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Theatre Lesson Plan, Performing a Story

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the story, The Bundle of Sticks, and discuss the story elements within the story; setting, plot, conflict resolution.  For this readers theater lesson, 2nd graders reenact the story in small...
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Physical Education Lesson Plan: Fortune Cookies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate movement.  In this physical education lesson, students select a "fortune cookie" made from crumpled paper and read the directions inside.  Students perform locomotor skills by following the oral directions...
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Jalapeno Bagels

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read the story Jalapeno Bagels and then write a summary about it. In this summary lesson plan, students retell the story as if someone else has not read the story.
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Personality Plus

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create "Personality Box" and present to classmates using specific speaking skills.
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Working With Writing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research a topic of their choice using the internet, magazines, and books. In this research lesson plan, 5th graders are graded on their research and delivery skills of their presentation.
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Always Allow Alliteration (part 1)

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify letters and sound that are being alliterated in a text they are given. In this alliteration worksheet, students also create alliteration in words and sentences.
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What Makes A Good Speaker?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students write a response to a diagnostic assessment determining what they need to work on to become good public speakers. They listen to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech, I Have A Dream, and identify what makes a good speaker.
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All Aboard! All Aboard! The Essay Train

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders enjoy a train ride with The Little Engine That Could and discover how to create a five-paragraph essay train. This clever instructional activity has students use each boxcar of the train as a template for a paragraph.
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Eloquent Speech

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover that oral and written communication can be improved, and made to sound more eloquent, when the following questions are addressed; Who? What? Where? When? Why? students use word processing to copy a poem using clip...
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Family Cookbook

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, in groups, produce a Family Cookbook by bringing recipes from home.
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Who Needs a Dress Code?

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners create a poster showing examples of appropriate and inappropriate student grooming and attire. They write comments explaining the need for each rule.
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Adopt a Manatee

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a writing activity about manatees and use e-mail to contact representatives about important issues. This would be a very exciting, and meaningful lesson for a first grade writer!
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Flat Stanley Guided Reading

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to their teacher read the book, "Flat Stanley". They relate the activities in the book to activities in their own life. They can also create their own pictures of Stanley.
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Understanding and Writing Fables

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review with the teacher the characteristics for a fable and what it is. They read one paragraph each from the story, "The Fox and the Stork" aloud. They then answer comprehension questions aloud. Next, they listen to four...
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Fiction and Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars explore fictional text and poetry. They explore the story structures used in the types of texts and examine the language patterns used. Students practice tracking text in the correct manner.
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Halloween Comic Strips

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a lesson on the subject of creating comic strips. They create facial expressions in drawings for practice and gradually progress to making their own comic strips based on the holiday of Halloween. The...
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Got the Giggles

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars identify the grapheme and phoneme for G. They practice writing the letter G and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /g/. They associate the phoneme /g/ with its letter representation and identify it in...
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Comparison Contrast Essay

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students compare and contrast the experience of the migrant worker as depicted in The Grapes of Wrath with the experiences of migrant children as depicted in the narratives and poems provided.
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Musicians and Vampires

For Teachers K - 4th
Students practice techniques and strategies for understanding the parts of a story to help them remember what they've read. They review and analyze the elements of a story and how to find them first in a paragraph and then in a book.
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Xx is in Six

For Students K - 2nd
In this printing activity, students form the upper and lowercase letter Xx. Students also color in a picture of an ox pulling a wagon.
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Xx is in Six

For Students K - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students learn to print both upper and lower case letter Xx. Students trace several examples before forming their own letters in the unlined boxes.
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Job Talk

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write about a job. In this careers and communication activity, the teacher explains how stories are structured, then students choose a career to research and present the information to the class.
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Stories of Our Lives!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pupils write their own books based on a life experience that they have had. In this life experiences lesson plan, students practice the writing process along with illustrating their book.
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My Owl Babies Miss Momma

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars investigate the relationship between children and parents by reading a book about owls.  In this story analysis lesson, students read the book Owl Babies and participate in a role play based on one of the characters....

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