Animal Friends

Animal friends and families help your 1st graders with their ELD and literacy skills in three Houghton-Mifflin stories ("The Secret Code," Bud's Day Out," and "An Egg Is An Egg, or, Who's in a Family?"). They can practice drawing...

Students complete pre reading, writing, post reading activities for the book Animal Pals. In this guided reading lesson plan, students complete writing, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.

Reinforce grammar knowledge with a worksheet featuring 10 sentences all about animals. Scholars read each sentence and separate it by drawing a line between the subject and predicate.   

Intended for use with the story of The Three Little Pigs, this resource offers special-needs individuals an opportunity to boost verbal skills and word recognition. Each page includes both words and vivid images to enhance the learning...

Why are farm animals important to the community? Expand young farmers' knowledge of furry and feathered friends through stories and a video. There are several books recommended; however, you could use any book about farm animals. A video...

Enhance language proficiency with a Special Friends themed English language development unit. Each lesson follows a listen, speak, move, and/or look routine that is guaranteed to get your scholars discussing topics such as animal...

Learners pretend to be animals. In this animal identification lesson, students have an animal card pinned to their shirt where only they can see what their animal is. Learners act like their animal and search for others that have their...

Kids love making animal sounds, and they love Elmo! Dorothy the fish and Elmo talk to several children about wild animals. Each child tells Dorothy about a wild animal and then shows her what that animal does. They depict a lion, an...

Learners participate in a variety of emergent and early-literacy activities based on a "friendship" theme. Learners listen to the book Do You Want to Be My Friend by Eric Carle, then echo read, choral read, and independently read...

Young farmers explore the world of farm animals. They are introduced to a variety of animals, what their role is, how many legs they have, and what sounds they make. Worksheets and websites embedded in the plan are used to carry it out....