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Story Setting - The Art Lesson by Tomi dePaola
Students read the book The Art Lesson by Tomi dePaola and analyze the story. In this setting lesson, students discuss the importance of the setting and how it helps us understand the story. Students answer questions and chart their...
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Priceless Gifts
Students explore the concepts of friendship. In this character education lesson, students read the book Priceless Gifts and discuss friendship. Students illustrate a picture of them doing something nice for a friend and connect the...
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Count it, Glue it, Read it!
Students identify numbers 1-10 and count objects to match corresponding numbers. In the number sense lesson, students create a counting book, matching numbers they've written on index cards with the correct number of items (beans,...
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Rooster's Night Out
Students explore folktales. In this folktale lesson, students listen to a story from another country and discuss the characters. Students retell the story using puppets and do coloring sheets. Students do a sequencing cut and paste...
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The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
Students read the story The Day Jimmy's Boa At the Wash and put the event boxes in order from the beginning to end of the story. For this sequencing lesson plan, students do this on the computer.
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Winter vs. Summer
Students explore the seasons. In this winter and summer instructional activity, students read The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and Summer by Maria Ruis. Students compare the 2 seasons as they create t-charts, try on seasonal clothing,...
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6 Traits: Organization
Students make logical patterns in their writing to demonstrate the trait of organization. In this organization lesson plan, students focus on events proceeding logically.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
6 Traits: conventions
Learners watch a video and write using conventions. In this conventions lesson plan, students edit their writing for the correct spelling, grammar, and paragraph usage.
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Activity Plan 3-4: Let's Find Signs!
Students develop early reading skills as they explore signs and their meanings. For this early childhood lesson plan, students identify various signs and their meanings. Students use laminated signs as manipulatives in matching and...
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Vegetable Soup: A Reverse Recipe
Students cook up a healthy soup. In this early childhood food and cooking lesson, students gain knowledge about healthy diets, identify a variety of fruits and vegetable, and identify the connection between food served in the home and...
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Anansi Goes to Lunch
Students read the story Anansi Goes to Lunch and complete many language arts-based activities to go with the book. For this language arts lesson plan, students complete activities including phonics, writing, coloring, counting, role...
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Find the Question
Students look at a group of statements, and pick out the one statement that is actually a question. In this question lesson plan, students eliminate statements as they read.
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How Does It Feel?
Students identify the textures of materials in their environments in order to expand their language, math, sensory, and observational skills. In this sensory activity lesson, students first write a list of different words to describe...
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Baby Talk
Students read the story Toilet Tales and discuss the importance of using grown up words and not baby talk words. In this speaking lesson plan, students discuss how they are now in school and use appropriate language.
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Let's Learn About Jobs
Students evaluate the jobs that their parents do. For this literature-based social studies lesson, the teacher introduces the concept of work both at home and on the job and leads the children in the creation of a Venn diagram to aid in...
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The Very Busy Spider Art Project
Students listen to the story The Very Busy Spider and participate in an art activity related to the book. In this story inspired art lesson plan, students use a Very Busy Spider printable and cut out the spider's body and...
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Monitor and Clarify Unknown Words in Corgiville Fair
Students identify unknown words and select a strategy to comprehend text. In this vocabulary lesson plan students listen for specific words as the teacher reads. Students try to figure out what the meaning of the specific words are. The...
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Homeschool, Kindergarten and Preschool Alphabet Lesson Plan for Letter H
Young scholars participate in activities related to letter H. In this letter H lesson, students practice handwriting, and letter recognition through a letter search puzzle. Young scholars participate in activities related to letter H...
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The Letter B (b)
Students discover words through text, audio and images that begin with the letter B. For this letter B lesson, students download an ebook and navigate through an interactive reading activity.
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Learning Language: School-Home Links
In this basic language worksheet, students look at the picture on the page, and tell a family member about it. The family member writes down what the child says underneath the picture, and reads the child's words back to him/her....
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The Clever Monkey Rides Again
How very clever. No need to monkey around with this resource. Rob Cleveland's version of the West African tale, "The Clever Monkey Rides Again," is used as the basis for multiple of cross-curricular activities including exercises...
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Phonics Lesson Planning Guide
So much to teach, so little time. Keep track of phonics instruction with a guide that permits you to plan phonics lessons addressing 12 difference concepts, in four strands, in the handwriting, maintenance, instruction, and...
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Finding Meaning in the Badge
Children who are three to five years old study two rank badges from the Qing dynasty to develop an understanding of social rank, language skills, and symbolism. The instructional activity is discussion-based and requires learners to...
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Beginning Consonant Sounds
Young readers practice their beginning consonant sounds. Solid worksheets prompt students to practice their consonant in fun ways. These worksheets use Clifford the Big Red Dog as a theme, and give the kids excellent and colorful practice.