Learn more about the five finalists for the first annual Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award.

Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.

As a class, students work in small groups to create a "100th Day" book.

Children love books that rhyme and to create their own rhymes. It's a fun way to learn how words sound similar to one another!

Use the online Trading Card Creator tool to have children make cards describing their favorite characters from the books on their reading list.

Choose favorite rhyming songs or nursery rhymes then replace the rhyming words with seasonal themes.

Find three fun online games that are designed to help children learn to recognize letters and how they sound.

While enjoying a book that features a journey, children write postcards from the perspective of the main character for each stop along the trip.

After reading If You Give a Moose a Muffin, have a "Muffin Party"! Children will write invitations, follow a recipe, and enjoy sharing their homemade muffins.

Kids learn about weather sayings throughout history while writing and illustrating a book for younger children.

Children incorporate materials from outdoors with paints or crayons to create pieces of art to display on their clotheslines, fences, or porches for a neighborhood art show.

Using a variety of artifacts, mementos, and technologies, teens can create an electronic scrapbook of their most important moments in high school.

Students read a section from On the Road that deals with cross-country travel and reflects Kerouac's unique writing style. Students then attempt to write a narrative using Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness style.

The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.