Read Works
Read Works: Be Careful With Medicines
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading comprehension passage focuses on children learning to be safe with medicine and vocabulary words. It is followed by questions about the passage that include picture cues.
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Read Works: In the Night
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a cat who likes to go hunting at night. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: How Trees Help
[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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Read Works: A Day in Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Keesha's day in kindergarten. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 24: Interactive Writing
In this instructional activity, young scholars will listen to nonfiction books about items that sink and float. Students will participate in filling in words to fill in a teacher-created chart that is connected to the information. Young...
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Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Actions
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan asking students to use action cues while playing a game of Charades. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Independent practice worksheets are...
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Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Short Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan teaching students to make conclusions based on a sentences and short texts. Students use textual cues to explain how the conclusions were reached. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...
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Read Works: Kindergarten: Three Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions
[Free Registration/Login Required] Three lessons designed to introduce young learners and beginning readers to the concept of drawing conclusions based on actions performed in a charades game, on verbal cues given in a guessing game, and...
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Education Galaxy: Topic, Illustrations and Predictions
Practice making predictions about an informational text by looking at the title and pictures. Play in study or game mode.
Success Link
Success Link: Descriptive Writing Mittens
Use this lesson plan to teach descriptive writing. A checklist is provided so students can self-monitor their writing.
Education.com
Education.com: sl.k.5 Lesson Plans
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from four quality lesson plans to help students practice the Common Core Standard of adding drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Education.com
Education.com: Draw the Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use their imagination to complete the story. How will it begin? How will it end? Great lesson for practicing sequencing.
Starfall
Starfall: Let's Play
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Very Quiet Cricket
During this lesson, students will write a sequel to The Very Quiet Cricket. The students will discuss and demonstrate the use of personification in the story. The class will also complete a WebQuest about The Very Quiet Cricket.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Spotting Sounds All Around
This is both a hands-on and technology based lesson where young scholars can apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships while incorporating the use of classroom technology. This Language Arts activity will allow for the students...
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Oddball (Pre Reading Skills Game)
Players choose from one of three categories--animals, shapes, or machines--to see if they can identify which animal, shape, or machine is not like the others.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools:more Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature and Reading
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for teaching reading and literature. Elaborate graphic organizers are provided for the following: story maps, character study charts, making text connection maps, conflict...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer provides a framework for students to analyze the sequence of events in a story or historical event.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Kindergarten Sequencing Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sequencing lesson for Kindergarten in Learning Focused format.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: School
A collection of images of school to use as writing prompts. Students can make text-to-self connections, write creative stories, or just write about how the students in the images might feel.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: List
These writing prompt images are from children's book illustrator Todd Parr. Let his whimsical art inspire your young writers, as they connect to his universal themes of childhood.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: How to Draw Supercow [Pdf]
This book contains 14 steps for drawingSupercow, followed by a page topractice tracing Supercow, and overviewpage of all the steps, and a page foryou to draw your final product (after practising).
EL Education
El Education: Animal Pictures and Drafts
These first and second drafts of animal illustrations were created by kindergarten students at the Robious Elementary School in Midlothian, Virginia, and are an example of the power of critique and revision even for young students.
EL Education
El Education: Firefly Drafts
These drafts present evidence of critique and revision for two four-year-olds from a preschool in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who were involved in a Learning Expedition on insects. Three versions of two student's scientific illustrations of...