Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are and other stories

Maurice Sendak
Biographical information and timeline.

Maurice Sendak: Imagination and Art
These standards-based lessons based on Sendak's work are divided into two parts. Part 1 is for grades K-2; part 2 is for grades 6-8.

Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak
Vocabulary, literacy, and crosscurricular activities for this book. Access requires Adobe Reader or compatible application.

Elements of a Story
This lesson plan uses Where the Wild Things Are to teach concepts of setting, character, problem (event), and solution in a story.

Where the Wild Things Are
This lesson plan integrates science and math activities with language arts.

Wild Things
Students use Legos to create their own wild things, then write about them.