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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Silly Bulls: K 2 Animals

For Students 1st Standards
Practice syllables with this online game. After the word is read, choose the correct box based on the number of syllables you hear. When you choose correctly, you will see the word broken down into syllables and hear it used in a sentence.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story "Does A Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?". Included in this lesson are videos of mother and baby animals, pictures of the lesson in action, and a video of...
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Lesson Plan
Other

National Center on Intensive Intervention: Identify and Sort Common Objects

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This individual or small group activity helps teach the common core standard of sorting common objects into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. Materials and detailed instructions are included.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Y and More Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of long /e/ with the letter "y". The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: y and more" lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Digraphs and X Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of digraphs with the letter "x". The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: digraphs and x" lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Two Syllables Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of two-syllable words. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: two syllables" lesson.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Bat Versus Bird

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students compare and contrast two animals to recall learned information so they can share two facts using the informational text "The Best Nest". Included is a video explanation, a printable graphic organizer, samples of student work,...
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Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Giraffes and Zebras Oh My!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] For this lesson plan, students will be able to ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Additionally, students will also be able to identify, compare, and contrast characteristics between...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Domestic vs. Wild

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Sorting items help learners develop language skills as they describe attributes and qualities to determine which category is the best fit for an item. The teacher will introduce the definitions of wild and domestic by reading the book...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Oo Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate "oo" in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: oo" lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ow, Ou Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate "ow" or "ou" in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: ow, ou" lesson.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Animals Care for Their Young

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this interactive lesson, students learn that animals take care of their young in many of the same ways the adults in their lives take care of them. Students watch videos from NATURE and engage in a variety of activities to check...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Animal Alphabet: Graphic Organizers (English)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Animals sometimes share similar characteristics. They also are unique. Using this set of tools, you can explore the animals from the PBS Kids Animal Alphabet series and others.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Waddle Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional activity connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. Students listen carefully for the animal name and the verb describing how that...
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Magic Rocks [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students work in groups with each acting as a predator, prey, or family member in a particular habitat. They present their habitat performance to the class and students identify the habitat and animal relationships. Then,...
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eBook
Scholastic

Scholastic: Listen and Read: Animals Move

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Jump like a frog, flap your arms like a bird, and move like a fish - while learning words like swim, jump, and caterpillar - in this energizing read-aloud.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing Rainbows

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students begin this lesson by reading several books about colors such as Cat's Colors by Jane Cabrera, My Many Colored Days by Dr. Suess, Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O'Neil, and A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni. After discussing...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: If You Give a Student an Animal

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
For this lesson plan, the book If You Give a Moose a Muffin, written by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the lesson is to teach the students to take ownership of scientific and descriptive...
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Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: What's the Word? Animals

For Students K - 1st Standards
Given pictures of animals, students must select the word that fits the picture. A link to other games is provided.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Form Recognition Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...
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Interactive
TVOntario

Tvo Kids: Games: Animal Who? [Learn the Alphabet]

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A simple activity that connects letters of the alphabet to simple words, specifically names of animals. Typing any letter on the keyboard reveals an illustration of a common animal, its name, and the sound that animal makes.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Word List, Volume 2, Page 1

For Students K - 1st Standards
This printable sight word list is a worksheet from Rock 'N Learn. This list can be used as a pre-assessment or as a post-assessment.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Word List, Volume 2, Page 2

For Students K - 1st Standards
This printable sight word list is a worksheet from Rock 'N Learn. This list can be used as a pre-assessment or as a post-assessment.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Word Wizards: Students Making Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Using four popular children's books, "Corduroy", "Franklin in the Dark", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", and "Chrysanthemum", the Word Wizard interactive game builds vocabulary with related words. Each 30-minute lesson looks for patterns...