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Class Bear Book
Students use the story, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" to explore the concept of color, name writing, and text sequencing. A personal page is created for the class Big Bear Book.
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The Purple Cow
Students read and discuss the poem, The Purple Cow. In this poetry lesson plan, students discuss the rhyming words in the poem and why this piece of literature is silly or unusual.
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Nocturnal Animals
In this animal learning exercise, students complete a cloze activity about nocturnal animals by filling in the blanks in 2 paragraphs using 9 words from a word bank. They color and cut out 13 small pictures of nocturnal animals and paste...
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Beginning Matching-- Animals Part 3
In this animal matching worksheet, students draw a line from 8 animal pictures to the word that describes each one. This page contains color pictures.
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The Gray Wolf Story Pyramid
Students explore comprehension and understanding of what they read. They practice using the correct spelling for frequently used sight words and uncommon words. Students apply the correct principles of grammar. They read the article Gray...
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Animal Names
Students match animal pictures with animal words. In this farm animal lesson, students put together the parent and their offspring. Students should have prior knowledge of the basic needs of animals. Students write animal booklets.
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Following Directions 2
In this following directions worksheet, students will read three simple directions to color pictures of animals correctly. Then students will write the name of their favorite animal.
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Read Aloud Lesson Plan: Water for One, Water for Everyone
Pupils listen to a read aloud about African animals as they access a watering hole. They discuss the characteristics of Africa such as the temperature, it distance from the students, and lifestyle of the animals. They talk about how...
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Beginning Reader Book on The Desert
In this Desert book worksheet, students make their own book about animals they see in the desert. Students practice reading the sight words I, see, and a.
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Alphabet Animals: K and L
In this coloring letters activity, students color two letters K and L. Both letters have animal images within the actual letter and make for a vivid reminder about the sound the letter makes and the words associated with them. K has a...
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The Clever Monkey Rides Again
Use a West African folktale to practice several different skills in your first grade classroom. Learners read The Clever Monkey Rides Again and focus on rhyming words, reading comprehension, measurement, art, movement, and word order.
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Matching Games, Trees and Animals
Students identify and define new words as they are introduced to specific trees, leaves, animals and animal habitats, engage in literacy-related play by playing games that focus on animals and trees mentioned in book, A Tree for Me, and...
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I Spy (Camouflaged Animals in Art!)
Make connections about animal characteristics and the animal's environment. For this animal characteristics lesson, students use a piece of art as a springboard for a discussion about animals and camouflage. Students choose an animal...
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Baby Animals
Here is a simple word search that has young learners find and circle ten various baby farm animals. They color in a horse underneath the puzzle.
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Monkey Business
Students practice reading with expression, decoding and word recognition to become fluent readers. They read the book, "Not me!" Said the Monkey," by Cohn West and view drawings of a lion, snake, rhino, elephant and a monkey from the art...
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Last Letter: G, T, and X
In this ending sounds worksheet, 1st graders study the pictures and the first letters for each word. Students then write the last letter for each word on the lines. Students learn the ending sounds of g, t, and x.
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What Colour Are These Animals?
In this science coloring worksheet, students examine 8 drawings of sea creatures. Students color the pictures in a realistic way. This page is from the UK.
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Rainforest Animals
In this coloring worksheet, students will color the rainforest animals. Students will locate each animal within the rainforest and color those that they find.
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Scrambled Animals
In this word scramble learning exercise, students unscramble each animal name and write each name on the line. All the words are animal names that start with the letter 'a.'
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Word Meaning Using Prefixes
Fifth graders use structural analysis to identify root words with prefixes such as dis, sub, re, and pre.
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The Grand Canyon
After reading s short description of the Grand Canyon, readers demonstrate their ability to use context to determine the meaning of words in the passage.
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Animal Flashcards
Print, cut, and color these flashcards! Your young learners will love learning the Spanish words for their favorite animals! There are 24 flashcards included.
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How to Write a Concrete or “Shape” Poem
Writers compose an original shape poem. Scholars choose a subject to write about and create a visual representation by forming a corresponding picture using the poem's words.
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“THE LORAX” by Dr. Seuss
Few children's books convey the message of conservation as well as Dr. Seuss' The Lorax. Read the story aloud, emphasizing the interconnectedness of plants and animals in an ecosystem and discussing different ways people can help the...