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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Generating Rhymes for Analogy Based Phonics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson introduces students to many different approaches toward learning about rhyme and other similarities in words, such as shared/guided reading and small group instruction. A good tool for increasing students' phonological...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Doing Our Jobs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will learn that there are rules to be followed or jobs to be done in the classroom. Students will also learn how to listen and speak to others.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: About Your Bones

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the skeletonThis passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: How Plants Work

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the different parts of a plant: the leaves, stem, roots, and flowers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Stop the Rock!

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about animals that work together to help each other. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: How Trees Help

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about trees and the way they help people. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Graphic
TES Global

Tes: Vocabulary Sorting Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Beginning readers or ELL/ESL/EL students. This reproducible tool can used to sort new vocabulary words into different categories.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Common Core: Curriculum Maps: Tell a Story, 1 2 3 [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this second six-week unit of Kindergarten, students focus on sequence as they enjoy "Counting Books," both fiction and informational, and stories based on "three."
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Lesson Plan
Success Link

Success Link: Inside Outside Show and Tell

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A different take on Show and Tell that emphasizes speaking and listening skills and will engage all the students in this kindergarten tradition.
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

The Reading Genie: Making Friends With Phonemes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article provides suggestions for teaching children to understand and begin to manipulate phonemes.
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Article
Other

Encourage Play: Two Fun Ways to Practice Conversation Skills

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Listening and responding on topic during a conversation is a skill our kids need to practice and learn. Here are two fun ways to practice this skill. You can do these activities with groups of kids, or pairs of kids. If you are working...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Listen!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This small group lesson addresses a very specific skill that some students need to improve their reading skills - self-monitoring. Using play phones, the students will listen to themselves very carefully to see whether what they are...
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Unit Plan
Starfall

Starfall: Dune Buggy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
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Website
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Engage in Group Reading Activities With Purpose and Understanding

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Kindergarten standard of engaging in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Dog and Cat

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive is a little ebook play with dialogue between Dog and Cat. Click on Words to complete an activity.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Cookies

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive is a little ebook play with dialogue among Mother, Girl, and Boy. Click on Words to complete an activity.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Come Play With Me

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses children playing. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Your children will gain practice recalling details from what they read in the text.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Rumor Has It!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson plan showing how rumors can get started. Mr. Peabody's Apples by Madonna is read and discussed. Students participate in game of relaying messages by whispering into the ear of the student next to them and seeing what the resulting...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Getting to Know Characters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this language development lesson using the books by Kevin Henkes English Language Learners learn vocabulary and language structures to express feelings, make text-to-self connections, and practice the reading strategy of analyzing...
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Interactive
PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Trash Stash

For Students K - 1st Standards
Cleverly animated sorting game introduces young learners to the mathematical concepts of comparing, sorting, and grouping. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for English language...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: /C/ Like Columbus

For Teachers K Standards
A historical figure helps students recognize a specific initial sound, the hard /c/.
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Oral Language

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A collection of videos, articles for parents and teachers, webcasts for teachesr, and research briefs on helping children develop their oral language skills.
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Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This collection foster students' interest in reading and writing, and encourage positive social skills with this collection of classroom resources from ARTHUR. Aimed at children between the ages of four and eight, these resources feature...