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How Resourceful Are You?
Students examine the Nevada state quarter and discuss items on the quarter, categorizing them as natural resources, human resources, or capital resources. They paste other coins into correct categories depending on the resources depicted...
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Music History - The Romantic Period
Students chose one topic about the music of the Romantic Period to write an essay about. They research this era, take notes on the important facts, and write an essay about the topic.
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Animal Research and Report
Students research an animal that lives near them in their community. They observe and describe animals that live near them. They also include illustrations of the animal they are observing.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 5--Telephone Communication
Students, after reviewing/defining an extensive list of vocabulary terms on the board, examine/identify a variety of resources found in telephone directories (maps, government agencies, coupons, customer guide section, emergency numbers,...
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Passages of Man and Word
Third graders explore transportation and written communication prior to the Renaissance.
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What's Down There
Third graders gather and examine samples from the school outdoor environment. They compare/contrast their samples with those of other students. Students record the results of their observations.
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B is for Bowling Green
Third graders identify important places in Bowling Green and list facts about those places. They write complete, varied sentences using capitals and punctuation correctly and also use the Writing Process. As a final project, a...
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Say Aaaaa for Apple
Students say words by blending sounds and phonemes. They decode words in order to read and identify and understand the letter a. This phoneme /a/ is one of the short vowels that are needed to read and write. They will show example of...
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Quiet Time
First graders practice making the /sh/ sound walking around the room, pretending to be in the library. They then try to say a tongue twister containing the phoneme and practice writing the letters s and h and identify the /sh/ sound in...
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Chuga Chuga Choo Choo
First graders identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /c/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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Learning Rhymes
Students practice reading and writing in this cross-curricular lesson for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed on daily practice, individual improvements, and positive reinforcements for jobs well done during the activity.
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A Tisket-A-Tasket, Let?s Make a Flower Basket!!!
First graders practice blending words with the phonemes /i/ and /e/. Working with a specific groups of letters, 1st graders create words using the vowels i and e. they decode those words and read them repeatedly to increase fluency.
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When A Says Its Name
Students are introduced to the concept of vowel digraphs. They identify the digraph /ai/ in spoken language. After a brief discussion, students apply the rule for reading and spelling words containing the /ai/ digraph by playing word bingo.
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Laus Dnet: Kinder. Word Lesson Alphabet Potluck Feast [Pdf]
Students will create a class book (PDF) modeled after the book Potluck, by Anne Shelby, to identify the beginning sounds of words and the letter of the alphabet representing that sound (phonemic awareness). Contains links to step sheets...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Who Lives in the Sea? A Class Book
A lesson plan where learners work together to create an alphabet book filled with ocean plants and animals.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Class Book Ideas: Story Frames
This site discusses how story frames are a great way to support emergent writers in the classroom. Lots of story prompts and writing frames to use in a K-2 classroom.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Measurement Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart begins focusing on measurement and continues on to following directions, rhyming, alphabet cheer and Big Books.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Listening for Sounds
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has the students working on their listening skills with various activities as well as the alphabet cheer, a Big Book, and classifying people and animals.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Avian Alphabet
ABCya! presents its seventh online storybook for the classroom by Michelle Tocci. The Amazing Avian Alphabet features twenty-six beautiful illustrations of birds accompanied by intriguing info about each one! A great book to share with...
EL Education
El Education: Collecting Nature's Alphabet
This book features two separate yet related projects created by kindergarten students at The College School in St. Louis, Missouri. After reading the book Discovering Nature's Alphabet, kindergarten students were inspired and asked to go...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Learning Colors
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart starts off with identifying colors and then moves into patterns, alphabet song and cheer, handwriting practice, sensory words and books.
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Class Flow: Z for Zachariah
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the book Z for Zachariah. There are assessments and journal opportunities.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Abc Community Walk
In this lesson, students will learn vocabulary related to a community. The class will create a class Community ABC Book as a culminating activity to show what they have learned about what it means to be part of a community.