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Uen: 1st Grade Act: 22: Retelling the Tiny Seed
This lesson engages students in story retelling to Eric Carle's book, The Tiny Seed. Students will participate in interactive storytelling as they write sentences and illustrate pictures about seed travel.
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Uen: Effects of Tobacco
This instructional activity engages students in learning about the negative impact of tobacco. Students will demonstrate their learning by writing what they have learned on hearts that will be strung together and displayed. Students will...
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Uen: Abc Fun
In this differentiated instructional activity, teachers will engage students in working with letters and their sounds. Word-making (low level), word making with several letters (middle level), and word generating with random single...
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Uen: 1st Grade Act. 14: Who's in Your Family
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Carol A. Johnson's book, Who's in Your Family. Students will create a classroom graph with the titles of their family members afterward.
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Uen: A Book About Me
This lesson engages students in using a template to help them with personal writing. Students will gain exposure to several autobiographies and then will write their own autobiographical pieces.
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Uen: K Act. 05: Shared Reading: Greedy Cat's Breakfast
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Joy Cowley's book, Greedy Cat's Breakfast. Students will participate in making food glyphs of their favorite breakfast foods. Students will use the glyphs to...
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Uen: Tallies Tell It All
This math lesson engages students into mathematical activities. Students will learn about tallying and data collection.
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Uen: Why Walk?
This lesson plan engages students in reading activities related to James Marshall's book, Yummers. Students will analyze the diet of the main character and determine what made the character sick.
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Uen: What Makes the Writer Write?
This lesson plan engages students in reading and research related to the Victorian Era. Students will analyze this time period's influence on the writings of Charles Dickens. Then students will analyze how today's authors incorporate...
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Uen: Song Writing
This lesson plan engages students in writing lyrics to songs. Students will use free musical software to aid students as they put their lyrics to a tune and tempo.
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Uen: Predict and Clarify With the Old Woman & Her Pig
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Margaret Read McDonald's book, The Old Woman & Her Pig. Students will participate in making predictions, clarifiying understanding, and retelling the story.
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Uen: Second Grade Writing Lesson #2/Narrative Prompt
This lesson engages students in listening to one or more narratives, Then students will engage in the writing process to develop their own personal narrative. Exemplar narratives are provided.
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Uen: Text Structures Informational Writing/mesopotamia Unit
This module provides an 18-day unit about Mesopotamia. Teachers of the unit will explicitly teach students about text structures, summary writing, reading informational texts, and writing a book about Mesopotamia.
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Uen: Be a Detective Is It a Letter or a Word?
In this lesson, students will distinguish between words and letters. Students will look at each letter or word with an imitation magnifying glass to help them "see" letters and words more closely.
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Uen: Choose Your Attitude
This lesson engages students in determining the importance of attitudes on many facets of life. Students will view movie clips, view PowerPoint presentations, discuss how attitudes can change and influence people's lives, and look at...
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Uen: Segmenting and Blending Words
In this activity, students will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.
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Uen: 1st Grade Act. 10: Rock Art
This module engages students in designing their own rock art. Teachers will engage students in a shared texts, The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola and Mathematics from Many Cultures by Calvin Irons, James Burnett and...
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Uen: Retelling the African Folktale Abiyoyo
This lesson students will listen to an African folktale, Abiyoyo. Students will engage in role-playing to retell Abiyoyo through the use of reader's theater.
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Uen: Character Education Read Alouds
This lesson plan engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Patty Lovell's book, Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. Students will participate in listening to other stories with the same message and then will determine the...
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Uen: Writing a Letter Using the Book Mole's Hill
In this lesson, students will engage in writing activities as extensions to Lois Ehlert's book, Mole's Hill. Students will generate soluntions to conflicts in the story, generate ideas for writing letters, write an interactive letter to...
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Uen: Picnic Field Day
This lesson plan provides a cross-curricular instructional activity for second grade students. Teachers will read Elino R J. Pinczes' One Hundred Hungry Ants and then engage the students in hands-on division activities that connect to...
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Uen: K Act.13: Forming Relationships Using Music & Rhythm
This instructional activity engages students in learning about short vowel sounds. Connections to multicultural songs, books, music, stories, and activities immerse students into new content. Students will connect letter and sound cards...
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Uen: Career Investigation
For this lesson, students will research careers related to their highest interests.
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Uen: Conflict Resolution
This lesson engages students in learning about conflict resolution. Students will take notes on steps and procedures to help solve differences and will practice using these skills in a classroom activity.