Peter Vanderwall

Professor of Education, Dr. Susan Inman was taken by how Mac's Big Wish could help elementary students focus on the moral of the story and other important concepts of literacy. As a school improvement specialist at Bushnell University, she found that the expressive animals in Mac's Big Wish helped young students understand difficult concepts like optimism and offering help. As a coach of classroom teachers learning advanced techniques, she asked teachers to consider developing lessons based on Mac's Big Wish. Elementary teachers in Dr. Inman's classes developed the lessons linked below. These freely contributed lessons give all teachers -- and other adults in childrens' lives -- ideas and structure. Download the lessons free-of-charge. The PDFs, which are colorful and illustrated by Janis Lillian, will maintain original formatting for projection or printing. The RTFs are great for adapting lessons for your own classroom, by letting you make revisions on most word processors.