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Economics: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
First graders explore the idea of an economy by reading a children's story. In this consumerism lesson plan, 1st graders read the story If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and discuss goods provided by people in a community. Students create...
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Replace a Word
Students read Dolch words and use them in their own sentences. In this sight words lesson plan, students read sentences from their teacher and identify the Dolch words needed to complete the sentences from a list. Students then write...
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Pronoun Party
Learners collect pronouns to replace nouns in sentences together and on paper. Students review nouns with each other. Learners identify the pronouns in a variety of sentences provided by the teacher. The Pronoun Party continues.
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The All About Me Poster
Young scholars discover the literary genre of biographies. In this creative writing lesson, students write about their own life experiences and personal stories. Young scholars create a poster about their lives, a biographical collage.
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The All About Me Poster
Students write about themselves and create a poster to illustrate who they are.
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More Magic E
In this phonics worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 16 words with the letter "e". Students then write 16 sentences using each of the silent "e" words they created.
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E the Super Magician
In this silent "e" worksheet, students fill in the letter blanks in 20 words with the letter "e" and then write sentences featuring the 20 words they created.
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The Daily News
Students complete a news writing activity and improve their writing skills. For this news writing lesson, students write about an activity they experience each day of the week. Students use the articles to make a newspaper about their year.
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My Days Book
In this days of the week learning exercise, students cut out, color and assemble a mini personal book on the seven days of the week. Student complete each sentence with what they like to do on each day of the week.
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Discriminating Phonemes
Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice identifying the...
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Describing Words
First graders brainstorm adjectives, recognize adjectives within text read by teacher, identify sentences that contain adjectives using Hyperstudio stack, and write two descriptive sentences for abstract image they create.
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Word Families 'eep'
In this word families worksheet, students create eight different words that contain the letters "eep." Students also choose words from the "eep" family to complete each of the 8 sentences.
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Wanted Poster
Students examine a fairy tale character of their choice in great detail. They create a wanted poster that includes the following: a picture of the character, a written description of his/her appearance, a reward amount, and reasonthe...
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Dinosaurs: "If I had a Dinosaur"
First graders analyze what it would be like to own a dinosaur. In this dinosaur writing lesson, 1st graders review knowledge and key terms about dinosaurs in order to complete a one paragraph creative writing assignment. Students compile...
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Math Word Problems
After reading The Mitten by Jan Brett, youngsters willuse the characters in the story to write word problems for addition and subtraction. For example, they may state that a rabbit had 7 carrots and then lost 2, how many were left? There...
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Making Cranberry Bread
While the preparation for this lesson is extensive, the results are well worth the effort. Prior to the lesson, Xerox the pictures from Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin, collect the ingredients for Cranberry Bread, and...
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Community Helpers
The book, Doctor Ted is used to kick off this instructional activity on Community Helpers. Young learners make connections to their own life by dictating a story of their own, and inventing other jobs that Ted can do.
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Bunny Writing
First graders word process imaginative stories about rabbits to put into individual booklets to take home.
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Reduce Reuse Recycle
Students discover methods that can save the planet by recycling. In this sustainable planet lesson, students read The Berenstein Bears Don't Pollute Anymore, and practice memorizing the 3 R's. Students write commitment letters...
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What's So Good About Popcorn?
First graders use a thinking map to organize a paragraph. They write and edit their paragraph about popcorn and type the final copy on the computer.
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Service Project
Learners participate in a service project. For this community service lesson, students use their special talents to help others. Learners draw or write about the service they've provided. The class turns this into a class book.
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Thanksgiving History
First graders decode Thanksgiving vocabulary while learning about the history of this holiday. In this Thanksgiving history lesson, 1st graders listen to a story, trace their hands to make turkey feathers and listen to a turkey poem. ...