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Giving Thanks for Food and Farms
Sarah Stewart’s The Gardener and Food from Farms by Nancy Dickmann display the importance of community farms. After reading these short picture books, class members draw connections between farms and the food we eat each day. As a...
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Thank You
In this identifying "-ank" words learning exercise, students use the words in the word box to finish the story, read the sentences, and write a thank you letter. Students write 7 answers.
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National Thank You Month and Letter Writing
Improve writing skills while teaching students the importance of expressing gratitude.
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Career Education for Early Elementary Grades
It's never too early to connect children with the real world meaning of their work. A series of four one-hour sessions, plus a field trip, make up this unit on college and career readiness for first and second graders. After viewing a...
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Letter Error Correction
In this editing activity, 1st graders read, edit and correct a letter written with both present simple and present continuous tenses from Jane to her pen-friend in Australia.
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Big Grammar Book
With this comprehensive language arts resource in your arsenal, you'll never have to look for another grammar activity! Whether you're teaching kindergartners how to write the upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet, or helping...
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Printing Practice Worksheets- The Whole Alphabet
In this whole alphabet printing practice activity set, students follow numbered directional arrows to print both upper and lower case letters. They trace one row of the upper case letter, one row of the lower case letter, before printing...
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Thankful List
Students practice using free association as a pre-writing technique as they list things that they are thankful for. They share the lists of words and apply them when they write a descriptive essay or poem after identifying commonalities...
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Meeting our Basic Needs
Students brainstorm the basic needs of the community and create a chart. In this volunteerism activity, students recognize people in the community who have given charity in the community. Students read biographies of these charitable...
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Alphabetical Order
In this letter recognition worksheet, students examine each letter set for numbers one through fifteen. Students then put the letters for each number in alphabetical order and write them on the blank line.
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Build a Word
Students explore new words through letters or letter groups. In this lesson about words, students use index cards to build new words. Each index card contains one letter or letter group. Students utilize different strategies like...
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Spelling Takes a Hit!
Learners actively practice spelling words. In this spelling lesson, students use a flyswatter to swat at letters that spell each of their spelling words.
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Phonogram and Rhyming Word Sheets
In this 22 page set of phonogram and rhyming word worksheets, students add letter tiles to photograms to make words. They work with phonograms such as up, ut, ip, it, in, ug, en, et, ig, ap, at, an, aw, ay, ot, op, am, un, to make word,...
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Long ee or ea
Students practice spelling words with the long e sounds using ee or ea. In this ee or ea lesson plan, students complete words using the ee or ea pattern, identify rhyming words, and write a rhyming poem using ee words. Using word and...
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Introduce "th"
Students explore language arts by participating in a pronunciation activity. In this word sound lesson plan, students discuss the sound made by the letters /th/ and identify words where that sound appears. Students participate in a game...
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Power of Speech
Students practice giving compliments and using words of praise. In this vocabulary lesson, students listen to the parable Yettle's Feathers and determine ways to use speech in positive ways instead of through rumors, tattling and insults.
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Intergenerational Friendships
Students interview senior citizens. In this communications activity, students read the book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and discuss how to be sensitive to people of a different generation. Students develop interview questions and...
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Sounding Out CVCE Words
First graders explore vowels and consonants by participating in a flash card activity. In this phonetics lesson, 1st graders discuss the difference between short and long vowels and identify them within a story told to them by their...
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Linking Verbs and Adjectives
In this linking verbs and adjectives instructional activity, students choose phrases from a word bank to complete conversations. Students match phrases to six sentence.