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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Oklahoma Stone Soup

For Teachers K - 8th Standards
Class members complete activities related to the story "Oklahoma Stone Soup." First, pupils read, discuss, and answer questions about the story. Next, to incorporate math into the lesson, learners make stone soup using a variety of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Fable of Franny And Her Fabulous Fainting Goat

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Mix the art of reading comprehension with the skill of telling time. Children in grades two and three will discuss the importance of goats throughout history based on the provided background information. They'll create cute goat clocks...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bee Dance

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Everything a bee does serves a purpose. Learners in grades one through five explore the behaviors of bees through reading and dramatic puppet play. First children will create honey bee puppets, then they will discuss how bees dance to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Garden Grid

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
Basically, your class reads about different garden plants from an included handout and seed packets that you provide, and then uses a grid to plan out where to place the plants. They can practice counting with the seeds, grouping,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Compound Words

For Students 2nd Standards
In this compound words worksheet, 2nd graders match words to become compound words and then write the word next to its clue. Students make 3 compound words.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Agriculture is a Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
What do a bicycle and the life cycle have in common? Cover this and more with the series of cross-curricular activities included in this plan. Learners do everything from making bracelets that represent the life cycle to checking out the...
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
This page gives students specific guidelines & tips for a descriptive writing assignment. Students can publish descriptive writing here, as well. A thorough teacher's guide to descriptive writing is also provided.
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Activity
Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Wacky Web Tales: The Weather Station

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This fill-in-the-blank Wacky Web Tale includes a story about a weather station. It is fun and serves an interactive grammar review. Wacky Web Tales are fun and interactive grammar reviews. Students fill in blanks for different parts of...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Second Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Narrative Prompt

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson engages students in working with narrative reading and writing. Students will listen to different stories and fill out story maps for them. Then students will plan a personal narrative about a "surprise" on a graphic...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Second Grade Writing Lesson #2/Narrative Prompt

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson engages students in listening to one or more narratives, Then students will engage in the writing process to develop their own personal narrative. Exemplar narratives are provided.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Jake's Tale (Long a Listening Practice)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun read-along story for practicing and listening to the long a sound. Great graphics and animation.
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Graphic
Other

Pic lits.com: Inspired Picture Writing

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This innovative resource offers a wide selection of photographs and words to stimulate writing in an interactive format.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing an Opinion in Response to the Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students need to have lots of opportunities to share their opinions based on text. For this lesson, the teacher will read the story, Jack and the Beanstalk, multiple times before the students create their opinion. The detailed process of...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Introduction to Opinion Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students' opinions are a crucial step in the foundation of good writing. After reading 'I will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato', students will state their own opinion about a topic through writing.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Describing a Memory

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be able to use a combination of drawing, dictating, or writing to narrate a single event and provide a reaction to what happened. This lesson centers around the book "The Song and Dance Man", a great Grandparents Day activity!
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tell Me About It

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be able to describe familiar items and with prompting and support provide additional details by making Flubber. Making Flubber encourages students to engage in descriptive dialogue which helps develop the ability to provide...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Guess My Solid

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Descriptive details are used as students develop a guessing game poster for others to try and guess their chosen solid. Included in this detailed lesson plan are videos, samples of student work, a printable worksheet, an assessment...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing an Opinion Based on Facts From a Text

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Students will plan a paragraph that states their opinion and cites evidence to justify their opinion about an informational text. This lesson uses biographies since students can easily be able to write down factual information from the...
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Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: A Piece of Cake

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] For this lesson, students will present their opinion through drawing, writing and speaking. Students will enjoy discussing their favorite animals, pizza and cake. Students will learn about...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Awe Inspiring, Extraordinary, Erudite Kids

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Using complex language, including rich descriptors, is necessary for mastery of the CCSS Standards. This lesson is a great lesson in using adjectives to enrich speaking and writing. Included are a video demonstration and printable...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This instructional activity is a final step towards supporting students to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of students will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details...
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Sounds of Speech

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...