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I Grow

For Teachers K
Students describe factors that influence relationships with family and friends. They write a book about themselves using personal knowledge.
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What's Safe?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars identify safe and unsafe activities. They identify what is allowed when their parents are home and when they are not. They complete a worksheet and discuss the different activities.
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Home Alone Role Play

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss why it is important to be safe while they are home alone. They decide if decisions made in skits they watch were good or bad. They even create their own role plays.
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"The Bridge"

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners read poem, "The Bridge," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, discuss how they are connected to other human beings, both past and present, and create time capsules including their favorite memorabilia.
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The Rhythm of Life - Episode 2 - Melody

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students complete a unit on melodies from various cultures. They watch an online program, analyze various melodies, write a short original melody, complete a worksheet, and compare/contrast three versions of "Amazing Grace."
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Reading and the Appreciation of Style

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to hurricanes by answering questions. They practice using new vocabulary words. They work together in pairs to compare the words used in different levels of the text.
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Telling Time Through the Zodiac

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare the Chinese and Western zodiacs, their symbols, their meanings, and their calendars through a in-class discussion and a small group project. This lesson includes vocabulary and extensions.
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NCTA Lesson Plan on China

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students identify China's geography, especially arable land, rainfall, crop growing areas, rivers, and mountains. Students select a technological advance to draw a diagram of the particular advance make transparencies of the diagram,...
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Bovine Oversteps Boundaries

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen to story of Grady, the Silo Cow, review vocabulary in story, look at newspaper headlines and discuss purpose of headlines, determine what makes a good headline, create three headlines of their own for story of Grady, and...
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Feelings On Japanese Internment

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars listen to the story, "The Bracelet" and evaluate with other class members right and wrong actions. They create a watercolor painting that describes how the book made them feel and discuss their feelings with the rest of...
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Portraits from Nature

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars discuss and identify the elements of a quilted portrait. As a class, they demonstrate making the templates needed for the activity. They take notes on how to complete the activity and discuss finishing options for the...
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Missing Vowels

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students fill in the blanks with the missing vowels and write sentences using the words. They then examine how to identify words, spell them correctly, and write sentences using them.
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Which One Doesn't Belong?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen to directions to find the word that doesn't belong in a group of words. They then receive a list of twenty words and choose the word that doesn't belong in the group independently.
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Understanding Flashback

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the definition of "flashback" in that writers use it when they want to reveal to readers something that happened in the past. Then Students write a short story using a flashback scene and then move back to the...
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Edgar Allan Poe and Anna Katherine Green

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students go over the summary of the story by Edgar Allan Poe and answer questions to predict what they think happens in the story. They then read the story, read the summary of Anna Katherine Green's story and do the same. They finally...
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The Group Essay

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners write an essay of comparison between two works they have studied but have not yet compared. They recognize similarities of themes between two very different works. They submit a group evaluation form.
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Think & Learn As You Go!!!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students examine a KWL chart as a tool to generate questions about reading texts. They fill in a KWL chart for the beginning, middle, and end of a book before reading portions of the book. Next, they finish the book, complete the KWL,...
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Visions of Pigs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the importance of silent reading before practicing the technique of visualization. They listen while the teacher leads they through a visualization exercise in which they imagine they are at the beach. Next, they...
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Racing to Read!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete a variety of activities to improve their reading fluency. They listen to the teacher do a book walk for the book "Jane and Babe," and observe the teacher modeling how to read quickly. In pairs they take turns timing...
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The Iddy Biddy Igloo

For Teachers K
Students identify and recognize the short vowel /i/ in spoken and written words. They identify the short /i/ sound and its letter symbol. They say a tongue twister emphasizing the short /i/ sound, and identify the words with /i/ in the...
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Apple

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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Picture It!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars participate in visualization exercises as a reading comprehension strategy. As the teacher reads a poem, the students visualize the setting, then read the poem "Daddy's Making Dinner" and create a drawing of what they...
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Ouch! I have a booboo

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /u/ spelled ou from the short vowel /u/ spelled u. Students associate the phoneme with its letter...
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Sonnet

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students research and read other sonnets. They discuss the the history and significance of meter and rhythm in poetry. Students demonstrate the ability to write a poem using the format of a sonnet.

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