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Reaching Students through Literacy Centers

For Teachers K - 8th
Continue the celebration of literacy this month by integrating reading centers into the classroom.
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Unit Lesson on The Gingerbread Man (Elementary, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students sequence the main events of the story, The Gingerbread Man, into chronological order and rewrite the story changing characters and settings.
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Tall Tales: Read, Write, Draw and Sing

For Teachers 2nd
Students get to know the characters and events that shaped American folktales through writing, drawing and singing activities. Handouts and worksheets are included.
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Nina Bonita: Culture and Beauty

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils read Nina Bonita by Ana Maria Machado. For this reading comprehension/ geography lesson, students recall various parts of the story and create a map of where the rabbit traveled throughout the story. They participate in group...
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Analyzing Key Ideas and Details in Nonfiction

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore nonfiction texts. In this language arts lesson, students read a nonfiction text and make predictions. Students identify facts and opinions in the text and draw conclusions as they read.
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Making Predictions by Analyzing Key Ideas and Details

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make predictions. In this language arts lesson, students read nonfiction texts and make predictions about what they are going to read. Students confirm and revise their predictions as they read the text.
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Story Sequence

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this retelling a story worksheet, students record the title and author, and retell the story in the sequence the events happened. Students write six short answers.
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How Does a Pumpkin Grow and Glow?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students write sequence of events needed to produce a carved jack-o-lantern.
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Joffee Numeroff with their teacher, discuss the concept of cause and effect, and create their own story boards for a class story.
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Dr. Seuss

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners read books by the same author and compare what they find.  In this Dr. Seuss instructional activity, students learn about Dr. Seuss' writing style, listen for the rhyme scheme in his stories, and create a KWL chart on Dr....
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify the cause and effect in the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. In this cause and effect lesson, students listen to the story If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and discuss what the cause and effect is. As a follow-up,...
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Ed Tech

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice writing complete sentences and sequencing three or more events. They interact with technology, demonstrate effective communications skills via writing and analyze all the ways that one might make informed decisions.
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Organized Centers

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students are challenged to make three-dimensional time lines of story events from stories they have read. They practice sequencing events and writing sentences correctly. In addition, they write sentences that correspond with pictures...
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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves Storia Teaching Guide

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves? Little learners read a new version of the old swallow story with a fall twist as they try to answer the big question; Why is that lady swallowing all that weird stuff? The teacher's guide...
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Measure

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are asked what activities or things that they do each day. They are then asked do you do that in the morning, afternoon, or night? Students are then asked which of those things do you do first, second, third, and etc.
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Life Cycle of a Butterfly: Kidspiration

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders view a video about butterflies and recall its life cycle. They will also complete a Kidspiration slide show to illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly and study a word list of butterfly vocabulary to include in their...
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Children Around The World

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read a multicultural book called "This Is the Way We Go to School" by Edith Baer and Steve Bjorhman. They become culturally aware of the different nationalities around the world and different ways that they may do things on a...
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In Touch with Apples

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read "How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World", the story of a girl who traveled the world to find the ingredients to make her apple pie. They conduct a series of interdisciplinary activities including testing their senses,...
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Which Way???

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this ordering events in a story worksheet, students read the story and number the sentences in the correct sequence. Students fill in 6 blanks.
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Women In Space: Sally Ride

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders explore the life and accomplishments of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. Through reading and discussion, they recall details from Sally Ride's life. 
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Comprehension Through The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students sequence seven events from "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by matching the correct event with the day of the week. They recall details from the story as they unscramble words on a worksheet.
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Steps to Freedom

For Teachers K - 4th
Students complete discussion and reading comprehension activities for the novel Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheax Nelson. In this African American history instructional activity, students discuss the Underground Railroad and complete a...
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Telling the Time

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils practice telling time by completing the various activities. In this telling time instructional activity, students view a large clock and discuss the words 'to' and 'past' the hour. Pupils count in 5s using the clock and then set...
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Tiki, Tiki Rainforest

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore fascinating world of rainforest, and participate in activities such as adopt-an-acre-of-the- rainforest, adopt-a-rainforest-animal, sequencing, comparing and contrasting, word processing and searching the Internet.