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Shared and Guided Reading with Ice Cream Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here is a lesson which has students locate an exclamation point and a comma from the text. They locate previously learned words on the page, and create a word map from the word "Money." Students write about and illustrate their favorite...
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Pencil Talk And Other School Poems

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars engage in a lesson to strengthen reading comprehension, the lesson focuses on the skill of making connections of story details and life experiences. The most important aspect of the lesson is for them to develop confidence...
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Guided Reading: Flora's Box

For Teachers K - 1st
Young readers consider text-to-self connections. Learners discover the text-to-self connection as they read Flora's Box by Tina Althaide. They practice high frequency words, prepositions, and 1:1 correspondence.
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Reader's Workshop: Julius

For Teachers 1st
First graders use prior knowledge and reading strategies for the story (Julius).  In this reader's workshop lesson, 1st graders use elbow buddies to discuss parts of the story during guided reading.  Students review reading strategies.
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No is No, Si is Yes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders match the body part words in Spanish to a picture. They receive a picture of a human with lines coming from its feet, hands, and arms. Students use a word bank, to write the Spanish word that corresponds to the picture. ...
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Amelia Earhart: A Biography

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the accomplishments of Amelia Earhart. They read and discuss a biography of Amelia Earhart, complete a Venn diagram, and conduct an interview with a classmate and write and publish a biography of their classmate.
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Genre Study - Grade Three

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders learn to identify different types of literature genres. In this genre lesson plan, 3rd graders complete pre and post- assessment, conduct a genre research activity, and complete the associated worksheets.
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Drafting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students engage in the writing process. In this drafting lesson, students research different types of genres to find which they enjoy reading and writing. They review the drama in a story and discuss different story prompts. 
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Dusty Locks and the Three Bears

For Teachers K
Read this twist on Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Dusty Locks and the Three Bears by Susan Lowell. Kindergartners listen, predict, and discuss the story. They then participate in a dramatization of the story and draw a picture to...
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Bath Time

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students strengthen reading comprehension skills with the guided reading of Bath Time. They practice literacy skills like reading a patterned sentence with the help of the teacher for scaffolding. Students also recognize the sequencing...
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Language Arts: Guided Reading with Fancy Dance

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars participate in a guided reading of Leslie Johnson's, Fancy Dance and discover how to sequence events. This lesson plan stresses word recognition, suffixes and prefixes, and sentence structure. Cross-curricular activities...
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Bedtime Fun

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use picture clues to sound out the beginning of words. They apply this story to them actually going to bed. At the end, students should be able to follow a story line to a conclusion. To engage students, the teacher asks...
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Guided Reading with Here Comes the Bus

For Teachers 2nd
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: My Horse

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars read patterned sentences. In this guided reading lesson, students use one to one matching and picture clues to aid comprehension. Cross-curricular activities are provided.
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A Special Day

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students 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 students to...
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Guided Reading Lesson: Here Comes the Bus

For Teachers K - 1st
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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Guided Reading: Jump Rope

For Teachers K - 1st
Students blend phonemes to decode words. For this guided reading lesson, students evaluate different comprehension strategies to aid reading.  Students make predictions based on picture clues and use patterned sentences to facilitate...
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Pop Pop And Grandpa

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students 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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Can you Top That?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students make connections between their own experiences and the story, "get" the author's message and be able to discuss it with other readers, and apply their reading skills and strategies. They predict what happens in the story,...
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Farm Life During the Great Depression

For Teachers 5th
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

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore U.S. history by researching the Oregon Trail. In this American exploration instructional activity, students read the story On the Shore of the River and define the exact path early settlers took to find the state of...
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Mice Squeak; We Speak

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students create a poster.  In this vocabulary instructional activity, 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...
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Different Strokes for Different Folks

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are taken to the media center to review various genre of literature, apply information and concepts to evaluate examples and locate specific genre, and search for materials for reading enjoyment. A good lesson for genre...
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I Need To Ask You Something

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the story, "I Need to Ask You Something." Students discuss clothing you wear in the summer and winter. After looking at the pictures on the cover, 1st graders explore ways they can help their mom. They use reading...