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Irregular Word Fluency, Word Baseball
Young scholars review irregular words and build fluency by playing a game. In this irregular word lesson plan, students label a variety of blank index cards, then post the index cards around the room as signs that...
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Letter Sound Accuracy, Musical Chairs
Students explore word structure by participating in a game of musical chairs. In this phonics lesson, students discuss the letters of the alphabet and identify words that begin with each letter and the sounds they make. Students...
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Baseball
Young scholars practice sounding out words. In this phonics lesson, students play a baseball game, practicing sounding or stretching out words for accuracy. Young scholars read the word off the card and stretch it out.
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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. For this sensory activity lesson, students first write a list of different words to describe...
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Spill the Beans
Students play an alphabet game with beans that asks them create simple short vowel words. They spill several marked beans onto a paper and separate those that have fallen face-up. They arrange the beans into words and read them aloud.
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It's Time for a Rhyme
Students listen to the story, There's a Wocket in My Pocket, by Dr. Seuss. They discuss the rhyming in the book and then play a rhyming game.
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ABC BINGO
Students participate in a homemade ABC Bingo game to reinforce the alphabet. They write a different lower case letter in each block on their card and continue until the card is filled up.
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Brown Bear
Students listen as the teacher reads "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" and then participate in a game that mirrors the actions of the book. They engage many of their locomotive skills.
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Move Your Body- Just Like Clifford!
Students read the book Clifford's Sports Day. In this kinesthetic lesson, students mimic movements from the text and participate in a game of "Simon Says."
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International Festival: Germany
Students complete several activities to learn about the German culture. In this German culture lesson, students read the 'Hansel and Gretel' story and create a paper gingerbread house. Students complete a matching game for the story....
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The Alphabet
Pupils discover the letters of the alphabet by participating in a game. In this phonics instructional activity, students create books about themselves using their favorite toys and pets. Pupils utilize a computer program...
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Sounding out accuracy, The Sum of the Parts
Students explore word structures by participating in a group activity. In this word segment lesson, students collaborate in small groups and pass out cards with certain letters that can form words when put together. Students win the game...
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Sorting: Library Books
Students discover organization by participating in a class game. In this information sorting lesson, students utilize the Internet to play a library role-playing game with their classmates. Students answer study questions about library...
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Sorting
Students explore indexing by participating in a library book search. In this sorting lesson, students complete a "flood game" on the Internet and discuss the techniques of locating books in a library. Students locate specific titles in...
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Rainbow Dice Spelling
Students participate in a spelling game to help them with their spelling words. They role a die and write the given word as many times as the die says too. They write the words in different colors to review them as well.
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Mama, Do You Love Me?
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /m/ letter sound. They participate in a class "I Spy" game and identify objects in the room that contain the "m" sound, then as a class recite a tongue twister. Students then...
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Eager E
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /e/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter E. Students then play a concentration type game, listen to the book "Lee and the Team,"...
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Rhyme Time
Students explore phonemes through rhymes. They discuss nursery rhymes and rhyming words. Students read "Jack and Jill" and discuss the rhyming words in the nursery rhyme. They play a rhyming game and identify words that rhyme.
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Let's Go to the Farm
Students explore corresponding letters of the alphabet with the corresponding phonemes using farm animals. They create a classroom word wall of the items they saw on a trip to the farm or zoo. Students create pictures to go along with...
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Learning About Maps
Learners investigate the many uses and features of maps and globes and locate where they live on both. For this map lesson, student play a travel game and create their own maps to explore states, continents, countries, and islands.
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I Am Special
Students conclude and acknowledge that each person is unique and special. In this I Am Special lesson plan, students compare their digital photograph to pictures of people in magazines to determine likenesses/differences. They describe...
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FUN-damental movement!
Students move within the gymnasium area while working on color/shape recognition, change of speed and directional movements, and cooperation/teamwork. For this FUN-damental movement lesson, students work in partners on a treasure chest...
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Thanksgiving Literacy Activity
Students explore why Thanksgiving is celebrated. In this cross-curriculum lesson, students listen to the book Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes, and complete the sentence frame "I am thankful for ____." Students practice phonemic...
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Short A Words
Students study the short "a" sound. In this word study lesson, students brainstorm words that begin with a short "a" sound and are given a picture of the word. Students play an online game to reinforce the concepts taught.