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Labeling the Body
First graders sing about their body. In this music lesson students sing the songs "I Shake My Thumb" and "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes". After they sing the songs and add different body parts to extend the songs they label a picture...
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Tongue Twisters
Second graders read the poem, "Betty Botter" and give their opinion of it. They discover what a tongue twister is and read the poem out loud together. Then as a class they read "Peter Piper" and discuss the similarities of the two poems.
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All About Me Unit
Learners 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.
Teacher Web
Poetic Sound Devices
As part of a study of poetic devices, kids are asked to identify the assonance, consonance, and alliteration found in a series of lines of poetry, and then identify the rhyme scheme and the types of rhyme found in Poe's "Annabel Lee,"...
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"The Big Orchard Book of Funny Poems"
Students read and analyze various poems from the book "The Big Orchard Book of Funny Poems." They clap to the rhymes, identify patterns, compare and contrast poems, and write an alternative poem based on the poem "Christine Crump."
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Bill Gates
In this Bill Gates worksheet, students read about the life of the businessman, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.
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Chef for a Day
Students make chocolate chip cookies. In this cooking lesson, students follow a recipe by doing each step in sequence.
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Observations and Inferences
Pupils observe how to distinguish observations form inferences. In this examining inferences lesson students list observations relating to the activity and discuss the importance of them.
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Healthcare
In this health care worksheet, students, with a partner, discuss and complete a variety of activities associated with health care and doctors.
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Sensory Elements in the Environment
Students verbally and visually identify visual elements found around them everyday.
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American Bison
In this bison worksheet, students read several paragraphs about the American Bison. Students learn about its history and its current status and answer questions about the text.
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Meet the Polygon Family
Fourth graders investigate regular polygons. In this regular polygon lesson, 4th graders explore the attributes of different polygons. Students work in groups to complete a KWL chart regarding polygons.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Match: Sight Words
Concentration game matching sight words: we, of, go, to, do, you, very, says, some, what, they, there, look, when, about, could, away.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Audio Word Match Fry Words 251 260
This matching game will test how well you read irregularly spelled, high-frequency grade 2 words.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Audio Word Match Fry Words 261 270
Play this matching game to see how well you read irregularly spelled, high-frequency grade 2 words.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Audio Word Match Fry Words 921 930
Identify correct decoding of multisyllabic grade 4 and 5 words in this audio matching game.
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Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetics and Sight Words
Discover more about phonemic awareness when you visit this informative site. This resource features activities that teach phonemic awareness and activities that teach alphabetics.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: High Frequency Word Concentration
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students match the high frequency words in a concentration game format. I use this as a center activity.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 1st Grade
This article focuses on teaching spelling to first graders including Dolch sight words for 1st grade and strategies for teaching spelling such as syllabification, drawing symbols with words, matching words with pictures, and playing...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: High Frequency Words: Tom's Color Game
Help Tom the zebra get ready for bed in this interactive game. Drag each color word next to the box with the matching color and give Tom one item he needs for bedtime. After giving him socks, a blanket, hay, and a glass of water, watch...
Quia
Quia: A Feast of Homonym Games
Choose to play matching, concentration, flash cards, or word search games to practice your homophones in this interactive Quia site.