Contains resources for teaching "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson that provides lesson plans, vocabulary and comprehension activities, quizzes, and graphic organizers.

The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.

Intended to provide supplemental material for teaching literature units. Includes sample lesson plans, pre-reading activities, author information, book summary, vocabulary lists and activities, book report ideas, unit tests, and more.

The Herdmans plus Halloween have always spelled disaster. Every year these six kids -- the worst in the history of Woodrow Wilson School, and possibly even the world -- wreak havoc on the whole town. They steal candy, spray-paint kids, and take anything that's not nailed down. Now the mayor has had it. He's decided to cancel Halloween. There won't be any Herdmans to contend with this year, but there won't be any candy, either. And what's Halloween without candy? And without trick-or-treating? The Herdmans manage to turn the worst Halloween ever into the best Halloween ever in this uproarious sequel to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.

Includes sample lesson plans, pre- and post-reading activities, a biographical sketch of the author, book summary, vocabulary list and suggested vocabulary activities, book report ideas, research ideas, a culminating activity, options for unit tests, bibliography, and answer key.

Teaching literature unit based on the popular children's story, The polar express.