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. For 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...

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...

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

Dorothy the fish  and Elmo talk to several children about wild animals. Each child tells her about a wild animal and then shows her what that animal does. They depict a lion, an elephant, and a monkey. What a great way to warm up your...

Learners participate in a variety of emergent and early-literacy activities based on a "friendship" theme. Students 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....

Youngsters get a taste for research as they explore animal characteristics. Following a class study on animals, scholars choose one they would like to know more about. Use your school's library program to help introduce learners to the...