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Primary Picture Words
Young scholars identify high frequency words and recite them verbally. In this high frequency words activity, students use creative pens to trace high frequency words on paper. Young scholars participate in an interactive...
Museum of Disability
Taking Visual Impairment to School
What is the world like when you can't see, or when your vision is impaired? Learn about how Lisa communicates with the world around her with Taking Visual Impairment to School by Rita Whitman Steingold. Learners answer...
Queen of Heaven School
Computer Curriculum
Need some extra resources to get your class computer savvy? How about several years' worth? Show pupils in K-8 a progression of proficiency in a series of computer lessons. Learners master the basics, then work with the Microsoft Office...
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Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and Writers
Learners participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. For this word wall lesson, students...
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Looks Like Christmas: Exploring Sight
Students participate in various hands-on activities to determine what life is like without the sense of sight.
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King Bidgood's in the Bathtub
students add their own scenarios to the book using the same rhythmic pattern. Students describe what is happening in the picture as a class shared writing activity. Students discuss reasons why the people in the kingdom were upset that...
Mississippi State University
The Five Senses
Your learners engage their five senses every day without knowing it. Help them identify their experiences and extend their understanding with a month full of lessons designed for the five senses. Kids focus on a different sense every...
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Dinosaurs
In this reading activity, students study and learn the sight words "does" and "may." Students make a 6 page book about dinosaurs. Students color the pictures and read the sentences which contain the sight words. Example: "What does a...
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Seeds
In this reading worksheet, students study and learn the sight word "they" by making an 8 page book about seeds. Students color and read the pages which have frequent use of the word "they." For example, "They will need water."
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Phonics: Foot (Printing Practice)
In this sight word and printing practice activity, students learn to recognize and print the word "foot." Students write the word in DeNelian letters and color the picture.
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Apple Picking
Pupils practice reading Dolch words using an apple theme. In this sight word lesson, students play an apple picking game that allows them to practice reading several Dolch words. Pupils play this game frequently to ensure...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency, Letter-Sound Correspondence, Make a Match
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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You Feel Wet!
In this reading worksheet, students learn the sight words for texture: wet, dry, soft, smooth and prickly. Students staple together an 8 page book with an animal theme. Students read and color. In the end of the book, students list...
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Picture And Word Card Matching-- Full Color Cards
In this vocabulary activity, students learn 20 three or four letter sight words and match them to their picture clues. Students cut out 20 each of word and picture cards.
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High Frequency Word Cards- Full Color
In this vocabulary worksheet, students learn to recognize 36 high-frequency words by cutting and laminating these cards. There are no directions here about their use.
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Sense of Sight Lesson
Students sequence what they saw in the book Maisy's Nature Walk. In this sequencing lesson plan, the teacher reads the book and the children listen and observe. Once the book is read, the students have to sequence what Maisy saw on her...
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Monster Fun Learning the Five Senses
Students explore the five senses. In this health lesson, students read the book Brave Little Monster and identify the five senses from the book. Students draw an illustration from the book as a follow-up activity.
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Mother Goose on the Loose: Teaching Reading and Writing in a Way That's Exciting
Students become familiar with the conventions of print as they recognize Mother Goose poems. In this Mother Goose lesson, students follow the words from left to right as they read Mother Goose poems. Students recognize rhyming words and...
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Math, Music and Architecture: Kindergarten Geometry and Aesthetics in Music and Architecture
Learners identify and name different geometrical shapes. In this math lesson, students distinguish odd from even numbers. They describe the properties of 2 and 3 dimensional objects.
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School-Home Links: Reading Common Words
In this reading words worksheet, students practice reading the common words from the list from top to bottom and bottom to top. Students then make flash cards of the words and practice again. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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School-Home Links: Reading Common Words 2
In this reading words worksheet, students practice reading the common words from the list from top to bottom and bottom to top. Students then make flashcards of the words and practice again. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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Vocabulary Lesson (Color Words) Using Various Books by Eric Carle and Internet Sites
Students investigate color words. In this vocabulary, high frequency words, and technology lesson, students visit various websites to practice reading color words. Students listen to Eric Carle books and observe the illustrations,...
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Out of Sight
Students practice becoming a fluent reader by mastering the art of decoding unfamiliar words and sentences. Working with a partner, they read and reread "Froggy Eats Oats," by Jonathan London with a big palm tree, die-cut monkeys and a...
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Shared Reading: A Lesson Plan to Introduce Patriotism in the Classroom
Students learn why we say the Pledge of Allegiance through shared reading. In this shared reading lesson plan, students are shown the Pledge of Allegiance in 3 different forms. While they are exploring the pledge, the teacher explains...