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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Miss Nelson Is Missing [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Harry Allard, Miss Nelson is Missing, is provided on these pages. Seven character roles are needed in this activity.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Diane Stanley's children's book, Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: "The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken" [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Helen Lester's early childhood book, The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Giving Tree [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reader's theater script for Shel Silverstein's narrative poem, The Giving Tree, is provided on these pages. Thirteen character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Dentist [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for The Dentist, is provided on these pages. Two character roles are needed in this activity.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Snowballs [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater adaptation of Lois Ehlert's early childhood book, Snowballs, is provided on this script. Nine character roles are needed in this performance.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Puppies for Sale [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater adaptation of the early childhood book, Puppies for Sale, is provided on this script. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
Unit Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Senses

For Students K - 1st
In the following activities students can learn about the basic characteristics and structures of the brain, skull and sensory system; investigate sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch; and discover how the brain and the senses are...
Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Switch the Sound Activity, Phoneme Substitution

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A classroom activity to help the student determine what is different about a one syllable word. The teacher says a word, then changes one sound in the word, and asks the learners what is different.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Graph the Sounds: Oral Segmentation Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group activity. Each group receives a Graph the Sound page (link included on site). The teacher holds up a picture and the group must graph each sound they hear when they pronounce the word.
Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
Website
Other

National Foundation for Educational Research

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Offers an impressive collection of educational research publications and practical guides across a wide range of subject areas.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Camp Paws and Claws: Pets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This multi-day series of lessons will engage students in reading and listenting comprehension strategies related to books about animals. Students will retell, dramatize, and illustrate their new animal knowledge.
Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Luisa Builds a Model"

For Students K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] These paired texts "Kareem's Playdate" and "Luisa Builds a Model" both have representations of physical space. A reading comprehension question set for each separately, a set for the two together, and...
Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Cats Need Care by Rachelle Kreisman

For Students K
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage provides tips on how to take care of cats followed by a comprehension question set. A vocabulary worksheet for the word "fur" is also provided.
Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Bam! Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card.
Unit Plan
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Skip Counting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A definition of skip counting followed by interactive examples and links to exercises that will help your skip-counting skills. Learn to skip count by 2, by 3, by 4, by 5, and by 10, and challenge yourself with backwards skip counting.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Indian Ocean: What Kind of Natural Forces Do We Recognize?

For Students K - 1st
Learn about forces (push or pull), gravity, and friction in this module by training dolphins.
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Other

National Center on Intensive Intervention: Identify and Sort Common Objects

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This individual or small group activity helps teach the common core standard of sorting common objects into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. Materials and detailed instructions are included.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Asthma Tips for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use these tips to help kids understand asthma in this guide from Arthur: "Buster's Breathless."
eBook
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Buster's Breathless

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This read-aloud story is based on the Arthur episode "Buster's Breathless." As you read, pause to talk about the characters and what's happening in the story.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Magnets!

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about magnets, magnetic forces, and how magnets make things move.
Lesson Plan
Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Native Americans and the Natural World

For Teachers K - 1st
Explore the rich cultures of Native Americans through literature, storytelling, and fun, hands-on activities. Students will gain an understanding of how and where Native Americans lived in the past and today, as well as their...