Students list habits that can be used to maintain good personal hygiene. They identify hygiene products and explain their uses in maintaining a good self image and personal hygiene habits. This lesson is intended for students acquiring...

Students read various Mercer Mayer books. They discuss the enhancement of family and relationships within the family. Students write a book with their peers about their relationship with a member of their family. They practice their...

Students increase their skills in word attack, fluency, and spelling of words and research and find information on topics from the Internet. They then use the Quick Cam with the computer and will increase cooperative skills in small...

Learners examine the three dimensions of health, wealth, and happiness from both emotional and social perspectives. Among the week-long activities are discussions about good and poor habits, minimizing risks by proper planning and...

Students expand their understanding and appreciation for poetry. In this poetry unit lesson, students complete 5 unit sections of multiple day activities to learn about poetry and its devices or forms.

Third graders write their own haiku poem after a lesson on the history and format of a haiku. In this poetry lesson plan, 3rd graders write a haiku with the correct lines and symbols.

Students explore animal lifestyles by researching their characteristics. In this animal habitat lesson, students read the story Over in the Jungle and analyze the animal illustrations in the book. Students create clay animal characters...

Third graders develop and illustrate an original Haiku poem.

Third graders use vocabulary from "If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon" to play a game.

A lesson plan in which students build words with syllable cards. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students identify a word on a word pyramid based on clues about its syllables and phonemes. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students identify unknown words within a text, identify their parts and syllables, and work to determine the meaning of each word. Materials are included.

A lesson plan for a card game in which students match multi-syllable words according to their root words. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.

This article discusses what grammar first graders need to know including how to count out syllables by clapping, what nouns and verbs are and the differences between them, and basic sentence structure (subject-verb-object).