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Read Works

Read Works: A School Map

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction piece tells the story of a little girl who draws a map of the school for her little brother. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works

Read Works: The Difference Between Maps and Globes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares the difference between maps and globes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works

Read Works: How to Draw a Map Passage & Question Set

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains how to draw a map. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions...
Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Character Map [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Teachers will learn about importance of character maps. Teachers will learn how to implement character maps; measure progress with character maps; and find research to support the use of character maps. Several reproducible character...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Capture the Flag

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson requires students to read maps in order to play the game capture the flag.
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Code.org

Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Happy Maps

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The bridge from algorithms to programming can be a short one if students understand the difference between planning out a sequence and encoding that sequence into the appropriate language. This activity will help students gain experience...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to map the story. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Map the Path in My Father's Dragon

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps young scholars understand map concepts. After listening to the teacher read aloud each chapter of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, students discuss the book and use a map and general direction terms to...
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Find Captain Hook's Treasure

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Lesson that helps students understand maps, map directions, and map symbols. Students use teacher-created maps to locate numbered keys on the playground.
Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

I. Science Ma Te: Integrating Science, Math and Technology

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...
Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools:more Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature and Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for teaching reading and literature. Elaborate graphic organizers are provided for the following: story maps, character study charts, making text connection maps, conflict...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Map Key

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the purpose of a map, map symbols, and the map key or legend. Activote questions reinforce the concepts.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Treasure Hunt

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Get hands-on with learners in building a map with a class. Take students outside to a sandbox and work with them to build a map of campus. Once the map is drawn you can turn their design into a treasure hunt to assess map interpretation.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Get to Know Big Al

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this instructional activity the students will read and discuss the story Big Al, by Andrew Clements. Students will identify the story elements of Big Al and complete a story element map. Students will also do a character analysis...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Carnival Parade in Rio: Time & Data: Reading the Time

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Jose lives in Rio de Janeiro which is known for its carnival. Join him and find out at what time the parade starts.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Meaning: Semantic Map

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners complete a graphic organizer to learn a new word. Materials are included.
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lost and Found Activity Plan

For Students 1st - 3rd
Gorillas, groceries, pirate treasure, and aardvark homes: these are just a few of the things children will search for and find in this week's Afterschool Adventure, Lost and Found. Children will use position words like above, below, and...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Zoom School: United States of America

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use this resource to explore each state to get facts, maps and symbols; learn about the presidents; read about bald eagles and dinosaur fossils found in the U.S., find fun and exciting patriotic crafts and more.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lost in Greasy World

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Children use spatial skills to put together a map that has been broken up into pieces. This activity will help them understand spatial sense and practice using a map.
Graphic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Estados Unidos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Easy-to-read Spanish map of the United States with country information below. A nice site with links to the States and the rest of the world's countries as well!
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting With "Then and Now"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson is a great small group reading lesson that has a social studies connection. In this lesson, learners will be comparing and contrasting schools from long ago and schools of today using informational texts. Included are...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Inca Temple: Number: Count to 30

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
On this interactive website, student practice various math skills using a real life scenario at the Incan pyramids. Those skills include reading numbers from 0 to 30 and matching numbers to the number of objects.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Movie Theater: Number: Count to 20

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
On this interactive site, students practice basic number concepts which include reading numerals up to twenty, grouping objects up to twenty, and forward counting to twenty.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Reading and Writing About Miss Moo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson for early elementary and special education students utlizing the book Miss Moo Goes to the Zoo by Kelly Graves and graphic organizers to identify elements in a story (title, author, setting, characters, etc.). Students participate...

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