Literary Connections

*Come Back Salmon: A group of dedicated students from the Jackson Elementary School in Everett, Washington, clean and restock a local stream to bring back the salmon that once spawned there.

*Read Aloud Guide

*Curriculum and Activities about Salmon (LOTS of great resources!)

*FREE the Rhine for Salmon: Read about the great salmon comeback on the Rhine River.

*Pacific Salmon in the Aquatic Biome (Lesson Plan)

*Something Fishy: Life Cycle of a Salmon Lesson Plan

*Salmon Homecoming (Activity Book for Kids)

*Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission(Yakama · Umatilla · Warm Springs · Nez Perce) Salmon Activity Book

*Salmon Activity: Hooks and Ladders

*Salmon Lessons: Salmonids in the Classroom, Salmonids in Troubled Waters, Salmon Links, Coloring Book, and Life Cycle of Salmon.

*The Magnificent Journey — this is a great online story of the life cycle of the salmon with a beautiful layout and illustrations.

*Salmon and the Ecosystem: A Curriculum for Grades Five through Eight

• Totem Pole
• If You Lived with the Indians on the Northwest Coast...
• How Can One Sell the Air?
• Goodnight World
• Creative Colors
• Northwest Native Arts: Basic Forms
• Dancing on the Rim of the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Northwest Native

American Writing (Sun Tracks). Andrea Lerner, ed. 1996.

This collection of contemporary Native American Writers from the Pacific northwest includes the prose and poems of 34 writers. This collection is unique and could be used as a reference book for those teaching about Northwest Native American culture.

• The People Shall Continue. Simon Ortiz; Sharrol Graves, il. 1994.

“The best overview of Native history for younger children that I have ever seen. Ortiz, the author, is Acoma, and a poet, and it shows. This is an epic story of Native American People from the creation to the present day, and it speaks in the rhythms of traditional oral narration.