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Tell Me; I’ll Listen
Encourage respect, responsibility, and caring within your classroom with a collection of lessons that spark dialogue and self reflection. To address character traits, lessons touch on topics such as staying safe in the cafeteria,...
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Knocking Down Fences
After reading The Other Side and guiding children through a picture walk, third graders investigate evidence of the civil rights movement. In the mini unit, 3rd graders analyze photographs of the past and make connections between...
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Picture Word Book
Students create a book. In this vocabulary and word identification lesson, students make a book by gluing pictures on construction paper, then the teacher writes words in the book to label each picture.
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Celebrate Writing!
Help your students celebrate their writing through publishing projects.
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How Animals Bond
In this animals lesson plan, young scholars students write a description about a pet or animal that they know. They include details that would help someone who has never met their animal feel like they know it already. Artwork about...
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How-To Books
Students apply their knowledge and create a how-to book of their own. In this early childhood language arts worksheet, students learn about non-fiction books and write their own procedural non-fiction booklets.
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Reading Clinic: Use Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply About Books
Students learn to use prediction to think more deeply about literature. In this reading comprehension lesson, students chart predictions in order to more fully understand text.
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Be Nice to Spiders Lesson Plan
Students share their own pages with the rest of the class while they learn about spiders. For this Be Nice to Spiders lesson plan, students learn how spiders are living creatures just like people.
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Before You Were Mine
Learners discuss animal adoption and pet care. In this pet instructional activity, students listen to the story Before You Were Mine by Maribeth Boelts. They discuss animals body language, feelings, and how to best car for them.
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Opening Doors to Social Studies with Children's Literature: The Desert Alphabet Book
Pupils explore the geography of the United States. In this social studies lesson, students identify the major deserts on a map of the United States.
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Pointed Comments
Fifth graders analyze pieces of writing to identify the author's purpose of writing. In this writing lesson, 5th graders consider a variety of pieces of writing such as, poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction. Each student completes an...
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I Imagine....
In this writing prompt worksheet, students choose fantasy or real animals to describe in a poem or story. Students draw pictures of their animals as well.
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End of the School Year: It's Been a Great Year
Students write about their school year and reflect on the goals they have accomplished. In this writing lesson plan, students use their writing skills, draw pictures, take pictures, and chart paper to complete this project.
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Georgia Performance Standards Framework for ELA Unit 6-8th grade
Eighth graders explore figurative language through the study of picture books. In this figurative language lesson, 8th graders listen to books and chart the figurative language that they hear. Students discuss examples in groups.
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What Does Christmas Mean to Me?
Students write an essay entitled "What Does Christmas Mean to Me?" In this writing lesson plan, students express their feelings about Christmas in an essay. Students discuss ways they have given to others during the Christmas season,...
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Pictures of Our School
Students explore their school. In this technology lesson, students use digital cameras to photograph common areas of their school building. Students write stories to accompany the photographs and create a book.
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Names and Places
Students explore where jobs are done. In this careers and geography lesson, students locate places in Canada on a map and list jobs that are done in their area of Canada. Lesson includes extension and differentiation ideas.
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Small Group Shared Writing
Learners discuss elements of effective writing in small groups. They work together to critique individual and group writing focusing on including supporting details.
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Let Me Tell You About My Favorite Animal
Students create books about their favorite animals using graphic organizers.
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Blue Moon
Students explore information about the moon. In this trans-disciplinary instructional activity, students first listen to a picture book about the moon, then create an accompanying art project to illustrate a blue moon. Finally, the...
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Art, Literature, & Environment
High schoolers communicate their thoughts on the environment by creating picture books for middle school students. High schoolers include their thoughts on population, deforestation, water, energy, endangered species, and waste in their...
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Bats About Stellaluna
Students, after listening to Janelle Cannon's picture book Stellaluna, explore a variety of living things through three distinct activities. They make a list of what they know and want to know about birds and bats. Orally and in writing...
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Silouettes of New York City
Second graders create a New York City silhouette. In this visual arts activity, 2nd graders view the picture book, Uptown, and identify the silhouettes. Students use construction paper, paint, and a flashlight to create artistic...
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Collaborative Drawings
Students create a collaborative drawing. In this cooperation skills lesson, students are divided into small groups and are given art supplies. Students decide on a topic for their illustration and create the drawing on large paper....