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Tales to Live By

For Teachers 1st
Students explore the concept of theme. In this fairy tales lesson, students read several tales and complete hands-on activities, art projects, and dramatic play that lead to an awareness of the themes of the tales.
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School Days

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners identify colors, days and vocabulary related to objects in their classroom. They examine pictures and identify the different objects. They write sentences about what they did on each day of the week.
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Report Writing in Primary Grades

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners learn how to read a short section and parepare a sentence to share with the group. Students listen to the reading of expository text, restate, in sentence format, one fact learned from that text, and produce a report.
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"Open Your Mouth and Say AH!"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice letter and sound recognition of the vowel o=/o/. They study the tongue twister "Tom got a frog from the pond" and the book, "If You Give a Moose a Muffin," by Laura Joffe Numeroff with an accompanying worksheet to master.
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Open Wide at the Dentist, "Aaaahh"

For Teachers K - 1st
Study the /o/ in both written and spoken words by reciting a tongue twister and making words using Elkonin letterboxes. Next, write a message about frogs using /o/ words. Finally, listen to a short book talk on "Doc in the Fog" before...
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Penny the Pig Plays with the Letter P

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice recognizing the letter Pp in writing. They work with the Alphabet Chart, alphabet magnets and the chart with "Penny the pig puts on her pretty pink shoes," on it as well as an ABC coloring page with Dr. Seuss'...
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Say Ah . . . OK, Doc

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils distinguish between letters that stand for phonemes that deal with the short /o/ sound. They study how spellings map out the phonemes in oral language in order to be able to read and write words. Each student practices the tongue...
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Aaa-aaa-aaa-choo!!

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils study the /a/ sound by mimicking the sound one makes when they sneeze. Next they work with a tongue twister, which they recite while stretching out the initial short a sound. Next, they practice writing the letter and read "A Cat...
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Say Aaah!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'o' as it makes the short /o/ sound. They recite short /o/ tongue twisters and practice writing the letter 'o'. They rewrite 'Skip to My Lou" using short /o/...
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Alikizam...There's Apple Jam!

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'a' as it makes the short /a/ sound. Through instruction and modeling, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue...
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Then and Now

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore teacher created exploration tub, charts and cards to explain the concept of "Then and Now."
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Language Arts: Then and Now

For Teachers 1st
First graders hear Great Grandma and I. They locate objects representing then (seed) and now (tomato). They make then and now charts for members of their families.
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Spiders Catch Prey

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students see that spiders catch and eat their prey and are also caught and eaten by their enemies. They sort the pictures into animals that spiders eat, those they do not eat, and those that are spiders.
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Narrative Collage

For Teachers K - 6th
Students use a book or passage for their inspiration to create a narrative collage. They need to illustrate the action or the setting.
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Report Writing in Primary Grades

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen and restate facts from a text. They gather and organize information as a class. They create a report and present it to their classmates.
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The Doctor Said Open Up and Say /o/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter O. Students then listen to the book "In the Big Top," and write down the words from the...
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Open Up and Say /o/

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore letters and phonemes. They discuss the phoneme /o/. Students recognize /o/ in both spoken and written words. They discuss the shape their mouths make when saying /o/. Young scholars learn a tongue twister to help...
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Say Ahh!!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the short /o/ sound in spoken words, and recognize the letter symbol /o/. They say a tongue twister emphasizing words with the short /o/ sound. They then listen to the story "In the Big Top" and identify the words...
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O No!

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel O. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice spelling words with the vowel-consonant-e pattern.
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Olly Octopus

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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 associate the phoneme with its letter representation in...
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The Summer Sun is Hot, Hot, Hot

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate /o/ with its letter representation...
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Oscar says Ahhh

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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Abracadabra /a/ /a/ /a/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Got Gulp

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners recognize the phoneme /g/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /g/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the phoneme in various words...