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Thanksgiving Friends
Students listen to teacher read alouds of books that include facts about Thanksgiving. They discuss what they are thankful for and share this discussion with another class through e-mail.
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'P' Is for Poetry
Students write rhymes for each letter of the alphabet. In this rhyming lesson plan, students come up with various words that could rhyme for each letter. Once they come up with rhymes for each, they publish them in a book along with...
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Name Games
Students develop a sense of self. They complete several activities involving their name. They disuss what names are useful for safety purposes.
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Where is Flat Stanley?
Young scholars create a story map of the basic elements and significant events of the book Flat Stanley. Students brainstorm places they would like to visit if they had been flattened and then, write about an imagined experience. Young...
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Investigating Tropical Birds
Students investigate tropical birds. They write letters for rain forest preservation to protect tropical birds. They interview a bird professional from a local bird store or a zoo and discuss how to take care of a parrot. They use Kid...
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The Mitten
Students listen to the story The Mitten, and visit a website about the story's author. Students create masks of the animals from the story and present a play of the story.
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Alphabet Review Activities
Students practice the alphabet using a variety of songs, books and activities.
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Under Construction
Young readers examine the elements of story structure that are included in all stories. They include these elements in their own written pieces. This phenomenally-designed plan has everything you need to easily implement it in your...
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Segmenting and Blending Words
Students listen to words, then segment them into sounds, and hear sounds and blend them into words.
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What's This Number?
Students practice the correct way to write numbers. In this language arts and math activity, kindergarten students not only practice their number formations, but they also practice holding their pencil in the correct manner.
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Chrysanthemum Sound Boards
Students listen and match sounds such as rhyming, beginning, ending and vowel sounds to build phonemic awareness.
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Plant Detectives
Exploration of the school grounds and thought images are used to demonstrate the many uses of plants.
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Identify and Create Rhyming Words
Students discuss rhyming word families and read stories that present those families in rhyme. They generate rhyming words, manipulate sentence strips to pair rhymes and sort pictures of rhyming words.
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Altering Text Size, Color, and Font
Students explore computer text. In this word processing and computer lesson, students practice changing color, font, and the size of their text with guided instruction from the teacher.
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Read Write Think: Beginning Writers Compare E Mail With Letter Writing
Contains plans for three lessons that teach younger learners the differences between letter writing and e-mail writing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
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Read Write Think: Reading/writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
Young scholars will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
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Read Write Think: Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
Contains plans for five cross-curricular lessons that teach about geography, reading, and writing by having students send postcards to relatives and asking them to send postcards back. In addition to objectives and standards, this...