Educational Resources

Whether you’re visiting as a family or on a field trip, these materials will help engage our youngest visitors with fun activities. Developed to meet standards for 3rd-4th grade.

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A young girl plays a word choice game in the children's literature gallery at the American Writers Museum in Chicago

Children's Literature Gallery Exploration Worksheet

This fun worksheet of short questions takes you on a scavenger hunt around the gallery!

A worksheet called "My Personal Bookshelf" to be filled out by elementary school students at the American Writers Museum

My Personal Bookshelf Student Activity

Create your own dream bookshelf! With the goal of sharing and exploring a wide variety of authors and styles the American Writers Museum hopes to inspire a love of books in children from an early age.

Three adults and four children of various ages read and talk together on stools and the floor of the children's literature gallery at the American Writers Museum in Chicago

My Personal Bookshelf Teacher Overview

Use this outline in your classroom to help guide a field trip for 3rd-4th graders.