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Using Pictures to Promote Conversation
Students initiate and sustain a conversation of three or more exchanges on a topic while exploring a collection of large photographs pertaining to that topic. The teacher creates a comfortable setting and provide a variety of books...
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Chanting
Students use pictures and text to gain meaning from written materials by connecting text. message heard, and/or material viewed to prior knowledge and experiences. Finally, students recognize and name upper and lower case letters and...
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Third graders experience what life was like during era in which "Sarah, Plain and Tall depicts using modern technology.
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Division Cookies
Fifth graders demonstrate the concept of division through sharing concrete objects. They divide cookies into parts and recreate a whole by sharing their pieces with the group. Students request cookies during a small group actvity using I...
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Kindergarten Holocaust Unit
Students determine that we are the same. They discuss that we have differences and realize our differences make us special. They recall the ways in which human beings and Sesame Street characters are alike. They create a second...
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YANG AND THE YOUNGEST AND HIS TERRIBLE EAR
Students perform a web scavenger hunt to find information about the author of the book, YANG THE YOUNGEST AND HIS TERRIBLE EAR. They develop an understanding of how writers use personal experience to add voice to their writing.
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Easter Egg Eggstravaganza
Students identify functions and proper use of the computer. They identify secondary colors by mixing primary colors. Students reinforce listening, speaking and following directions by playing a game. They identify the color gold.
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Vowels, Reading Fluency
Third graders practice identifying words with the short o vowel sound. They use the strategy will reading a page from The Hare and the Tortoise. They read the passage while focusing on increasing their reading fluency and practice...
Read Works
Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Sequence Clue Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach young scholars to identify the sequence of a story by looking at transitional words such as "first" and "then" in the book Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant....
Read Works
Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to use pictures and context clues to discover a missing word and to draw conclusions about a story. Students also use...
Read Works
Read Works: Setting 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use pictures and word clues to determine the setting of fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by Paul...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan
This in-depth lesson, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning.
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Setting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use context clues to identify the setting and changes within it. Lessons are based on the books Bigmama's by Donald Crews and The Stories Julian...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Proper Noun Race
During this lesson, students will review nouns and identify common and proper nouns in context. A short story will be written using both types of nouns. An interactive Internet site will be used to reinforce the lesson.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose Lesson Plan
This lesson, using the animated story "Party Moose" from the series Molly of Denali, shows the importance of paying attention to meaning while reading and using strategies, such as rereading, when something doesn't make sense. Molly and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Learning to Recognize and Use Strong Verbs
In this lesson, young scholars will listen to stories and determine the meaning of the word by using sentence-level context clues. They will think about the verbs that are used and think about how that verb appeals to their senses,...
Other
Hubbard's Cupboard: The Enormous "Kinder" Garden
In this unit from Hubbard's Cupboard, an elementary class will read several books together, each having a strong connection to the next. There are ideas for cross-curricular lessons, so this could be a site that shapes the next several...