggestion for a post-reading activity.

The Night Tree
A post-reading activity. Access requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or compatible application.

Peace Poems and Picasso Doves: Literature, Art, Technology, and Poetry
This writing activity would work well with Smoky Night.

St. Patrick's Day in the Morning
Cross-curricular follow-up activities related to the Irish and St. Patrick's Day.

Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
Guiding questions, lists of key terms and concepts.

Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past
"This lesson for grades 6-8 uses Bunting's book Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust to begin a comparative study of the experience of European Jews during the Holocaust, Cherokees during the Trail of Tears, and Japanese-Americans during World War II."

My 3-Day Lesson on Courage
This unit uses both Terrible Things and Smoky Night to help second-graders learn about courage.

Train to Somewhere
Discussion questions, ideas for a follow-up activity.

The Wall
Discussion questions and follow-up activities.

The Wall
Summary, discussion questions and follow-up activities. Access requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or compatible application.

The Wall Questioning Strategies
A teacher explains her process using sticky notes to model questioning and making connections during reading.

The Wednesday Surprise
Ideas for cross-curricular follow-up activities.

The Wednesday Surprise
Ideas for a follow-up activity.

A Video Interview with Eve Bunting
Links to short video interviews.