Learners focus on the concept of friendship by writing and singing songs, talking about friendship skills and creating textured art images about the benefits of having and keeping friends. They also read a book and watch a video about...

In this literacy worksheet, students practice the skill of printing to create a full sentence following the theme of the illustration that can be colored also.

In this literacy worksheet, students practice the skill of printing to create a full sentence following the theme of the illustration that can be colored also.

In this literacy worksheet, students practice the skill of printing to create a full sentence following the theme of the illustration that can be colored also.

A continuation of the lesson The Teacher is Missing, this plan focuses on refining and remembering a previously recorded class list of rules. Included in this resource are several discussion prompts aimed at getting learners to...

More of a worksheet than a complete lesson plan, this resource includes several pre-reading and post-reading discussion prompts for The Bernstein Bears and Too Much Teasing. The prompts on this worksheet are designed to help...

Providing a template for a discussion of Eric Carle and his works, this presentation has empty spaces left specifically for adding pictures and information about this author. This exploration of Carle is only rudimentary, but a novel...

Practice sounding out multi-syllable words with this scaffolded lesson. Learners decode words by segmenting them into phonemes and combining the sounds. Your lines are in bold here, but you can easily use this simply as an outline...

When scholars re-tell a story, do they boil it down to important details in a logical order? Practice summarizing narratives using this think-aloud strategy, which is scripted here for your convenience. After explaining why this is an...

Assess the spelling skills of your beginning readers with a simple worksheet. Looking at a list of five CVC words, children must correctly match each one to another word with exactly the same spelling. An easy way...

What are your pupils' favorite memories? Writing is one of the most difficult skills to master and writing every day for short periods of time is a fantastic way to improve overall expository writing skills and ability with writing...

Th, wh, ch, and sh are only some of the consonant digraphs early readers need to master. Increase skills and digraph recognition with a fun game. Children find words containing an initial or final digraph, circle them, and then write...

Youngsters compose their own jingles using a model pattern. The jingles are meant to be composed for a favorite food. After a class discussion on jingles, and listening to some recorded jingles, learners set out to make up one of their...

Playing a simple game of catch, and empathizing with someone who drops the bean bag, is the basis for a game on being a good sport. In it, learners engage in a class discussion about winning and losing. It's always easy to win, but not...

Learning how to do things, and realizing that one has capability to do things is how children begin to build their self-esteem. A simple instructional activity beginning with a class discussion about student accomplishments. Next, kids...

Here is a nice way to allow your pupils to recognize important people in their lives. After a class discussion that focuses on the many unrecognized everyday heroes, kids make a list of their everyday heroes. Learners create an award for...

Learners discover how to read with expression. By reading and rereading decodable words in connected texts, students study the importance of expressions and how it can make a book more enjoyable.

The skill of prediction as a reading strategy is explored. Learners are shown how to use clues within a story, along with pictures, to make predictions as to what's going to happen in the story. A clever in-class game which uses objects...

Students read and discuss literature containing characters who help and support one another. They identify caring vocabulary and actions and work together to design and play a card game that promotes caring attitudes and skills.

Students study the history of ginger and its uses. They discuss traditions of building gingerbread houses in Germany, England, and the United States. Using modeling material, students create their own gingerbread houses. Gingerbread...

Students read about tigers in both fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose. They study tiger markings in photographs of living tigers to create a sculptural mask reflecting their knowledge of tiger markings. Afterward, they write and...

Students organize and make plans to interview their relatives about their family history and view any heirlooms, diaries or photographs their relatives may have kept over the years. They write and illustrate the story of their family's...

Pupils study animals in literature, science, or social studies. They design an animal mask based on the information they collect. Students create a 3-D animal mask and embellish it with details. They read a story or find information...

Students engage in the writing of a story about space. They brainstorm in small groups to create ideas for original stories. Students use their imaginations to depict a scene that is part of the story. They could also use the...