Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Teacher Resource File
Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Janet and Allan
Ahlberg page. Allan and Janet, before her death in 1994, collaborated
on wonderful books for children. Allan Ahlberg continues in that
tradition. You will find biography, bibliography, lesson plans and
other resources here. For other children's authors, see Children's Authors and Illustrators.
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authors. 7/22/02
[Biography]
[Lesson Plans]
[The Jolly Postman. Lesson Plans]
[Each Peach Pear Plum. Lesson Plans]
[Online E-Texts]
[Bibliography]
[ERIC Resources]
Biography
An
Interview with Allan Ahlberg
From Young Writer
An Interview with Allan
Ahlberg
From Achuka
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Lesson Plans
The Human
Skeleton Lesson Plan
From Learning About Me
Thematic Unit by Deb Lopez.
Funnybones
BBC
Education. Words and Pictures Lesson Plan
Final phoneme ll, ff and
ss
Activities and books. Miss Brick the Builder's Baby
by Allan Ahlberg
From BBC Words and Pictures, [consonants,
vowels,
high frequency word]
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The Jolly Postman Lesson
Plans
The
Jolly Postman - Improved by Your Students!
Grades 1-4 language arts; by Laurie Kennedy. From AskERIC Virtual Lesson
Plans
--Language Arts--Writing
Best
Practices: Math Concepts. Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman
Concepts "more than," "less than." Georgia Prekindergarten
Program
Design
a Fairy Tale Cookbook
From Teaching
is A Work of Heart. The Jolly Postman
Fairy
Tale Lessons
Space down for "Write a Friendly Letter" for grades 2-3.
From Teaching is a Work of Heart
Mrs.
Stredwick's Gallery
Combine The Jolly Postman with fairy tales
Regions of the
United States
Children wrote books modeled after The Jolly
Postman
in studying the American Southeast
The
Merry Mailman
Read Mrs. Watkins' class version of The Jolly
Postman.
Understanding
our Interdependent Roles in Our Communities
Co-operative learning; Dr. Sherman, Miami University
A
Letter to Arthur e-readers Lesson Plan
Grades 1 or 2; related reading; from E-readers, Seminole
County
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Each Peach Pear
Plum Lesson Plans
Predicting
List of books good for predicting in reading; from Vermont
Center
for the Book. Each Peach Pear Plum
Preschool
Large Group and Circle Activities
Space down to "Observation Game;" Each Peach Each
Plum
From Preschool Rainbow
Preschool
Large Group and Circle Activities
Space down to "Observation Game;" Each Peach, Each
Plum
From Preschool Rainbow
Discovering
Patterns in Universal Communication
Grade one; Each Peach Pear Plum on reading
list
BBC
Education. Words and Pictures. CVC Poem Overview
Phonemes; rhymes and jingles in various CVC patterns.
Each Peach
Pear Plum
Speech Therapy
Activities. Each Peach Pear Plum
Lesson Exchange.
I Spy [Game]
By Thad Schmenk. From TeachersNet
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Online E-texts
"It's a Puzzle"
vers libre [free verse]
A poem about friendship from vers libre. You or your students
can rate
this poem.
Joke
Taken from the HA HA BONK BOOK
From the Ahlbergs' book. Adrian Maik's page
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Bibliography
ISLMC Ahlberg
Bibliography
Books
by Janet Ahlberg From Barnes & Noble
Books
by Allan Ahlberg From Barnes & Noble
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ERIC Resources
ERIC documents are relatively inexpansive and can be
ordered online. Journal articles [EJ] can be found at your local
library. Please search AskEric directly.
Letter
from England: Two in One.
By Aidan Chambers. From The Horn Book, Dec., 1982
Metafiction
for Beginners: Allan Ahlberg's "Ten in a Bed".
By Margaret Mackey, in Children's Literature in
Education,
Sep. 1990.
Peak
with Books: An Early Childhood Resource for Balanced Literacy. 3rd
ed.
By Marjorie R. Nelsen, and Jan Nelsen-Parish. ED436729
Becoming
a Nation of Writers: Writing as Literature.
By Diane Goetz Person, ED334598
Deconstructing
Burglars: Formal Analysis as a Pedagogic Jemmy.
By Andrew Stibbs. In Children's Literature in
Education,
Dec. 1994.
A
Thinker Tool: for the Jolly Postman, or Other People's Letters;
for The PaperBag Princess; for The Velveteen Rabbit.
By Janet Ahlberg and others. ED371859
Journeying:
Children Responding to Literature.
By Kathleen E. Holland, ed. and others; ED358467
Teaching
through Literature: A Project Centered on Janet and Alan Ahlberg's Book
"The Jolly Postman".
By Daniel Williams; in Reading, Jul. 1992
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