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All About Me Unit
Students engage in an "All About Me," series of activities in the beginning of the year. All sorts of ideas are in this lesson plan to help students express themselves and get to know their classmates.
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Something's Fishy
Students study fish habits and traits. For this marine life lesson, students complete four learning centers of a fish memory game, a fish habitat study, draw and glue fish craft activity, and a fish read-a-thon. Students complete their...
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Fluency: Words, Word Speed Practice
Taking turns, learners time each other as they read a list of high-frequency words and track progress.
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Can You Compose?
Fourth graders investigate musical notes. In this music lesson, 4th graders compose a short song while clapping the rhythm and singing the syllables using the appropriate notes or rests.
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The Ogre Bully
Young scholars listen to the book, The Ogre Bully, and discuss the problems the farmer and his family had during the story. In this garden themed lesson, students examine different fruit and vegetables and plant them in soil...
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The Archer and The Sun
First graders explore Chinese folktales. In this Chinese folktale activity ,students read Chinese folktales, locate China on a map, and color the Chinese flag. Students are given sentence strips to hold and must arrange themselves...
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Consonant Blends Blended with Short Vowels
Here is a simple, yet effective lesson on consonant blends. Young readers watch as the teacher demonstrates voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds, and voiced vowel sounds. They practice rhyming consonant blends and trigraphs.
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The Letter B
Students read books, play internet games, and trace letters to learn about the letter b. In this letter b lesson plan, students also make bear crafts.
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"Contraction Action"
Students read and spell common contractions formed from a verb paired with the word not. They read and spell common contractions formed from a pronoun paired with a verb.
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Phonics Word Search #3 Words That Begin With ch
In this rhyming words worksheet, students locate 12 rhyming words that begin with -ch that are hidden in a word search puzzle. They locate words such as chalk, choose, cheer, and chart.
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Long Vowel Phoneme -IGH
Students listen to a poem and discuss the rhyming words. They complete worksheets focusing on the long vowel phoneme -igh.
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Long Vowel Phoneme A-E
Students listen to a poem and discuss it. They focus on the phoneme a-e.
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Anansi and the Tug O' War
Read a short book with your first graders! Anansi and the Tug O' War is the focus of this lesson. After reading the African story together, they complete language arts activities to practice reading comprehension. A stellar...
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Literal Meaning of Reading
Young scholars practice basic reading skills. In this reading lesson plan, students review the letter M, read the story If You Give a Mouse a Muffin. Young scholars will then write a book using their name, for example: If You Give a Taco...
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Spreading Kindness All Around
Students donate items to organization to demonstrate kindness. In this kindness lesson plan, students read many books and discuss how the characters in each one demonstrate kindness, and then they themselves donate to charities.
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Nasreddin Hodja - Turkish and Middle Eastern Folklore Philosopher
Third graders read a readers theater written by Nasreddin Hodja. In this Nasreddin Hodja lesson plan, 3rd graders learn about the philosopher and participate in one of his reader's theaters.
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Word Wall Words
Students practice recognizing sights words. In this literacy instructional activity, students recognize and read 200 sight words, use combinations of words to make sentences, use words to fill in basic sentences, successfully pass...
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Sight Word Cards
Second graders participate in small group sight word activities. In this sight word lesson plan, 2nd graders use sight word cards to practice reading, saying and spelling a stack of words. They build words that include the ch, tch, sh,...
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Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling
Go over digraphs, vowel sounds, and affixes with a series of decoding and spelling lessons. Each lesson guides learners through a different reading and phonics skill, building on the lesson before, and challenging them with each step.
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Around The Town
Students participate in alphabetizing letters, coming up with questions and concepts, and show the rules of phonics by playing a game for a unit opener. In this language arts lesson plan, students also come up with thinking maps.
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Fables With Dolch Sight Words
Second graders read classic fables, consider their meaning and then re-write them using a prompt if necessary. This lesson plan presents many classic fables that students can read, and re-write, using their powers of imagination.
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Dolch Sight Words in a Story
Learners read a story with 220 basic sight words. They discuss why the words are important to identify and utilize them in their own writing assignments.
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The Magic Pot
Students read the story The Magic Pot and complete language arts based activities based on the story. For this language arts lesson plan, students discuss, listen, observe, and complete language worksheets.
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Beach Theme
Students practice b words, search for sea shells, write on beach post cards, and more, all to learn about the beach. Students also wear sun hats around the room.