Literature Activities & Games
Literature Games are a fun and exciting way to bring literature alive! Nancy Polette provides dozens of game ideas in her book, The School Librarian’s Grab Bag. Games include:
§ Jack and the Beanstalk Games
§ A Fifty States Scavenger Hunt
§ Peter Pan Logic Puzzle
§ Book Title Scavenger Hunt
§ Robin Hood Logic Puzzle
§ Swiss Family Robinson Logic Puzzle
§ Tricky Titles
§ Name the Character, Say the Rhyme
More ideas:
My Favorite Ways to Introduce a Book: A Scholastic Website
This article is excerpted from Unwrapping the Read Aloud: Making Every Read Aloud Intentional and Instructional, by Lester Laminack
A to Z Teacher Stuff: Literature Activities
A to Z Teacher Stuff is a great website. This section focuses on literature activities for grades Preschool through High School. Dozens of literature activities: Dr. Seuss, Folktales and Fairy Tales, Jan Brett, Laura Ingalls Wilder, 100th day of school, polar bears, Call of the Wild lesson plan, Curious George, and much more!
Carol Hurt’s Children’s Literature Website
This website includes: a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics
Literature: Online activities for Upper Elementary grades
Reading Exercises, Fact or Opinion Quiz, Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, Reading Strategies, online literature activities, and online stories for kids.
an interactive, online jeopardy game. Hook up your computer to a projector and display it on the big screen - Play with the whole class! Decide how many teams and how many players.
Dozens of categories: Authors from A to Z: Poetry, Mysteries & Detective Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Fables and Fairy Tales, and more!
