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My Writing Portfolio
Emerging writers create a portfolio showcasing various writing formats. They discuss Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. They observe the key features of picture books and then create their own book to add to...
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Energy Plus!
This lesson plan seems pretty advanced for K-2nd graders, but there are some pieces that can be used with young learners. Look through this comprehensive, fact-filled lesson plan and pull out information and activities that you can adapt...
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Hatching Chickens
Students observe how chickens hatch. In this life cycles lesson, students read the book Hatching Eggs: A Step by Step Guide and use an incubator to hatch the eggs. Students observe the chicks hatching and take care of the chicks by...
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Making Cents of the Senses
Students explore sight and hearing. In this senses lesson, students read Brown Bear Brown Bear, discuss how eyes are used for sight, and chart the eye color of the students in the class. Students discuss how hearing is important, take a...
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The Purple Cow
Students read and discuss the poem, The Purple Cow. In this poetry activity, students discuss the rhyming words in the poem and why this piece of literature is silly or unusual.
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Goldilocks Live!!!
Study story elements with your young learners. Read Goldilocks and the Three Bears and discuss the order of events by making a story panel out of butcher paper. Sentences are given as suggestions for the panel, though you may compose...
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Resources and the Environment: The Math Link
Take advantage of this interdisciplinary resource and bring together topics in science, language arts, and math. Use characters and events from the story Tillena Lou's Big Adventure as a context for practicing addition and subtraction,...
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Pancakes, Pancakes (Elementary, Science)
Read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomi De Paola then participate in different activities which practice skills such as English language development, using non-standard measurement, fine motor skills, dramatic play, and using our five senses.
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Nouns
Young readers practice classifying nouns for people, places and things. They are read a story by their teacher and identify any nouns they remember. They create a chart on the board and place them in their proper category.
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Parts-of-Speech Tall Tales
Here is a lesson that can work for virtually any grade level! Pupils study parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, proper nouns, and adverbs. They create fill in the blank tall tails on a web page for their classmates to complete.
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Good Health from the Ground Up
Young scholars examine healthy food choices and the benefits of growing their own food for consumption. They read the story "Favorite Things" and illustrate 5 favorite things. Students discuss types of foods that are healthy choices and...
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Everybody Cooks Rice
Learners read the book, "Everybody Cooks Rice," and they participate in activities pertaining to the book. They identify countries mentioned in the text and locate them on a world map. They use an atlas to identify the climatic...
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Every Five Minutes Word Jumble
In this word scramble worksheet, students read the numbers in five minute intervals in the word bank, unscramble those words on the worksheet, and write them correctly. Students write 12 answers.
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If You Take a Mouse to School Lesson Plan
The book If You Take a Mouse to School is sweet, enjoyable, and so fun to read. Little learners hear the tale of Mr. Mouse and all the trouble he causes. They discuss the book as a large group and then split up into smaller groups to use...
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Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words: #15 Scrambled Sentences
Learners practice sight words. In this dolch word lesson, students use dolch word cards to form grammatically correct sentences.
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Make A Table
In this making a table practice instructional activity, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Dolch Words: #5 Compound Words
Students explore the concept of compound words. In this compound word lesson, students use dolch word cards to create compound words.
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Express Yourself!
First graders work as a group to generate and play a game that displays an understanding of developmental level reading vocabulary based on a grade level checklist. This lesson really engages the creative side of your students!
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Beisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends
Students explore Latin America by researching the favorite past time, baseball. In this Latin culture lesson, students identify the leaders in the Latin American baseball movement such as Felipe Alou, Jose Mendze, and the great Roberto...
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Celebrate Our Favorite Authors
Young scholars read and compare and contrast a variety of books by their favorite authors. They sort books from various authors and identify themes and patterns in writing and drawings. They also create their own book in the style of...
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Tell Me Again
Students demonstrate how to retell a story in sequential order. For this reading comprehension lesson, students listen to a suggested read aloud, such as Little Boy Blue. Additionally, students practice retelling the story by using...
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Long Vowel Phoneme -ee- 1 of 4
Pupils apply word-level skills through shared and guided reading. They use poems of parts of poems as models for own writing. They read texts aloud with pace and expression.
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Long Vowel Phoneme - ea- 1 of 4
Students use reading searchlights to work out new words and make sense of what they read. They compose own poetic sentences.
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Read and Write Numbers to 100
In this early childhood math practice worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to solve 6 story problems that require them to add or subtract.