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Author: Katherine Paterson
Illustrator: Donna Diamond
Publication Date: 1977
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 3-5, 6-8
Approximate Text Level: DRA 50, Guided Reading T
Teaser: Jess always dreamt of being the fastest kid in school. When Leslie beats Jess in a race, he does not become jealous. He admires her. Together, they spend time imagining a world of their own...until tragedy strikes. Teaching Idea: Do a read aloud of the story. As you read, have the students draw the images that they are seeing painted in their imaginations. After completion, have students compare and contrast their unique images, and talk about how everyone has a different imagination.

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Author: Lynne Reid Banks
Illustrator: Brock Cole
Publication Date: 1980
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 3-5, 6-8
Approximate Text Level: DRA 40, Guided Reading R
Teaser: Omri received an old medicine cabinet from his bother for his birthday. Omari is not thrilled about his present, until he discovers what's inside.
Teaching Idea: Have students imagine what it must have been like for Little Bear and Boone in Omri's world compared to their own. Make a compare and contrast chart together as a class. Then, have students write post cards back home as if they were Little Bear or Boone.

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Teaser: Frederick Carlson, a former explorer, used to dream of traveling the world with his wife. After a sudden turn of events, he is traveling the world, however, not in the way that he imagined.
Teaching Idea: Have students think about how Mr. Carlson got to travel the world in his house. Ask students how they would want to travel the world, and have them draw a picture of it. Attach pom poms and make their drawings look like the house from UP. Then, have the students write down where they would like to go.

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Author: Don Freeman
Illustrator: Don Freeman
Publication Date: 1968
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: PreK-K, 1-2
Approximate Text Level: DRA 18, Guided Reading K
Teaser: In this short story, a stuff bear leaves the comfort of his home in search of a little girl to adopt him. With a little hope and imagination, maybe Corduroy will do just that.
Teaching Idea: Have students bring their favorite stuffed animals to school.  Have them create a journal for their stuffed animals as they partake on their own journey.

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Author: E. B. White
Illustrator: Garth Williams
Publication Date: 1952
Genre: Fiction/Short Story
Approximate Interest Level: 3-5, 6-8
Approximate Text Level: DRA 40, Guided Reading R
Teaser: Wilbur is the runt of the litter and the smallest of all of his brothers and sisters. When her father announces that he is going to kill the pic, Fern rushes to save him. Eventually, Wilbur befriends a spider and they become best friends.
Teaching Idea: Have students practice their vocabulary words by writing their words out of yarn like Charlotte did! They can first create their own web, and write their words throughout the web that they create.

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Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Publication Date: 1964
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 3-5, 6-8
Approximate Text Level: DRA 40, Guided Reading R
Teaser: Willy Wonka releases only a few golden tickets to gain entrance into his magical chocolate factory. Charlie can only dream of finding one of those golden tickets. Will Charlie's dreams come true in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Teaching Idea: Give each student their very own golden ticket. Then, have each student rewrite the story from their own point of view. Ask them what they think that the factory would have been like and give them specific details that must be included, such as sight, smell, and sound. Also have them include who they would bring with and why.

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Teaser: In this thoughtful poem, readers are forced to use their imaginations. Where does the sidewalk end?
Teaching Idea: Students are put into groups and each group is given a part of the poem to draw.  After finishing their pictures, they are then asked to put their pictures in order with the other groups, based on what they read in the poem.

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Teaser: Imagine walking through a beautiful forest, with birds chirping and the sun shining down through the leaves. Then, you meet a fork in the road with two different paths. This is what Robert Frost describes in The Road Not Taken.
Teaching Idea: Have students make a circle chart that contrasts the two roads. Have them predict what the poem is going to talk about, and then what the poem is actually talking about. In the circles, have the students write down the differences between road 1 and road 2. Then, have students discuss how their decisions don't always have to be what the social norms are.

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Author: Mary Hoffman
Illustrator: Caroline Binch
Publication Date: 1991
Genre- Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: PreK-K, 1-2, 3-5
Approximate Text Level: DRA 20, Guided Reading L
Teaser: Grace loves stories, and when she finds out that her school is putting on the play Peter Pan, she decides that she is going to be Peter. Although her classmates tell her that she is not a boy so she cannot play Peter, with a little imagination, Grace realizes she can do anything she puts her heart to.
Teaching Idea: Have students create their own character maps. Have them write their names in the middle, and draw lines from their name and write words that describe them connecting to their name. After this activity, go over some of the words that they came up with to describe themselves. Then explain how these words may describe them, but they do not define what they are capable of, just as Grace did not let herself be treated differently because she is a girl.
Teaching Idea Two: Using the Character Development method, have students note how much Grace changes throughout the book. Give them a worksheet that can help them brainstorm while reading.
Teaching Idea Three:  Boys will be boys, Girls will be Girls lesson. This lessons works towards breaking stereotypical normals.

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Teaser:  What's more fun the playing with legos? Learning while playing with legos!
Teaching Idea: Put students in groups of 4-5 and have them create their own story out of legos. Give them a topic sentence and have them build from that sentence.  Have them create their own characters and build their own creations. After they complete their stories, create a problem for their story and have them work together as a group to solve it.

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Teaser: In the middle of the night, Wendy and her brothers are flown away to an imaginary place called Neverland. With some magic and a little pixie dust, Peter Pan shows them the perks of never growing up.
Teaching Idea: Have students perform an activity/assignment each day, and every time they complete a task they move closer to Neverland on the map. When they get to Neverland, have a Peter Pan Party.

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Author: Crockett Johnson
Illustrator: Crockett Johnson
Publication Date: 1955
Genre- Short Story
Approximate Interest Level: PreK-K, 1-2, 3-5
Approximate Text Level: DRA 18, Guided Reading K
Teaser: When Harold goes for a stroll one night, he creates a landscape using only a purple crayon. While reading Harold's story through the forests and over seas, your imagination will run as wild as his journey.
Teaching Idea: Give each student a string of purple yarn. Have them create their own shape out of the yarn and glue it on a white piece of paper. After each student creates their shape, hang them around the room and have them come up with their own story using all of the shapes.  You could also have them create a 4 square map with the word of the shape that they created on the back of their paper.

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Author: Maurice Sendak
Illustrator: Maurice Sendak
Publication Date: 1963
Genre- Short Story
Approximate Interest Level: PreK-K, 1-2, 3-5
Approximate Text Level: DRA 16, Guided Reading J
Teaser: Follow Max the "wild thing" on his journey from his bedroom to the wild, where he finds the place where the wild things are. Using his imagination, Max becomes king of the wild things and soon learns how lonely this place can be.
Teaching Idea: Have students create their own "Wild Thing" using a paper plate. After each student creates their monster, have them write down on the inside of the plate "when I feel wild I..." and ways they can calm down when feeling wild.

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Author: Dr. Seuss
Illustrator: Dr. Seuss
Publication Date: 1975
Genre- Short Story
Approximate Interest Level: PreK-K, 1-2
Approximate Text Level: DRA 18, Guided Reading K
Teaser: "Oh, the things you can think!" Dr. Seuss expresses in this story of imagination and bewilderment. Dr. Seuss always encourages his readers to think outside the box, and in this story you realize just how creative your imagination can be.
Teaching Idea: Using construction paper, have students create themselves. On their bellies, glue a piece of paper with lines on it that says "Oh the things you can think!" and have them write down something imaginative.  Then, above their construction figures create a thought bubble and have them draw what they wrote down.

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Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Publication Date: 1982
Genre- Narrative
Approximate Interest Level: 3-5, 6-8
Approximate Text Level: DRA 50, Guided Reading U
Teaser: When Sophie meets the BFG, or the Big Friendly Giant, she learns that the other giants are not so friendly. She and the BFG must work together to stop the other giants from gobbling up
Teaching Idea: Give students a paper with a blank jar on it.  Have them write down a dream or goal that they have someday above the jar, and then have them draw what they wrote inside the jar.  They are collecting their dreams like the BFG.