Students practice reading and writing using a short poem and information about kites. In this kite poem lesson plan, students read and write using a common poem. This lesson plan includes practice with reading, rhyming, handwriting,...

Go fly a kite! Young grammarians find the nouns in a selection of words that make up an illustration of a kite. Once the nouns are colored red, the kite is easy to see!

A passage from Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner is the text for a cloze reading activity designed to determine the comprehension skills of class members. The resource includes the instructional activity, an answer key, and step-by-step...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a comet? Learn about the mysterious light that appears in the sky one night with a short reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.

Young scholars research and report on aspects of kites including: history, types, building and flying kites. They use Inspiration Software as a graphic organizer. They use gathered research to complete informational booklets.

Students calculate the area of different polygons. In this geometry lesson plan, students find the area for trapezoids, rhombuses and kites.

Students review the /i/ sound before studying the i_e=/I/ correspondence. They listen for the /I/ sound in word pairs, make words in letterboxes, and recognize the silent e. Next, working in pairs, they read "Kite Day at Pine Lake." As...

Kids will get a kick out of this kooky Letter K activity! With pictures of a kite, king, keys, and kangaroo, kids practice printing their uppercase and lowercase K's in guided dotted letters and on the dotted line. The instructions on...

Speed read with your third, fourth, and fifth graders. Learners pair up and work together to improve their oral fluency. Use the technique of covering up unknown words to isolate the vowel and decode the word. There's a sheet included to...

Students identify the number of diagonals for each polygon. In this geometry lesson plan, students identify the polygons based on their diagonals and the way it intersect. They create visuals using the navigator to see the changes in the...

Students practice writing their names and print it in bold color ona piece of paper which is taped to a kite. They watch their names flying in the sky while running with their kites.

First graders review i_e = /I/ and examine the i_e = /I/ correspondence by spelling and reading words. They make words using letterboxes while following a teacher led lesson. They complete a worksheet and read "Kite Day at Pine Lake."...

While many often associate Ben Franklin with his kite electricity experiments, budding historians find out he contributed much more. They discover Franklin's political savvy by examining primary sources in the informative installment of...

Students explore the long /I/ sound as it is used in 'i_e' words. They recite a long /I/ tongue twister and use letterboxes to practice spelling 'i_e' words. In groups, they read a book with several long /I/ words and identify pictures...

Students recognize the phoneme /k/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /k/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /k/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme...

In this printing learning exercise, learners form upper and lowercase letter K. Students also color in pictures that begin with the letter.

In this printing practice worksheet, students follow the dotted lines to form the letters K and k. They print two rows of each. They can see an animation of how to form each letter if they look at the worksheet online before printing it...

Tenth graders experiment with gravity and air pressure. In this geometry lesson, 10th graders build their own kits and fly it. They investigate the questions: what keeps a kite in the air and what are some important factors when flying a...

The history of aerodynamics is rich with experimentation and international collaboration. Author Joyce Bryant relays this dynamic past and provides math word problems using the formula of lift, the force that makes airplanes fly. She...

Students practice reading with fluency and accuracy, as well as remembering what they have read in order to interpret the meaning of the text. They read a story several times to become fluent reading faster each time read. Finally,...

Learners identify properties of parallelograms. In this geometry lesson, students label polygons as parallelogram or not. They define and label the properties of a kite.

Young scholars become fluent readers by decoding words and practicing mastery of phoneme correspondences. They also practice repeated readings of texts along with timed readings of the book, "Pat's Jam." Each student interacts with a...

Students recognize the letter combination i_e by reading and spelling words with letter boxes in this lesson. They say a tongue twister which emphasizes the long /i/ silent /e/ combination. They then listen the story "Kite Day at Pine...

Students review the cover-up and crosscheck method of reading words before practicing rereading to become more fluent readers. They listen as the teacher reads both with and without fluency to determine which is easier to understand....