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Letter Writing Accuracy

For Teachers K
Students develop letter writing fluency. In this letter writing instructional activity, students write alphabet letters. Students work individually to develop letter writing automaticity.
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Lesson Plan: A Bird's Tale

For Teachers K - 5th
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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Get into Shape

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Shapes are so fun! Little ones explore, identify, and create shapes using tangrams or pattern blocks. The activity is intended to stimulate critical thinking while engaging learners through play and shape identification. Each child will...
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Check My Writing:Original Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
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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The Mail Race

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create friendly letters and surveys to other schools. In this letter writing lesson, students format friendly letters to other school and request a reply. Students chart the replies on a map and share information from the...
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Tyrone, the Horrible

For Teachers K - 5th
Read a Hans Wilhelm story and complete creative writing activities. Start by reading Tyrone, the Horrible and discuss the behavior in the book. Then split your class into groups to create a "bully" situation and discuss possible...
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Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers

For Teachers K - 6th
Students compose a letter to a family member. In this writing lesson, students listen to the book, Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers and identify the parts of a letter.
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Giving Thanks for Food and Farms

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Sarah Stewart’s The Gardener and Food from Farms by Nancy Dickmann display the importance of community farms. After reading these short picture books, class members draw connections between farms and the food we eat each day. As a...
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Decode and Write Words with More Than One Syllable

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice sounding out multi-syllable words with this scaffolded instructional activity. Learners decode words by segmenting them into phonemes and combining the sounds. Your lines are in bold here, but you can easily use this simply as...
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Tracing the Letter U

For Teachers K - 1st
For this tracing the letter U worksheet, students trace over the dotted lines to practice writing upper and lowercase letter U.
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Letter Writing Accuracy, Air Write

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students work in pairs to play an air writing game. In this air writing lesson plan, students are given a written letter to practice. Students use their finger to write a letter in the air and their partner must try to guess what letter...
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Writing a Political Leader

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students peer edit a letter.  In this editing lesson, students peer edit a letter written to a political figure by another student. Students discuss edits and revisions needed for improvement. This is a continuation lesson that is part...
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Mouse Mess

For Teachers K
Scholars practice rhyming and phonemic awareness using trade books and poetry. They will listen to the book Mouse Mess several times throughout the week, identifying rhyming words, and matching words that begin with the same sound. Then...
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Dear President Obama

For Teachers K - 8th
Students write letters to the president as he begins his term. In this letter writing lesson, students discuss goals they hope the president will consider, and send good wishes to the president and his family. After the letters are...
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My Writing Portfolio

For Teachers K - 3rd
Emerging writers create a portfolio showcasing various writing formats. They discuss Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. They observe the key features of picture books and then create their own book to add to...
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Letter b

For Teachers K - 1st
In this letter b worksheet, students identify the lower case letter b, trace it, and write it. Students practice writing twenty-four b letters.
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Alphabet Letter Y

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this letter Y worksheet, students look at fifteen letters and circle each Y they see and then print the uppercase and lowercase letter Y three times in the boxes provided.
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Alphabet Letter Q

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this handwriting of alphabet letter Q worksheet, young scholars read two short sentences, trace the uppercase and lowercase letter Q once and then write both letters in the four boxes provided.
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Alphabet Letter Y

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this handwriting of alphabet letter Y worksheet, students look at three pictures and then print either an uppercase or lowercase alphabet letter Y in the blank to completer each picture word. Students pronounce and color each...
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Send Lincoln a Letter

For Teachers K - 4th
Students discover the postal service through a letter writing activity.  In this U.S. Government lesson, students read the book Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers, and discover the life history of President Abraham Lincoln.  Students write a letter...
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A Sample Mini-lesson for Teaching Writing Conventions

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars study writing conventions. In this writing conventions lesson plan, students study writing they have already completed and look for conventions they are already using without realizing. In a small group, young scholars...
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Letter Writing Accuracy, Name Tags

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners build writing accuracy by making classroom name tags. For this writing accuracy lesson plan, students review the usage of writing uppercase letters Learners also practice the usage of lowercase letters. Students recall the usage...
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The Art of Persuasion

For Teachers K - 1st
Students write a persuasive letter. In this persuasion lesson, students listen to the story Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School and discuss the vocabulary and parts of a persuasive letter. They write their own letter to...
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Reintroduce /Q/

For Teachers K
Students explore the alphabet by participating in a letter identification activity. In this letter "Q" lesson, students identify the different sounds that can be made by the letter "Q" and words that begin with the letter. Students...

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