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Language Arts: Sound Recognition
First graders practice the short i sound by repeating tongue twisters. Later they write the letter i by using the analogy of drawing a straight line from the "fence" down to the "sidewalk" and putting a "basketball" above it. Other...
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Language Arts: Becoming Fluent Readers
First graders develop letter-sound correspondence skills by segmenting words according to their phonemes. Using letter tiles and letter boxes, they spell words called by the teacher. After reading several books with the teacher, 1st...
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Language Arts: Leaping with Fluency
Students improve fluency skills by reading word cards presented to them by the teacher. Through a demonstration by the teacher, they note the difference between fluency and non-fluency. Both as a group and then individually, students...
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Keep It Academic
Learners study various methods to learn about religion in the classroom. In this religion study instructional activity, students read and visit links to learn about various ways of teaching religion in schools. Learners learn the model...
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Foods and Languages of the World
Students complete a painting. In this flags lesson, students are introduced to the Italian flag and discuss its similarities with the American flag. Students use red, white and green paint to paint a flag.
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Foods and Languages of the World
Students compare and contrast the German flag to the American flag. In this diversity lesson, students view an example of the German flag and American flag. Students list the differences and similarities between both flags. Students...
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I'm Tellin'!: Kids Bringing Folktales Alive
Pupils participate in a reading lesson that works on social and academic skills. They increase reading comprehension with direct instruction with the group reading of a folktale. Then students research their own stories to tell.
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Spelling List E-19
In this spelling worksheets, students write each of 21 words two times. This list includes words with -ing, sight words, and academic vocabulary.
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Spelling List D-26
In this spelling worksheet, students write each of 21 words two times. This list contains words with the r-controlled vowel, sight words, and academic vocabulary.
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Spelling List C-17
In this spelling activity, students write each of 16 words two times. This list contains words with the air sound, sight words and academic vocabulary.
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Spelling List C-19
In this spelling worksheet, students write each of 16 words two times. This list contains homophones, sight words and academic vocabulary.
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Spelling List C-25
In this spelling instructional activity, students write each of 16 words two times. This list contains words with the VCCV pattern and academic vocabulary.
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Spelling List B-12
In this spelling learning exercise, students write each of 16 words two times. This list contains words with the -ew pattern, sight words, and academic vocabulary.
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Spelling List B-6
In this spelling worksheet, students write each of 16 words two times. This list contains the -ol- pattern, sight words, and academic vocabulary.
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Academic Service Learning: Creating the Philanthropy Resource
Young scholars complete a service learning project. They interview non-profit organizations of their community and develop listing information for each organization. They also develop a list of career opportunities for the community.
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Dr. Seuss Comes to the Gym
Demonstrate different motor activities to honor Dr. Seuss's birthday. A literacy-based physical education lesson prompts young readers to perform group activities such as tumbling, jumping rope, throwing frisbees, and hopping. Each...
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Subject and Object Pronouns: Challenges
Enhance problem solving skills while refining grammar proficiency with a learning game focused on subject and object pronouns. With playing cards in hand, class members create a dialogue in which one presents a problem while the other...
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Picturing America: Images and Words of Hope from Romare Bearden and Langston Hughes
A carefully crafted three-day lesson integrates poetry and visual art. By analyzing and comparing Langston Hughes' poem "Mother and Son" and Romare Bearden's collage "The Dove," readers explore the theme of hope. The lesson activates...
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Descriptive Writing: Using Art to Inspire description
Write with the senses! Try using art to inspire writers to consider all of the senses. Here, the class is divided in half. Each group looks at one of two images, imagines the senses that would be engaged, and records answers to five...
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Modals
If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Modal verbs such as could and would express possibility, as the installment of a compilation of informational handouts describes. A series of tables help explain the strength,...
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Acting Like a Third Grader (Part 1)
Third graders, after brainstorming the positive and negative types of behaviors, become aware of the right and wrong way to behave as a third grader. They perform a skit that demonstrates the skills and behaviors used by third grade...
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Lesson Plan: A Guided Tour
Albert Bierstadt's painting Wind River Country shows viewers how a reader progresses through a story. Your class studies the light and dark areas, how the eye moves across the painting, and what attracts the audience to the work, and...
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My Own Backyard
Students explore and react to the painting The Road to Santa Fe. In this interacting with art instructional activity, students locate various objects in the painting. Students copy the angle of objects by using their bodies. Students...
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Texture Hunts and More: Madonna and Child with Saints
Students investigate different painting techniques by studying classic works of art. For this art history lesson, students observe the famous Madonna and Child with Saints painting and describe the texture and images they notice....