The Red Shoes Teacher Resources

Students explore the concept of literature themes. In this theme lesson, students watch a video segment of "The Red Shoes." Students discuss the author's message regarding friendship and then write a friendship essay.

Four red shoes are featured in this video, which has viewers identify which item doesn't belong. This is a great film to show before a lesson on classification.

Practice color words and following instructions with a set of worksheets. Kids read each description on the side of the page about a person's hair color and clothing colors, and color the parts of the illustration accordingly.

Young writers will enjoy clowning around with this instructional activity that asks them to use clues in Katie's story to infer what is happening. Careful readers won't be tricked. The activity is a real treat.

In this demonstrative adjectives worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they use this, that, these, and those to fill in the blanks in 13 sentences.

In this Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison activity, students answer fifteen multiple choice questions about plot, characters, and theme as well as identify quotations.

Students discuss the use of connectors and sequence words. They discuss common story endings and beginnings. Students brainstorm ideas for a creative story and compose a story for the rest of the class.

In this ESL word search worksheet, students read about the clothes in Sam's wardrobe, then find the words naming the clothes in a word search puzzle.

For this parentheses worksheet, students review the uses for parentheses and several examples of their use. Students then place parentheses around words or phrases in the sentences.

For this reading comprehension cloze worksheet, students are instructed to fill in blanks with any word or phrase that "fits." The paragraph is about a shopping trip. Possible answers are given.