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Retelling The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students retell the story The Three Little Pigs.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students listen to the story of The Three Little Pigs and discuss the main events of the story. Students prepare a skit of one of the major...
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Piggy Tale Election

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate democracy by reading The Three Little Pigs.  In this government lesson, 2nd graders discover ways laws are changed or enacted by holding their own election in class.  Students compare the Big Bad Wolf...
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Comparing Tales through Performance

For Teachers K - 4th
Students compare and contrast versions of The Three Little Pigs. In this fairy tale lesson, students read 3 versions of the fairy tale and dramatize them in order to analyze the similarities and differences.
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The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice moving safely through a large area (i.e., without bumping into others).
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Recognizing High and Low Pitch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students distinguish a high pitch from a low pitch, and demonstrate high/low pitch recognition by creating contrasting movements to high and low music, and use instruments to represent the characters in The Three Little Pigs.
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Learning the Component and Information Found in the Newspaper

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work in a group to identify and reference the index, front page, metro page, state and local pages, as well as the sports, comics and classifieds in the newspaper 90% of the time during the game of "Identifying and...
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Acting on the Farm

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are assigned reading and acting parts by drawing out pieces of paper with an animal. They find their group by making the sound of the animal once everyone has drawn a paper. They then read and choose parts within their...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a play to work on seeing events from a different perspective. Some of them are reporters, some cameramen and women, and others are interviewed. They put themselves in the shoes of the people in the book...