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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Giving Things a Name

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars label images seen on an interactive website. In this early writing lesson, students do their best to write the name of the object seen on the screen.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Message Time

For Teachers Pre-K
Students complete message time activities to improve their emerging literacy skills. In this emerging literacy lesson, students discuss writing symbols and the writing process with their teacher, as well as reading prompts. Students...
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Lesson Plan
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Curated OER

International Women's Day

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners complete activities to learn about International Women's Day. In this women's importance lesson plan, students discuss the roles women play in learners' lives. Students create a collage of special women in their lives and give a...
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Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reading Instruction: Promoting Vocabulary Development

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site provides a free download of the Promoting Vocabulary Development publication. The booklet is divided into three parts: Obstacles that make vocabulary development difficult, Components of effective vocabulary instruction and how...
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Whiteboard
Other

Introduce Vocabulary: My School's a Zoo

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A unique and flexible way to introduce vocabulary. The instructor introduces three new words to the class, then as the book My School's a Zoo by Stu Smith, is read, the students raise their hands when they hear the new words. The...
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Vocabulary Stretchers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Here is a list of terrific ideas for teachers to use in the classroom to accompany vocabulary building lessons. These activities are well summarized and easy to understand.
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TESL Journal

Internet Tesl Journal: English Vietnamese Vocabulary Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive quizzes to develop vocabulary in English and Vietnamese. Basic vocabulary that's great for second language learners.
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Activity
Other

Lil' Fingers: Draw Me Shapes: A Vocabulary of Shapes and Colors

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about colors and shapes. Good practice for children learning basic English vocabulary, with excellent graphics to aid comprehension.
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Professional Doc
University of Oregon

Big Ideas in Beginning Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The goal for teachers from the academic content standards is every child to be reading by 3rd grade. This site will help teachers to teach the "big ideas" in reading: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text,...
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Activity
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Portuguese Theme Page

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Nice collection of printable word book and vocabulary activity worksheets (colors, planets, items in the house, etc.). The word book is bilingual English / Portuguese. Other worksheets are designed to help students learn Portuguese but...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context Kindergarten Unit: Using Sound and Picture Cues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach young scholars to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Handout
Other

My Spanish English Picture Dictionary

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A bilingual picture dictionary with a sample of useful words. Good for students learning Spanish or for Spanish-speaking English language learners who want to practice English vocabulary.
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Unit Plan
Language Guide

Language Guide: Portuguese Vocabulary

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site helps non-English speakers develop vocabulary and literacy in their own language. This area of the site is for Portuguese speakers. You will find word lists along with pictures and pronunciation help. The English area has many...
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Professional Doc
US Department of Education

U.s. Dept. Of Education: Childhood: Teaching Approaches: Vocabulary Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do you teach vocabulary instruction in your classroom? This site offers some suggestions to accomplish this mighty task.
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TESL Journal

Internet Tesl Journal: Japanese English Vocab Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These online vocabulary exercises are created for Japanese speakers to study English. Extensive amount of exercises on various topics. They require JavaScript. Some do not require Japanese fonts.
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Website
PBS

Colorin Colorado: Reading Rockets Resources for Ell

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Information that will help your child become a good reader and successful student. There are ideas on what to do at home, reading tips, activities, books, stories, resources and more. This bilingual site is designed for Spanish-speaking...
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Graphic
Other

Making Faces: Learn Vocabulary Words About Your Face

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about eyes, noses, and mouths.
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Article
Other

Papa Jan: Five Essential Components of Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Can you name the five essential components of reading? Check out this informative site from Papa Jan.com to learn more about phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension.
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Interactive
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)

English for Little Children

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an interactive site intended to teach English as a foreign language to young children. It is a helpful multimedia resource for EFL teachers. There are ten themes, each with two levels of difficulty, that allow children to...
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Website
Other

Canal Kids: Uniao Cultural (English for Portuguese L1s)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive vocabulary lessons for Portugese-speaking English language learners who are building a basic English vocabulary related to objects found at school, occupations, food, toys, clothes, animals, and songs. By clicking on various...
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Website
Other

Canal Kids: Uniao Cultural (English for Portuguese L1s)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive vocabulary lessons for Portugese-speaking English language learners who are building a basic English vocabulary related to objects found at school, occupations, food, toys, clothes, animals, and songs. By clicking on various...
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Website
Other

Learning Chocolate: Ell Listening

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Click on a wide variety of colorful images to hear spoken words and phrases to help expand vocabulary. There is quite a variety of images available for all age groups.
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Website
Other

Jefferson County Schools: Language Arts Presentations

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a very large collection of PowerPoint presentations for teachers to use for teaching Language Arts. They cover early reading, novel studies, vocabulary development, spelling, writing technique, to mention just a few topics.
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Article
International Reading Association

Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...

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