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ESL Kid Stuff

Halloween

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Build vocabulary and get in the Halloween sprit with a collection of festive activities! Here, scholars take part in a holiday celebration, unearth the unknown in mystery feel-boxes, and create monster masks out of paper plates. 
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ESL Kid Stuff

Christmas Lesson 1

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Little ones sing Christmas carols, complete craft projects, and play word games while learning new vocabulary in part one of two-part ESL lesson series.
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Tools for Schools

Book Creator

For Teachers K - 12th
Build beautiful books in whatever style you'd like with an intuitive and adaptable app for constructing books. Kids can add images, drawings, text, and audio to make books about any subject. When complete, learners can wrap up the...
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August House

When Turtle Grew Feathers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Friendship is a valuable part of growing up. Learn about the importance of friendship with a variety of activities based on When Turtle Grew Feathers by Tim Tingle. Kids practice making musical instruments, discussing plot points,...
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Curated OER

Stop Signs, Musical Notes, Letters & Logos: Designing Symbols

For Teachers K - 1st
Students develop an awareness of environmental print, such as signs, logos, brand names, and other print and non-print items that the children see and read in their neighborhood each day. They then engage in active problem solving as...
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Curated OER

Self and General Space in Dance

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars explore the different themes and strategies of dancing by performing in class.  In this physical education activity, students practice moving specific joints and muscles as they train to perform a dance.  Young...
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Curated OER

Rests, Pease Porrige Hot with Game:Music, Rhythm, Beats

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use the nursery rhyme "Pease Porridge Hot" to explore rhythm, beats and rests in music.
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Curated OER

Sports and Hobbies

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore vocabulary related to sports and hobbies. They consider their interests in sports and hobbies in relation to other students. They discuss music and describe a piece of music using simple adjectives.
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Curated OER

Activity Guide for Snow

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Create a cross-curricular learning experience around a shared reading of Cynthia Rylant's book Snow. From writing poetry and a singing a song about snow, to creating paper snowflakes and solving math story problems, this resource...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Rhyme or No Rhyme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars listen to a rhyming song, clap when they hear a rhyme, and shake their heads when they don't. They then draw a pair of objects that rhyme. 
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ABCya

Word BINGO

For Students Pre-K - 4th
Practicing sight words is all fun and games with this app! Users hear, read, and spell words off the Dolch Word List. But that's not all! Players also get to create their own avatar, collect BINGO bugs, view their scores, and more within...
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ESL Kid Stuff

Toys

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
The world is a rainbow of colors in a set of lessons for English learners. Kids review colors with matching games and hide-and-seek, before singing songs about colors and reading a class story.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme or No Rhyme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Rhyming is fun, builds phonemic awareness, and is a tried and true pre-reading skill. This activity helps learners identify words that rhyme. Young scholars listen to a song, locate a rhyming word they hear by clapping then draw a...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency, Letter-Sound Correspondence, Make a Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An activity tests the fluency skills of young readers. Scholars match initial sound cards to letter cards. Pairs take turns and work to locate the most matches before the timer goes off. The activity ends with a peer evaluation.
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Curated OER

Lesson: A Garden Party of My Own

For Teachers K - 5th
Kids look at a beautiful work of art to practice grammar, make connections from life to art, and sketching. They identify all the parts of grammar they see in the image, discuss what they see and do on a picnic, and then draw an imaged...
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Curated OER

Theatrical Economics

For Teachers K - 3rd
Read then role-play the characters from story of If You Give A Pig a Pancake. Young actors use improvisation and characterization to create the characters from the story. They will also write and role play original version of the...
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Anti-Defamation League

10 Ideas for Teaching Black History Month

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Celebrate Black History Month with the help of 10 ideas that delve deep into the history, major events, contributions, famous African Americans, and sheds light on how scholars today can take a proactive stance on current civil rights...
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August House

The Clever Monkey Rides Again

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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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Curated OER

Comparing and Contrasting Heroes

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Here is a language arts instructional activity that can be used with virtually any grade level. The only thing that changes is the reading level of the books. Learners compare and contrast different heroes and the characteristics they...
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Curated OER

Calligraphy, Handwriting And The Alphabet

For Teachers K - 8th
Students produce calligraphy projects using writing skills and unique tools in this six-day Art activity. Emphasis is placed upon the work of Portland, Oregon calligraphy artist Inga Dubay and her experiences with "Italic" writing...
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Curated OER

Making the Connection: Incorporate The Arts Into Every Subject

For Teachers K - 5th
Art, music, movement, and drama will enhance and bring your lessons to life!
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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Spruce up a class reading of the children's book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback with this fun series of activities. Starting with a list of reading comprehension questions and key vocabulary to address during a teacher...
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Curated OER

Rooster's Night Out

For Teachers K
Mitch Weiss and Martha Hamilton's Rooster's Night Out, a retelling of a classic Cuba folktale, launches a cross-curricular study of Cuban cultural traditions. Class members draw the characters from the book, participate in math and...
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Curated OER

Masks and Aesop's Fables

For Teachers K - 4th
Students study and perform Aesop's fables. In this Aesop's fables instructional activity, students read and/or listen to a number of the famous fables. They make masks based on the characters and perform a fable using the masks. They...