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Celebrate You

For Teachers 1st
First graders locate place of birth on a map. They identify their birthdays and place a graphing square with their birthday written on it under the corresponding month. They compare birthdays on the graph. They read "P.B. Bear's Birthday...
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Happy the Fish

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the ways in which people's actions affect fish. They discuss pollutants that are in the water. Students define the terms chemicals, cooling pond, and pollutant. They create a book about Happy the Fish.
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Open Wide and Say Ahh

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Putt-Putt Old Car

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the phoneme /p/ both in written and spoken language while differentiating from the phoneme /b/. They think about the "put, put" sound that an old car makes, and work with at tongue twister. Next, they write the letter p,...
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Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars recognize the grapheme g in its upper and lower case form. They produce the corresponding sound for the letter g. Students go over what shape your mouth makes and how the back of your throat moves when making the sound for g.
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"Eddie the Excited Elephant"

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize each letter in the alphabet and the phoneme it makes. They recognize phonemes in spoken words and their corresponding letters or spelling maps and distinguish phonemes in their oral contexts.
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Iiizzy is Iiicky Sticky!

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars answer a series of questions about the different sounds that the letter I makes. They observe a picture about a girl and the letter I. They practice a tongue twister with the different sounds of I. They practice writing...
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Uhhh..What?

For Teachers K
Students identify and become competent and in reading the letter u, pronounced /uh/. They also use and spell words with the correspondance u = /uh/ by the use of a letterbox lesson, reading a short story, and writing a message.
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Cup Cake Recipes

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a cupcake recipe and then answer several questions about the recipe. There is also a sequencing sheet to read and follow as well as a parent information sheet to get signed.
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Zooming into Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read and reread decodable words in connected text. In this language arts lesson, students focus on improving their fluency to help them gain more meaning from the text. The story focused on is Arthur's Loose Tooth.  
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Weather Journal

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders keep a weather journal. In this weather instructional activity, 5th graders define types of weather, summarize types of weather, and keep a weather journal.
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Decorate-a-Cookie

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use cookies and candy to practice finding the sum of three single-digit numbers.
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Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine the structure of sonnets. They compare and contrast them with modern day poetry. They write their own sonnet after changing the language in another sonnet to see why the author choosed certain words.
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Benjamin Franklin and Electricity

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study Benjamin Franklin and participate in simple experiments in electricity.
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Animals: Spelling activity

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this animals worksheet, students label animal pictures, watch a video, unscramble animal words, and write animals according to their description. Students complete 4 activities.
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What is a Successful Reader?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students identify and discuss characteristics of "successful reader," describe what goes on in their minds while they read various texts, and explain through presentation techniques that readers use to comprehend text.