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Better Lesson: Frog and Toad Are Friends the Lost Button
In this lesson, students will record events and evidence from the story "Frog and Toad Are Friends" so they can use that evidence to answer comprehension questions.
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Better Lesson: The Gingerbread Boy Versus the Gingerbread Girl
Students will compare and contrast parts of two stories, "The Gingerbread Boy" and "The Gingerbread Girl" with the aid of graphic organizers.
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Better Lesson: Don't Need Friends 3rd Read
In this instructional activity, students will compare and contrast characters within the story "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi.
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Better Lesson: Don't Need Friends 2nd Read
In this lesson, students will engage in a second guided reading of "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi. Students will compare and contrast elements within the story and elements between two stories.
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Better Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting Two Stories Using a Double Bubble Map
In this lesson, 1st graders will look at two texts with the "The Three Little Pigs" story. Students will compare the approach that each of the authors takes.
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Better Lesson: The Butter Bees
Students will compare the characteristics of the butterbee. Then they will engage in informative writing to share the information.
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Better Lesson: Somebody Wanted the Gingerbread Bear, So...
Using a graphic organizer can help students retell the story "The Gingerbread Bear" by Robert Dennis.
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Better Lesson: Frog and Toad Are Friends the Story
During this lesson plan, 1st graders will sequence events in "Frog and Toad Are Friends" by Arnold Lobel, describe the problem and solution, and describe the characters.
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Better Lesson: Double Bubble Fun!
In this lesson, students compare two texts written by the same author, Leo Lionni. Then they will write an opinion piece on which story is their favorite and why.
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Better Lesson: Thank You, Thanksgiving
Students will discuss and write about what we are thankful for this Thanksgiving.
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Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening, and Writing Comparing Sentences
In this lesson, 1st graders will look at the structure of both stories to determine how our two stories are the same.
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Better Lesson: Getting to Know Adelita
In this lesson plan, 1st graders will describe the characters, setting, and key details in "Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella" by Tomie de Paolaby. With guidance and support, students will record the details on a circle map.
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Better Lesson: Peas for Two
Students will comparing and contrast parts of "Eat Your Peas, Louise" by Mike Venezia to "Little Pea" by Amy Krause Rosenthal.
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Better Lesson: Should Animals Wear Clothes? 3 of 5
In this lesson, children share their opinion with the rest of the class about the topic of animals wearing clothes.
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Better Lesson: What's the Problem?
So...did they fix it? An important element of a story plot is a problem and it's solution. Identifying these is a way in which students can demonstrate comprehension.
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Better Lesson: Introduction to Making Predictions and Inferences
First graders will engage in a shared reading of "Mr. C's Dinner" so that we can build a foundation for understanding what it takes to make good predictions and inferences.
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Better Lesson: Using Word and Picture Clues to Make an Inference
First graders will use text evidence to make inferences about word and word phrase meanings in a text. Word and picture clues will be used to help students form inferences.
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Better Lesson: The Fishing Trip
What good fishing trip isn't without a good story or two? Today the students will solve comparison story problems involving different lengths of fish.
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Better Lesson: Tiles and Cubes and Clips, Oh My!
Were off to get the measure, the wonderful measure of side! The students will identify the longest side of an object and measure its length with a variety of non standard units.
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Better Lesson: Assessing Counting
1, 2, 3,... Students will demonstrate their counting ability as they count sets of objects between 40-60.
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Better Lesson: Well That's Different!
Finding different combinations to cover a given pattern block is the idea of the day. Students will create pattern block shapes using other pattern blocks.
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Better Lesson: Student, Student, What Do You See?
Most bears are getting ready to hibernate this time of year. NOT IN MY ROOM! These little brown bears will be on the hunt for shapes they see.
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Better Lesson: Sorting Shapes
Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking
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Better Lesson: Unit Assessment
Survey says? That is the question today, as students work on three different tasks to assess the how they are doing with the skills from the current unit.