Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gandhi's Ashrams and School Sustainability

For Teachers 2nd
Explore philosophy and religion by researching Gandhi. Lead your young students to investigate the life and accomplishments of Mahatma Gandhi by reading the assigned text. Your class will define sustainability and create a sustainable...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Flight Dreams - Folding into Flight

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Combine measurement, following directions, physics, and art with one fun activity. Learners read a set of instruction to create three different kinds of paper airplanes. They measure, fold, and fly the planes, and record data and answer...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Full Esteem Ahead

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young learners who feel good about themselves will fare better in the long run than those who do not have a high level of self-esteem. Introduce youngsters to what it means to like themselves. Discuss positive characteristics and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Guide to Summing It Up

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils are broken into reading groups based on reading ability and rotate one group at a time reading with the teacher at a table. They discuss the function of the Table of Contents and find a story using it and predict what the story is...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

To Tell You in a Nutshell

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils discuss the importance of comprehension and the use of summarization. Through guided practice, they follow six steps in finding and highlighting important information from an article, while deleting information that is not needed....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Beginning Reading Design: A and I are Team Players

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and the /ai/ correspondence. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and spell words containing the /ai/ correspondence using letter manipulatives. Students then...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bein' With You This Way

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Bein' With You This Way. For this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Journey Home: The Active Learner

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discuss focus questions prior to reading and preview the book, "Journey Home." In this language arts activity, small groups present vocabulary words. Students complete after-reading discussion questions and choose writing...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mapping Counties

For Teachers K - 4th
Students practice reading a map. In this mapping lesson, students illustrate a map and compare and contrast the counties based on their population. Students also explore what a census is and read census data on a map. A student...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It's About You

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners explore the U.S. Census and come to understand more about it. For this census lesson, students build reading confidence, explain who is counted in the census, and recognize the connection between census information and community...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mr. Lincoln's Way

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners complete pre reading, writing, and post reading activities for the book Mr. Lincoln's Way. In this guided reading lesson plan, students complete writing, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Label Realities

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify nutritional information on food labels. In this nutrition lesson, 2nd graders bring in food labels from home and practice reading them. Students discuss the nutritional content, such as caloric content. Students...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Botany: How does the rice plant grow in water?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read about how rice grows in water and make a rainstick when they are done. In this rice lesson plan, 2nd graders make a rain stick out of rice, posterboard, scissors, glue, and a cardboard tube.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Letter Home

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders brainstorm a list of jobs that a crew member of the HMS Victory would perform. They participate in a guided reading of the "Sea and Learn" notes about working at sea by writing notes as the listen to text. Next, they write...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading-Author's Purpose

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students review what author's purpose is by understanding that authors either persuade, inform, describe, or entertain with their story. In this language arts lesson plan, students bring in junk mail and in small groups discuss what the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Read a Map ... It's a Snap!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students are introduced to map and globe skills. They use grids and are able to construct their own simple maps of familiar places. Students are able to define a map, globe, and symbol and use the direction words north, south, east,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Swamp Monsters" by Mary Blount Christian

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Using the book Swamp Monsters by Mary Blount Christian, young readers discuss key vocabulary terms and make predictions about swamp monsters. They complete a Cloze activity, explore past-tense verbs, and categorize vocabulary words.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Martin Luther King, Jr. Team Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students sequence the events of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, after first being read a biography. The facts are on strips of paper, which are later glued end to end.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Little Red Hen

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete a reading of The Little Red Hen. In this reading skills lesson, students practice reading the tale The Little Red Hen using the pictures as guides through the story.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teaching Guide: Can You Make a Piggy Giggle?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore the book Can You Make a Piggy Giggle?. In this language arts lesson, students focus on a variety of aspects within the book. Learners study the illustrations, listen for rhymes, and attempt the tongue twisters in the text.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Conflict Resolution Trade-book

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners discover ways of dealing with conflicts at school by reading a guide.  In this psychology instructional activity, students identify how conflicts are started with fellow classmates by reading a trade-book with their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Snake and Sight Word Board Game

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice sight words. Game begins with the first student rolling a die and moving the number of spaces shown on the die. If they lands on a shaded square, he or she turns up a card and reads it aloud.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rainbow Writing with Dolch Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read and decorate three Dolch sight words. In this literacy lesson, students write three Dolch sight words on a paper. They outline the words six times with the color of the rainbow.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Trade a Word

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a game called Trade a Word in order to read Dolch words. In this Dolch words lesson plan, students trade one word for another on index cards.

Other popular searches