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Creating Identity Posters
Learners discover the identities of their classmates. In this tolerance lesson, students create individual posters showcasing their identity, history, and family background. Learners examine the posters to get a better...
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Students practice their reading comprehension while investigating vegetables. In this children's literature lesson, students are read The Tale of Peter Rabbit in class and analyze the concept and themes. Students complete...
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Seuss-Perb Stations
Young scholars practice previously learned skills to the theme of "Dr. Seuss books".
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Remember Our Soldiers
Students talk about and grow in their understanding of the important role our troops play, and the important role citizens play in keeping up our troops' morale. They involve themselves in community service by writing letters for, or...
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Sequencing: Pictures Tell a Story
Students listen to a story and observe five illustrations of the main events drawn by the teacher. They arrange the illustrations in sequential order. Then, working in groups of five, they read stories and select five events, one for...
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Skill Growth
Students explore developing new skills. In this new skills lesson, students identify skills they have mastered, skills they want to work on and realize that all students learn at a different speed.
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Continuing Gandhi's Legacy of Cross-Cultural Understanding: Central Asia and the Middle East
Students investigate the lifestyle of Gandhi by creating a Venn Diagram. In this biographical lesson plan, students compare the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi while discussing their teaching methods....
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Rock N Rhythm & Rhyme
Learners explore rhyming and rhythm. In this rhythm and rhyme lesson, students listen to the song, "A-Hunting We Will Go" and add new verses to the song with words that rhyme. Learners use an interactive tool to create these new verses.
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Drafting
Students use transitions to connect the beginning, middle and end of their writing. In this lesson plan on drafting a story, students use a graphic organizer sandwich to put pictures back together and recognize a specific order.
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Dr. Seuss Comes to the Gym
Demonstrate different motor activities to honor Dr. Seuss's birthday. A literacy-based physical education lesson prompts young readers to perform group activities such as tumbling, jumping rope, throwing frisbees, and hopping....
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Communicate - Without Talking?
Students discuss and define communication and identify different ways of communicating with people. Students then practice team building and non-verbal communication skills as they work silently in small teams to put puzzles together.
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Express Yourself!
Students explore the five main components to reading fluency: faster reading, smoother reading, expressive reading, silent reading and voluntary reading. This lesson plan is designed to help children use expression as they read....
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See, Say, Write and Read
In this simple writing worksheet, students will read and write the words see, girl, and boy. Then students will complete two simple sentences about the boy and girl.
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Fun With Fruit
Following directions and counting skills are foundational for your kindergarteners. On this simple worksheet are pictures of pears, apples, bananas, and oranges for youngsters to count and draw shapes around according to written...
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Polar Express Lesson Plan
Students develop a podcast as they retell the story of The Polar Express. In this early childhood lesson plan, students experience technology by creating a podcast. Students also create illustrations to be scanned for the podcast.
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Mitten Lesson Plan
Learners compare The Mitten by Jan Brett to other versions of the same story, then create their own version. In this early childhood lesson plan, students create their own version of The Mitten, then use software to record a podcast. ...
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Thanks for Your Service
Students thank their freedom fighters. In this Veteran's Day lesson, students honor members of the U.S. Armed Forces by designing a program to pay tribute to them. Students use technology tools to conduct interviews, take pictures, and...
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Literature Analysis
Students examine the attributes of stories. In this literary elements lesson, students discuss the characters, plots, and settings of books they read in class.
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Stackers Game for word fluency
Students create three letter words and decode for fluency and accuracy. In this fluency lesson, students use alphabet tiles to build words with the CVC pattern and read the word aloud. Students alternate turns by stacking one...
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Face to Face with the Great Depression
Students develop an analytical perspective of how historians record, preserve, and interpret data. In this US history lesson students read and interpret personal accounts of the Great Depression. They discuss how interpretation affects...
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MLK: using Nonviolence to Make Positive Change
Students read about Martin Luther King and discuss the rights and responsibilities of citizens. In this Martin Luther King lesson, students recognize the vocabulary words associated with freedom and nonviolence. Students view...
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Mohandas Gandhi: Changing the World One Step at a Time
Students illustrate pages of a book. In this famous historical icon instructional activity, students are read a story about Mohandas Gandhi, illustrate the pages in small groups, assemble a class book to read to younger students,...
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How Are We Different?
Students discuss the differences between boys and girls. In this acceptance instructional activity, students view pictures of boys and girls and use a Venn Diagram to chart their differences. Students discuss boy activities...
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Patricia Polacco, Author and Illustrator
Students conduct Internet research about the studenT author and illustrator Patricia Polacco. They compose letters to Ms. Polacco and, after revising and editing their work, send them in the mail.