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Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Map for Me: An Original Story

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils read Blackbeard and brainstorm their knowledge of maps. In this language arts and geography lesson, students use landmarks on their playground to review north, south, east and west and discuss the compass rose. Pupils read This is...
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Through the Forest and Home Again: Maps Help Us Find Our Ways

For Teachers K - 1st
Students read Little Red Riding Hood, focusing on her path home to Grandma's house. In this language arts and geography instructional activity, students perform a reader's theater, re-creating the walk home and possible routes that could...
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Word Families: A Kindergarten Experience

For Teachers K
Students study rhyming words. In this language arts lesson, students participate in several activities in which they practice rhyming words. Students match onsets and rhymes and practice spelling words.
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Rooster's Night Out

For Teachers K
Mitch Weiss and Martha Hamilton's Rooster's Night Out, a retelling of a classic Cuba folktale, launches a cross-curricular study of Cuban cultural traditions. Class members draw the characters from the book, participate in math and...
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Language Arts, Social Studies, African Americans, The Blues, To Kill A Mockingbird

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
African American history during the Jim Crow era includes encounters with poverty, racism, disrespect, and protest. Harper Lee develops all four of these themes in her famous 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. To help students understand...
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Language Arts, African Americans, Oral Tradition and the Blues

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
When slavery took Africans from their land, they were separated from the rich musical and oral traditions native to each country and region. While working as slaves, Africans found they had two places where they could use these musical...
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Language Arts, Music, Poetry: Blues Style

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
This lesson focuses on how the blues both operates as poetry and informs the poetry of many prominent African American poets. Students consider the poetic devices and recurring themes in blues lyrics and the significance of the poetry of...
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Learning Secondary Colors

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify secondary colors. In this visual arts lesson, students predict what color will be made when two colors are mixed. Students create their own painting using secondary colors and write about their painting in their journals.
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Brave Monster Arts & Crafts Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners are read Brave Little Monster, by Ken Baker. In this being brave lesson plan, students listen to the story and independently create their own monster puppet with the provided supplies. They discuss as a class what it means to be...
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The Art of Persuasion

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars write a persuasive letter. In this persuasion lesson plan, students listen to the story Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School and discuss the vocabulary and parts of a persuasive letter. They write their own...
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Storytelling: Carnival Crime

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars participate in the storytelling process. In this language arts lesson, students listen to a story and retell the story using pictures. Young scholars draw pictures of a carnival costume.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

6 Traits: Voice

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Young scholars explore the trait of voice. In this language arts lesson, students focus on the writing trait of voice. Young scholars view a video and practice writing.
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Writing in a Picture

For Students Pre-K - K
For this Language Arts worksheet, students write inside a picture of a bath tub. The pictures includes lines to guide students in their writing.
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Barn With Silo

For Students Pre-K - K
In this Language Arts worksheet, students cut out an outline of a house with a chimney. Students may add color and their own details to the picture.
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Pig

For Students K - 1st
In this Language Arts worksheet, students write inside a picture of a pig. The picture includes printing lines to guide students in their writing.
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Outline of a Rain Drop

For Students Pre-K - K
In this Language Arts worksheet, students cut out a picture of a rain drop. Students may add color and their own details to the illustration.
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Blank Rainbow

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this Language Arts worksheet, learners color in a picture of a rainbow. Students may cut out the illustration and add their own details.
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Initial Consonants-- Picture Clues (Farm Theme)

For Students K - 1st
In this language arts worksheet, students examine 6 pictures of farm animals. From the 2 choices, students circle the beginning consonant sound.
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"I Can't" Said the Ant Activity Card

For Students Pre-K - K
In this language arts worksheet, students respond to the book "I Can't" Said the Ant by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students listen to a parent read an unfinished rhyme from the book. They cut out 6 pictures and paste...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Working with Words Teacher Directed Activity by Mark Cogan for Elem. Test Prep

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars build word families. In this interactive language arts activity, students visit a website where they play a game creating word families. Young scholars may print out their work when finished.
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Matching Capital and Small Letters

For Students Pre-K - K
In this Matching Capital and Small Letters worksheet, learners draw lines connecting upper and lower case letters A through H. A line is drawn between the lower case "a" and the upper case "A" as an example.
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Phonics Blend Learning Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Blend letters into different sounds using a series of posters on blended phonics sounds. It includes 36 pages of posters, including 18 sounds with accompanying pages with examples of words.
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Find The Hidden Message: Media Literacy in Primary Grades

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice listening to and reading various types of media and text. In groups, learners use video, newspapers, magazines, and more to compare and contrast different types of information. They identify the differences between fact...
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Dancing Levels in Space

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice mirroring human moves by performing a dance in class.  In this physical education lesson, students utilize different spaces around them to perform a dance expressing their full motion.  Students cooperate in pairs or...

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