Listen to a song about how trees change throughout the seasons. Do the matching activity and print off an activity that sees how well you can follow directions.

Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short story about colors. Delightful illustrations that clearly match color words with their corresponding colors aid comprehension. Good reinforcement through word...

Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about colors and shapes. Good practice for children learning basic English vocabulary, with excellent graphics to aid comprehension.

Critical thinking, comprehension and analysis skills are the focus of this physical activity. Good beginning to teaching different ways of looking at things.

For this lesson, 1st graders will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.

Teach about American culture while developing language, listening and reading skills. This lesson plan includes the TESOL goals and standards.It provides many follow up activities.

This lesson plan includes a group of activities that will teach students how to use vocabulary knowledge to help with comprehension of a text. Split into three activities, this lesson plan encourages students to use prior knowledge, word...

This lesson plan offers a step-by-step procedure for teaching students how to identify story elements and to summarize a story. It explains how to use a "Who Am I" activity, as well as a linkage activity in identifying characters and...

Contains plans for lessons that help young scholars explore the nonfiction genre by doing inquiry-based research on animals. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...

Contains plans for eight short lessons that introduce nonfiction texts to second grade students. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...

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...

This lesson connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. Students listen carefully for the animal name and the verb describing how that animal moves. They...

In this activity, young scholars will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the activity and allow the children to "wrangle" with the...

This site is a real find for teachers working with ELL students and all students who want to read great books! The Bookhive presents 100's of reviews of books recommended by librarians associated with the public libraries in Charlotte,...

This lesson plan uses the popular card game, UNO. Students form small groups, and then take turns picking up cards and performing a specific exercise. Each card color has a designated exercise associated with it and the number on the...

In this activity, language and movement unite. There are two teachers who will read a command, once in Mandarin and once in English. The students listen to both languages and then perform what the command is.

In 2005-2006, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in second and third grade classrooms. These included two books for students and a teachers guide with a DVD for...

A nonfiction article where students read about Julie Codispoti, assistant curator at the United States Polar Rock Repository, located at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center. The article provides an overview of Antarctic...

A reader's theater script for Eugene Triviza's children's picture book, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, is provided on these pages. Fifteen character roles are needed in this activity.

In this activity, students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now, by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of their chairs...

Offers the latest news on learning English in Russia. Contains useful links to English language learning resources: tales, songs, games, riddles, lesson plans, proverbs, and a pen pal club.

This activity for young readers includes step-by-step teacher directions, student directions, resources, and rubrics. Students read or listen to two or more versions of a fairy tale and then work in groups to update the fairy tale to a...

Read along as you listen to an animated story about a bear who sleeps too long; then print words and some activities to do with the story.

In this self-scoring practice activity, students read four passages and select the main idea of each.