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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Glossary

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Plot Kindergarten Unit: Retelling a Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach retelling a story using plot elements through explanation, guided practice, and independent practice as learners develop the skill. The text, My Red Balloon by Eve Bunting, must be provided by the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a lesson in which students identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating Question and Answer Books Through Guided Research

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for five lessons that develop research skills in primary learners by having them create their own question and answer books. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Three Meals for Gregory

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson begins with a review of the food guide pyramid. The book Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat (not provided through lesson) is read and discussed in light of healthy eating. In groups, students create healthy meals from...
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Better Lesson: Say What?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This is a practice lesson designed to excite sports fans in a unit about determining who is speaking in a story. The students practice this specific skill as the teacher models it in the hook. They get guided practice sorting and...
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Better Lesson: Look Who's Talking

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This is an introductory lesson to learning who is speaking in a story. The students do this specific skill after the teacher models it in the hook. They get guided practice sorting and labeling who is talking in the guided practice and...
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Other

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Groundhog Day 2010 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Designed for Grades K-8, this teaching guide is chock-full of ideas for celebrating Groundhog Day, with activities like making shadow puppets, examining weather lore and studying cloud formations.
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Better Lesson: Who Said That?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
It is important for students to learn how to identify who is telling the story. This lesson not only asks students to identify the speaker but also asks the students to start identifying the point of view in the guided practice and...
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Better Lesson: The Fox and the Grapes Moral

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will get exposure to a folktale and work to understand the moral. This lesson uses two fables "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Fox and the Hen". The lesson involves guided practice where the students write notes on the left...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional activity, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning. When Molly and...
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Other

Teach With Picture Books: One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Author provides a summary, discussion questions, background information, pre-reading and after-reading questions, as well as extension ideas for math and language arts for the folk tale from India, One Grain of Rice.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: How to Use the Guidebooks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A guide to teaching ELA Guidebooks, English language arts curriculum made up of units focused around a collection of texts. Made by teachers for teachers, the guidebook units ensure all students read, understand, and express their...
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Scholastic

Scholastic Explorers: Ocean Life

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson plan explores how human activity has an impact on turtles, sea otters, and dolphins in different parts of the world. Your students will read field reports from the sites and evaluate data that is offered.
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Better Lesson: Arctic vs. Antarctic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be able to identify similarities and differences between two texts about the polar habitats by using a Venn diagram. Included in this lesson are guided questions to use while reading, a printable Venn Diagram, and pictures...
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Better Lesson: Accountable Talk Introduction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learning to engage in collaborative conversations allows children to learn about their world, to become familiar with words, and to build a solid foundation for the development of reading and writing skills. This lesson introduces rules...
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Better Lesson: Ew, Gross!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, young scholars will be able to gather information from provided resources to answer a question. Using the book "Owls", the teacher will read the book while asking guiding questions. After the book, the students will have...
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Better Lesson: Work Out Together

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will read an article and determine the author's point and identify the reasons the author gives to support his or her point. This lesson requires analysis by the students and a great deal of higher-order thinking as they...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: The Color Monster [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Explore how our emotions color our lives and add depth to our stories.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: What Lives Under a Rock?

For Teachers K - 1st
After reading and discussing the book "Under One Rock: Bugs, Slugs, and Other Ughs" by Anthony D. Frederick, young scholars are equipped with tools for observing nature and are taken on a guided walk. They find a rock to overturn, and...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Connecting the Story "Diary of a Worm" to a Daily Activity Diary

For Teachers K - 1st
Beginning with reading, "Diary of a Worm" to the students, guide a discussion about how the story is like real worms. The students then keep a day by day activity diary of all the things that happen in their lives to compare their lives...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will read and discuss the story, Ira Sleeps Over, by Bernard Waber and write a persuasive paragraph about the story, using a Think-sheet to guide the writing. [Requires Adobe Reader.]

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