Peace Corps
Community
What is a community? Find out with a activity that sheds light onto the different types of communities—school, local, and global. Scholars read informational text detailing the life of a young girl from Cape Verde and take part in a...
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Guided Reading Lesson: Here Comes the Bus
Students discover basic concepts of print. In this early literacy lesson, students discover basic high frequency words. Students make predictions as they read. Cross-curricular activities provided.
American Federation of Teachers
Planning for the First Day of School Worksheet
Ease your back to school anxiety with this first day of school planning template. The included table helps you to plan a Student Welcome, Room Introduction, Student Introduction, and all other crucial topics that need to be covered on...
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Que Llueva! It's Raining, It's Pouring!
Students learn to sing a song in another language. In this music activity, students learn a song about rain in English and Spanish. Students listen to the song Que Llueva in Spanish and It's Raining, It's Pouring in English,...
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I've Been Working in the Neighborhood
Students explore community helpers. For this social studies lesson, students research a variety of community helpers. Students choose a community helper and explain why they would want to spend a day helping that worker.
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Click it! See it! Say it!
Scholars take digital photographs of a phonic cluster. Each child will use their digital pictures in a PowerPoint slide with text showing the sound and the word that contains that sound. Then they will take a picture of the object they...
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Red Gets Fed
Learners practice with the strategy that letters represent phonemes and spellings map out phonemes in spoken words. They work on the phoneme sounds of /a/ and e=/e/ in correspondences with reading. Each student also recites the tongue...
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Listen Up!
Young scholars explore the short /e/ sound. They practice writing the letter 'e' and making the short /e/ sound. They recite an 'e' tongue twister and practice finding the short /e/ sound in spoken words. They identify pictures of...