Children's Literature Lesson Plans, Authors Taback-Turner

A Picture is Worth … A Thousand Different Stories: Using Visual Media to Engage the Imagination and Enhance Skills for Analyzing and Synthesizing Information
This extensive unit includes uses Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback to teach sequencing in Lesson Plan Two.

The Garden of Happiness by Erika Tamar
Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a writing task, and other learning activities. Word processor required for access.

Destiny's Gift by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
This teacher's guide includes summary and background information, prereading questions, vocabulary, discussion questions, ideas for literature circles and reader response, writing activities, strategies for ESL/ELL, and interdisciplinary connections.

It Jes’ Happened by Don Tate
This teacher's guide includes summary and background information, prereading questions, vocabulary, discussion questions, ideas for literature circles and reader response, writing activities, strategies for ESL/ELL, and interdisciplinary connections.

Penguin Chick by Betty Tatham
Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a writing task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.

The Novels of Janet Tashjian
This 16-page document includes an author interview and discussion questions for these novels: Tru Confessions , Multiple Choice , Fault Line , The Gospel According to Larry , and Vote for Larry . Adobe Reader or compatible application required for access.

Sweet Music in Harlem by Debbie Taylor
This teacher's guide includes summary and background information, prereading questions, vocabulary, discussion questions, ideas for literature circles and reader response, writing activities, strategies for ESL/ELL, and interdisciplinary connections.

George Crum and the Saratoga Chip by Gaylia Taylor
Pre-reading activity, discussion guide, and ideas for projects, including vocabulary study.

George Crum and the Saratoga Chip by Gaylia Taylor
Synopsis, prereading questions, vocabulary words, postreading discussion questions, literature circle roles, reader response writing prompts, ELL/ESL strategies, and interdisciplinary learning activities for social studies, science, and art.

Coyote Places the Stars by Harriet Peck Taylor
Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.

Coyote Places the Stars by Harriet Peck Taylor
This writing task includes prompt, graphic organizer, and a model essay. 5 pages; word processor required.

Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean by Sarah Stewart Taylor and James Sturm
Summary, discussion questions, and crosscurricular projects.

The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Lesson plans and teaching materials for the novel.

Sacred Mountain: Everest by Christine Taylor-Butler
This teacher's guide includes summary and background information, prereading questions, vocabulary, discussion questions, ideas for literature circles and reader response, writing activities, strategies for ESL/ELL, and interdisciplinary connections.

Dear Mrs. Larue by Mark Teague
Lesson plans: writing activities, vocabulary, assessments, more.

The Lost and Found by Mark Teague
Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.

Look! by Kyra Teis
A variety of activities for early literacy development.

Red Riding Hood by Jane Tesh
Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.

The Baker's Neighbor by Adele Thane
Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.

The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas
Scroll to page 5 of this document to find a summary of the 12 free-verse poems, 9 learning activities, and related titles. Adobe Reader required.

One Riddle, One Answer by Lauren Thompson
Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.

One Riddle, One Answer by Lauren Thompson
This writing task includes prompt, graphic organizer, student handout, and a model essay. Emphasis is on providing evidence to support an inference. 6 pages; word processor required for access.

Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell
Questions with emphasis on economic concepts of opportunity cost, economic wants, goods and services, trade and money, scarcity, consumers, and price.

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Summary and learning activities, including character analysis, research, practice with figurative language, journal prompts, vocabulary, writing, literature circle roles, more. 8 pages; Adobe Reader required.

Katie's Trunk by Ann Turner
Students note details as they read. Includes text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a culminating task, and additional learning activities. Word processor required for access.

Katie's Trunk by Ann Turner
This packet includes writing prompt, graphic organizer, student handouts, and a model essay. Emphasis is on providing evidence to support an inference. 6 pages; word processor required for access.