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Everybody Wears Braids
Students use picture clues, patterned sentences, number words and gain knowledge of what sentences that end with a question mark look like after reading, "Everybody Wears Braids." They connect the title to their lives and make a...
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Language Arts: Guided Reading with Fancy Dance
Students participate in a guided reading of Leslie Johnson's, Fancy Dance and discover how to sequence events. This instructional activity stresses word recognition, suffixes and prefixes, and sentence structure. Cross-curricular...
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The Goat Goes To Town
Students read a book, "The Goat Goes to Town." While reading the story, students predict what they think may happen. A teacher led discussion explores strategies students can use when they see a unfamiliar word. Students answer questions...
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Guided Reading with Here Comes the Bus
Second graders read independently to find out what happens when the bus moves on its route. Students are given strategies to help with words they aren't sure how to read. Students whisper read with a partner on the second reading. As an...
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Guided Reading with Hey! You're Eating my Homework
Students practice vocabulary via a discussion of pets and animals that may have interfered with homework. They view the title of the book, and discuss what might be happening in the picture. Students discuss strategies for reading...
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Guided Reading With Juicy Peach
Students discuss eating and picking peaches and participate in other pre-reading activities before reading the book, Juicy Peach. They read the book independently, but are guided by directive questions from their teacher. A discussion...
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Kama's Lei
Students read a book entitled "Kama's Lei" and "El Lei De Kama." They discuss the meaning of the word "lei" and predict what may happen int he story. Students explore strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. They explore the sequence of...
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Laundry Day
Students read a book entitled, "Laundry Day." They discuss where people do the laundry and what clothes go in the washing machine and dryer. Students predict what may happen in the story. They discuss familiar words and strategies to...
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Mud Tortillas
First graders read a story entitled, "Mud Tortillas." After reviewing the book, 1st graders predict what will happen. They review methods and strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. A Venn diagram is created for students to compare...
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Pop Pop And Grandpa
Learners develop various skills needed to perform the best examples of reading comprehension for the purpose increasing literacy. They make cognitive connections to the sequence of events in the story and make comparisons as events occur.
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Guided Reading with Pran's Week of Adventure
Students participate in pre-reading activities before reading the book, Pran's Week of Adventure. They read the book independently, but are guided by directive questions from their teacher. A discussion follows, as well as repeated...
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Ruby's Whistle
Students investigate the children's book "Ruby's Whistle" in order to practice skills of reading comprehension. They make connections with the text while reading that include sight word recognition, putting together contractions, and...
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Silent Sam
Young scholars engage in a lesson to investigate the children's book Silent Sam and they strengthen the skills reading with expression, concept of print, and recognizing the correct sequence of a story. They practice reading narrative...
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A Special Day
Young scholars participate in a lesson that focuses on the guided reading of, A Special Day while performing correct fluency with the help of picture/ text matching. They read using the patterned sentence repetition, and this helps...
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Guided Reading with Ten Oni Drummers
Second graders read the book, Ten Oni Drummers. Working in guided reading groups, they discuss fantasy as a genre and preview the book. They review word identification strategies and read the book silently. After reading, they confirm...
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Guided Reading with Two Sweet Peas
Second graders read the book, Two Sweet Peas. Working in guided reading groups, they discuss moving, making friends, and the differences between poems and stories. They read the book silently and discuss the importance of being kind and...
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Guided Reading with Where Is My Puppy?
First graders read the book, Where Is My Puppy? Working in guided reading groups, they discuss having a puppy and predict what might occur in the story. After reading the book aloud, they retell the story and locate the puppy on each page.
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All Kinds of Books
Students engage in a variety of book making activities to foster creativity, literacy, and fine-motor skills. In this book-making lesson plan, students author a book about the days of the week, illustrating the activities that they...
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Farm Life During the Great Depression
Fifth graders examine the plight of farmers during the Great Depression. In this Nebraska history lesson, 5th graders discuss the era prior to reading the novel Out of the Dust by Karen Heese.
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Discovering the Oregon Trail
Students explore U.S. history by researching the Oregon Trail. In this American exploration lesson, students read the story On the Shore of the River and define the exact path early settlers took to find the state of Oregon. Students...
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Mice Squeak; We Speak
Students create a poster. In this vocabulary lesson, students use vocabulary words such as squeak, creak, squeal, squawk and quack to identify the sounds and noises of each word. Students come up with rhyming words and create a word...
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Guided Reading: Family Picnic
Students blend phonemes. In this guided reading lesson, students create words by blending isolated phonemes. Students read a book discussing families.
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Batter Up
Students explore personal achievement by reading a children's book. In this story analysis lesson, students read the book Batter Up, by Sue Muller Hacking and discuss the main character in the story and the actions that she takes to meet...
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Guided Reading Lesson: Here Comes the Bus
Learners discover basic concepts of print. For this early literacy lesson, students discover basic high frequency words. Learners make predictions as they read. Cross-curricular activities provided.
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