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Writing a Letter to a Friend
First graders practice their letter writing skills by writing to a fictional character. In this formal writing lesson, 1st graders read the books The Jolly Postman and Frog and Toad are Friends to examine the different parts of a...
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Lesson Plan: A Bird's Tale
Who wouldn't love to get a letter from a blue bird? Elementary art enthusiasts analyze the social and historical context of Ason Yellowhair's Navajo piece, Bird and Cornstalk Rug. They examine the construction and images on the rug...
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Check My Writing:Original Lesson Plan
Students learn to check and evaluate their letter writing skills using a checklist created during interactive writing sessions. The lesson provides students with criteria for good letter writing and serves as an evaluation tool for...
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Creative Writing Prompts For Every Season and Month
Winter, spring, summer, and fall! Every season is covered in a 14-page list of writing prompts. Included are story starters, reflection questions, poetry topics, and more.
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Writing to a Specific Topic
After a class discussion where learners make predictions about what will happen in a book based on its cover illustration, pupils are asked to compose a written response about an aspect of the story and include some of their own...
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My Name Is...
First graders write four simple sentences about themselves. In this simple sentences lesson plan, learners insert a picture of themselves into Microsoft Word. Everyone writes four simple sentences about themselves. These pictures and...
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Alphabet Letter B
In this online interactive worksheet, learners form the uppercase and lowercase alphabet letter B with their mouse. Students trace and write the uppercase and lowercase letter B 10 times each.
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Pirate Ship Handwriting Worksheet
In this online interactive writing worksheet, students personalize the letters to the words pirate ship and then print off their worksheets. Students trace the letters they chose and then write the words on the line provided.
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Handwriting Worksheet
For this online handwriting worksheet, students personalize the letters that spell pepper and then print off their worksheets. Students trace the letters in the word pepper. Students write the word pepper on the line provided.
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Dear Peter Rabbit
Write dear old Peter Rabbit a letter with this lesson. First, youngsters listen to the story Peter Rabbit and analyze the story elements. Then they complete a story map graphic organizer in order to write a letter to Peter Rabbit using...
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S is for Stork
In this alphabet letter S online interactive worksheet, students trace the uppercase and lowercase letter S with their cursor. Students trace the uppercase and lowercase alphabet letter S 8 times and write the letters 10 times on their...
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A is for Arm
In this online interactive worksheet, students form the letter A with their mouse and curser. Students trace and write the uppercase and lowercase alphabet letter A 10 times a piece.
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S is for Swing
In this alphabet online interactive worksheet, students trace the uppercase and lowercase letter S with their mouse. Students trace the uppercase and lowercase alphabet letter S 8 times and write each letter 10 times on their own on the...
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T is for T (ASL)
In this letter T online interactive worksheet, students trace the letter S with their mouse. Students trace the uppercase and lowercase letter T 8 times and then write each letter 10 times on their own on the lines provided.
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T is for Tie
For this alphabet letter T online interactive worksheet, students trace the letters T with their mouse. Students trace the uppercase and lowercase letter T 8 times and then write each letter 10 times on their own on the lines provided.
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T is for Tiger
In this letter T online interactive worksheet, students trace the letters T with their mouse. Students trace the uppercase and lowercase letter T 8 times each and then write each letter 10 times a piece on their own on the lines provided.
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Interactive Writing
First graders write about vehicles that float using the interactive writing procedure.
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School Handwriting Worksheet
In this online handwriting worksheet, students personalize the letters that spell school and then print off their worksheets. Students trace the letters to the word school and then write the word school on the lines provided.
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Handwriting Worksheet
In this online handwriting worksheet, students customize the letters to the two words eighteen wheels and then print off their worksheet. Students trace the letters and then hand-write the two words on the lines provided on their own.
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Career Education for Early Elementary Grades
It's never too early to connect children with the real world meaning of their work. A series of four one-hour sessions, plus a field trip, make up this unit on college and career readiness for first and second graders. After viewing a...
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Giving Things a Name
Students label images seen on an interactive website. For this early writing lesson, students do their best to write the name of the object seen on the screen.
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Phil's Garden of Good
Young scholars read "The Rainbow Fish" and discuss how the fish benefited by giving others. In this sharing lesson, students prepare plants and letters for senior citizens. Young scholars present their letters and plants at a visit to a...
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Go, Johnny, Go!
Learners become familiar with the story of Johnny Appleseed by reading, singing and creating a Johnny Appleseed hat. For this Johnny Appleseed lesson, students understand that Johnny Appleseed was a philanthropist and gave unselfishly of...