Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Communicating Through Pictures

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine photographs, paintings and drawings convey meaning and mood. The ability to 'read' a picture is an important literary skill. This activity gives students the opportunity to tell a story through pictures by creating a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hickory Dickory Dock

For Teachers K - 1st
Students pick out the sounds and -ck written in words. They are taught how to correctly say the sound with their mouth and read Hickory Dickory Dock. Words with the ck sound are underlined for the student's to notice. As an...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sh! Sh! We're in the Library

For Teachers K - 1st
Students focus on the diagraph of sh. They recognize this in both the written and spoken word. To introduce this activity, the teacher asks if anyone's mom or dad has told them shhhh, when they were trying to get them to quiet down. ...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Put a Stop to "Choppy and Stoppy" Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners use a crosscheck strategy to improve their oral reading rate and fluency. They are timed reading "Bud the Sub" orally three times, and work to improve their time and expression each time through. Students encourage each other...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Method for Teaching the Blending of Sounds: Train Technique

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils explore the blending of individual sounds to make words and, using visuals and manipulatives, equate this process to the hooking up of railroad cars to make a train. They link individual letters/sounds to make short words.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Riddles with Blending

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine how blending sounds together helps them pronounce words. They look a flash cards with letters on them in order to blend the letter sounds together before listening to riddles that encourage them to blend letters into...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Beginning Reading Design: Blending Boats

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study how to blend the sounds together in words with the CVC form. They use letter cards and the books, "Tin Man Fix-It," and Dr. Seuss', Green Eggs and Ham. They work with /m/ words to blend the sounds together to read words....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Young scholars study Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt. In this biographical lesson, students read Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride. Young scholars write their own biography, create a timeline of events from the book, and write a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sharing & Magic Words

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students share and communicate with each other. In these two lessons about sharing and using words to communicate students will begin to socialize with each other. Students practice sharing by learning how to "take turns" and by...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I Am Special

For Teachers K
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...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Who Will Help?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students analyze the characters in the book The Little Red Hen. In this character study lesson plan, students discuss the behavior of the characters and write about positive ways to work together for a common goal.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is a Philanthropist?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss the conceptual framework of philanthropy. In this introduction to philanthropy lesson, students define the term philanthropist and read the story Lion and the Mouse. Students discuss the concepts of philanthropy...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice sorting books. In this sorting lesson, students play the Flood Game on the PBS web site. With knowledge of the sorting system used by libraries, students sort small numbers of books using categories devised by their...
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln

For Teachers K
Students study four of the most influential and important presidents in United States history. In this United States presidents lesson, students learn the facts and histories to four of the most influential presidents in history - George...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Eat Your Words!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils make spelling words using cheese crackers. For this spelling lesson, students use Scrabble Cheez It crackers to make words before eating them.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Portrait of a Hero

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete a series of interactive activities to explore their beliefs about heroes and heroism. In this hero analysis lesson, students define the meaning of the words hero and heroic. Students research U.S. heroes and everyday...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Words and Letters Practice #3

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this words and letters practice worksheet, students practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice sight words. 
Worksheet
Curated OER

Word and Letter Practice #6

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word and letter practice worksheet, students say the name and sounds of given letters, read simple sentences, practice reading sight words and practice "chunks" of words.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ABC Scavenger Map

For Teachers K
Students explore phonetics by participating in a class game. In this alphabet sounds lesson, students collaborate in a ABC's activity where they identify a random letter, the sound it makes, and place it in it's correct spot on a mat....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduce Vocabulary: One Tiny Turle

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use context clues to figure out the meaning of new vocabulary words in the story, One Tiny Turtle. In this language arts lesson, students listen to the story and raise their hands when they hear the new term used in the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Story Mapping

For Teachers K - 12th
Students prewrite a story using graphic organizers. In this prewriting lesson plan, students create a story map before they start their writing.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Picture Fists Full of Kisses

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Ease children's back-to-school jitters with this primary grade lesson based on the book The Kissing Hand by Ruth E. Harper. Starting off with a singing of the song "I Wish I Had a Little Red Box", children go on to discuss and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Constitution Day

For Teachers K
Students discuss the need for rules in their community and classroom. Using this information, they identify the authority figures at their house, at school and in the community. They are read a book about following the rules and listen...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Baga Drum

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. In this art history lesson, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design and...

Other popular searches