Free Reading
Free Reading: The Ship Is Loaded With: A Game Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A fun classroom game that helps students come up with words that rhyme with a word given to them by the teacher. Students sit in a circle, the instructor gives them a sentence and asks what word rhymes with the last word. Students raise...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating Question and Answer Books Through Guided Research
Contains plans for five lessons that develop research skills in primary students by having them create their own question and answer books. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Those Darn Squirrels! Brainstorming Ideas
A silly read-aloud captures the attention of students who must jump right into action applying the engineering design process in an effort to stop the squirrels from eating the birdseed. To complete the brainstorming students will work...
Read Works
Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: Using Details to Create a Title
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Gorillas! by Sarah L. Thomson and In the Wild: Leopards by Stephanie St. Pierreto to teach students how to use textual details to create a title for informational text. Ideas for...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guess What's in the Bag a Language Based Activity
Contains plans for a language activity called "Guess What's in the Bag." Students try to guess the object in a bag in order to develop descriptive language, listening, and problem solving skills. In addition to objectives and standards,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 12: The Little House
This lesson plan introduces learners to cycles and patterns. Students will engage in shared reading. Learners will learn word patterns and repetition in language cycles. Students will learn that time in math and cycles of change in...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: Teach Poetry in Less Than 10 Minutes Per Day
This teaching tool focuses on teaching poetry in less than 10 minutes per day. Turn your students into poetry pros with a quick structured poetry analysis. Focus Poetry is a technique of shared reading that provides multiple...
Read Works
Read Works: "Jose and the Blue Crayons" Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a boy who listened to his teacher during a lesson about "sharing" and then shared a crayon with his classmate. This passage reinforces essential reading...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Buddies Create Power Point Stories
Contains plans for five lessons that ask students to create PowerPoint presentations about shared experiences like field trips or other activities. Students take pictures of what happen, and then explain the sequence of events in words...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Fairy Tales Kindergarten Unit: Fantasy Details
[Free Registration/Login Required] After introducing the concept of fantasy within fairy tales, teachers lead class in finding examples of fantasy elements in the story Little Red Riding Hood. Following this model, students work...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Reports in Kindergarten
Lesson which provides three types of reports for early elementary students to share. These allow young students to see themselves as writers with something useful to contribute from an early age.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Name Bingo
Students will gain a sense of community during this lesson. Students will play School Bingo, engage in the shared reading of Chrysanthemum, and then play Name Bingo with the students' names featured on the Bingo cards.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 04: Chrysanthemum and Letter Tiles
In this instructional activity, students will engage in shared reading with the Kevin Henkes' book, Chrysanthemum. Then students will engage in a letter tiles activity that requires them to compare the length of their own names with the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wqed Education Programs: Clifford the Big Red Dog Programming
This collection of resources has been designed to help teach character development and social-emotional skills to children ages four to seven. Each lesson follows a similar format, in which children can watch (watch video), read (read a...
Utah Education Network
Uen: We Are All Different in Many Ways!
This lesson celebrates students's unique physical and personality traits. After reading and discussing the children's book The Crayon Box That Talked by Shane Derolf and Michael Letzig, students will share create their own artwork that...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Three Meals for Gregory
Lesson begins with a review of the food guide pyramid. The book Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat (not provided through lesson) is read and discussed in light of healthy eating. In groups, young scholars create healthy meals...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "Rules for the Bus" Poetry Theater: A Poem in Two Voices
This activity includes a poem in two voices and is adapted from the poem by Eric Ode in Rolling in the Aisles, published by Meadowbrook Press. Students will share the responsibility of reading lines of this poem about a boy who learns a...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Useful Shapes: Analytical Writing in Primary Math Classrooms
For this lesson, the book entitled The Greedy Triangle, written by Marilyn Burns, is shared. After sharing this read-aloud book, students will illustrate pictures that incorporate the triangle. Then will write three reasons why a...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "The Bus" Poetry Theater: A Poem in 12 Voices
This activity uses the poem entitled "The Bus" and is adapted by Robert Pottle from the collection entitled I'm Allergic to School, published by Meadowbrook Press. Young scholars will share the responsibility of reading lines of this...
CPALMS
Cpalms: From Apple Farm to Market!
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be selecting an apple treat that will be sold at a farm stand. Students will work in small groups to assess different criteria for their choice....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: African Internet Safari
During this lesson, students read and listen to poems about African animals and try to guess which animal is being described. Students will use the information they already know to identify the animals. Students will have the opportunity...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Mexico
In this lesson, students explore Mexico by navigating the Internet and reading a variety of literature. Traditions, holidays, clothing, etc., of Mexico will be compared to American culture. A newsletter creates a way for students to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Jet, Set, Go! Travel Google Earth in Ben's Dream
This lesson uses the picture book by Chris Van Allsburg Ben's Dream with Google Earth to highlight ten major landmarks of the world. After reading and discussing Ben's Dream, students "travel" to each location using the free software...