Students identify a letter of the alphabet. They recognize this letter in print and in spoken language. The letter and phoneme chosen is the letter t and /t/. They write the letter in both lower and upper case. They read 'One Tiny...

Students define philanthropy. In this community service lesson, students assess as a group who at school needs help. Students write letters to offer their assistance where they've found areas of need.

Students are read a book about giving. They discover that giving to others is rewarding. They also locate China on a map and make their own rice cakes.

Students decide what talents are and how they can be used to help others. They recite a poem and write journal entries about using their talents.

Students examine the Chinese calendar and Zodiac signs in this early elementary lesson plan on calendars and culture. Discussions on cultural beliefs and values are emphasized and could be controversial.

Using the computer and the Paint program, Students explore the different tools available in the paint program, and then create a picture showing two sets of pictures and an equation.

Students investigate their individual talents. In this togetherness lesson plan, students listen to the poem "Togetherness Chant" and change the final stanza from play to work. Students brainstorm how they can use their individual...

Young scholars compare and contrast objects and are introduced to a Venn Diagram. In this alike and different lesson plan, students make observations regarding properties of objects. Young scholars classify object and build ideas about...

Classroom teachers will learn about teaching phonics through word families and letter combinations. Teachers will learn how to implement the use of word families and letter combinations, understand how to measure progress with word...

A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.

Find over seventy different word families with common spelling patterns, and lists of elementary level words for each family.

The focus of the instruction of identification strategies in this lesson plan is the book "Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type." Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers Word Families an, at, all, ill, ack. It includes interaction activity with self checking opportunities.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers Word Families an, at, all, ill, ack. It includes interaction activity with self checking opportunities.

This technology-based lesson will help students develop their phonemic awareness by teaching students to hear the sounds in the -ig and -ip word families. It also leads students to apply what they have learned.

An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...

A classroom game to help students create new words from a particular word family. The class is divided into two teams; the first student in each line is given a flyswatter and must go to the board and "swat" the correct letter that...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Flipchart children can drag the beginning letters to make words with the -at and -an word families.

Using four popular children's books, "Corduroy", "Franklin in the Dark", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", and "Chrysanthemum", the Word Wizard interactive game builds vocabulary with related words. Each 30-minute lesson looks for patterns...

[Free Registration/Login Required] After completing this lesson, students will be able to identify and construct words having the ending -at.

Use this list to master the letter combinations which create the long i sound in English words.

This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up lesson.

Play interactive game building IP words. Also practice identifying initial sounds and matching pictures. Short I words: zip, rip, dip, sip.

Play interactive game building AN words. Also practice identifying initial sounds and matching pictures.