Grade(s): 3
Subject(s): English Language Arts
Year: 2023
Lesson
The lesson highlights Thomas Preston Jr., the November nominee of the 2024 SC African American History calendar. It also discusses the importance of reading.
Lesson
By reading picture book biographies, students will become familiar with the challenges that early African-Americans faced, but also how they triumphed in spite of these challenges. Also, other stories...
Video
Written and Illustrated By: David Ezra Stein Read by: Jessica Easterbrook It’s homework time for the little red chicken, who has just learned about something every good story should have: an elephant...
Lesson
The students will be able to retell a text; beginning, middle and end, while using key details to determine the theme in a text heard or read.
Lesson
Students will have the opportunity to read three different versions of the story Cinderella. Over the course of a week, students will compare and contrast the three stories.
Video
Juan Felipe Herrera, the son of Mexican migrant farmers, grew up in the San Joaquin Valley in Southern California. As a child, he attended school in a variety of small towns from San Francisco to San...
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Carmen Agra Deedy has been writing for children for over two decades. Born in Havana, Cuba, she came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1964. She grew up in Decatur, Georgia, where she lives today. Learn...
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Red discovers something is wrong with grandma. The Gullah voiceover for this folktale was recorded by Gullah artist Anita Singleton-Prather.