Pilinut Press Reference Desk

The Reference Desk provides free lesson plans, articles on developing reading-related skills, reading score information, book discussion questions, word games and puzzles, and activity sheets for our entertaining and educational books.

Free Lesson Plans:

(Listed by book title and then subject matter for the lesson)

“Danny and the Detention Demons”—Word Focus

“Little Bianca” —Art Lesson Plan: Expressing Emotion with Color

“Little Bianca” —Economics

“Little Bianca” —Word Focus

“The Snickerdoodle Mystery”—Science Lesson Plan: Solving Mysteries Using the Scientific Method

“Webb’s Wondrous Tales” — Art Lesson Plan: Art Content for Book Illustrations

“Webb’s Wondrous Tales” —Writing Lesson Plan: Writing Fairy Tales

“Webb’s Wondrous Tales”—Science Lesson Plan: Learning about Butterflies

Complete Listing of Articles:

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Editing:

Editing Your Writing

How to Edit Writing Like a Professional

How to Fact Check

Teaching Editing

English as a Second Language (ESL/ESOL):

Developing English Listening Skills

ESL Teaching Tips

Improving your English for ESL Students

Improving Vocabulary—Seven Ideas for ESL Students

Keep Your English Up to Date

Learn English through its Proverbs

Spelling Tips for ESL Students

Start an “English Speaking” Club

Tips for ESL Students on Increasing their Vocabulary by Learning Business Terms

Parenting: (Check other categories as well. Most of our articles are written with you in mind.)

Creating a Home Library

Developing Good Homework Habits

Picking the Right Book: How to Use Readability Scores#

Pilinut Press Glossaries: How We Pick the Words

Preparing Your Child for School

Preparing Your Child to go Back to School

Toddlers Learning by Data Mining

Publishing: (Check other categories as well, particularly Editing and Writing and the Editing Reference Lists.)

Annotated Examples of a Book Cover and Interior Layout

Book Binding by Hand

Is Self Publishing for Me?

Options for the Self Publisher

Reading:

Breaking the Alphabet Code — The Key to Reading, Spelling, and Writing

Book Clubs for Boys

Choosing a Gift Book for a Child

Encouraging Children to Read: Five Strategies for Developing a Bookworm

Enriched Summer Reading Program

Help Your Child Learn to Read

Helping Your Child Learn to Read—4 - 6 years old

Helping Your Child Learn to Read—24 to 36 Months

Helping Your Child Learn to Read—12 to 24 Months

Helping Your Child Learn to Read—Up to Age 1

Look it Up — How to Use a Dictionary

Nurturing a Gifted Reader

Reading Goals for Kindergartners

Reading Goals for First Graders

Reading Goals for Second Graders

Reading Goals for Third Graders

This is What You Should Not Do When Encouraging a Child to Talk and Read

Toddlers Learning by Data Mining

Spelling:

Preparing for a Spelling Bee

Spell Better by using these Spelling Strategies

Spelling Tips for ESL Students

What Spelling Champions Know Can Help Your Child Spell Better

Teaching:

Cloze Worksheets—What They Are and How to Make Them

ESL Teaching Tips

Ideas for Making a Book as a School Project

Teaching Editing

Using Trade Books in the Classroom

Writing:

Help Your Child Learn to Write

Overcoming Writer’s Block

Writing Articles for the School Newspaper

Writing Books for Preschoolers

Writing Business E-mails

Writing Fairy Tales

Vocabulary:

Building Vocabulary through Activities

Building Vocabulary: 5 Ideas for Increasing Your Vocabulary

Five Ideas for Increasing Your Child’s Vocabulary While Running Errands

Improve Your Vocabulary by Knowing These Latin Prefixes

Improving Vocabulary—Seven Ideas for ESL Students

Improving Vocabulary in Three Easy Steps

Increasing Vocabulary through Independent Reading

It was Greek to Me: Improving Your English by Knowing Greek Roots

Kids and money — developing financial understanding by learning the vocabulary of money

More Word Games to Increase Vocabulary

Sing a Song and Learn New Words

Word Games to Increase Vocabulary

Free Teaching Aids:

Printable Worksheets:

Activity Sheets

Basic Alphabet Code

Coloring and Lettering Sheets

Word Searches#

Editing Reference Lists:

Auxiliary Verbs (also called helping verbs)

Capitalization Rules

Common Grammatical Errors

Contractions

English Irregular Verbs

Most Commonly Misspelled Words

Commonly Misused Words

Pronouns and Their Uses

Tautologies

The Highly Irregular Be Verb

Using Adverbs

Verb Tenses, Mood, and Voice

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Glossaries:

Glossary of ESL Terms

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