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Hunting and Gathering in the African Rain Forest
Students demonstrate their knowledge of the Mbuti people hunting and gathering in the African rain forest by writing a story about a Mbuti hunting or gathering food.
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Spelling and Thinking/ Short a
Students participate in a lesson that is concerned with the usage of spelling words that has the short "a" sound. They read the words in list form. Students also write the words in the "an" and "ad" word families.
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Slinky Scaly Snakes
Students examine the sound of the letter S and write the upper case S. As a class, they repeat a tongue twister with the letter S, then observe and demonstrate how to write the letter S. Students then view a variety of objects and...
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The Crying Baby says Waa! Waa!
Students practice identifying and writing the letter "a." They say a tongue twister and identify the words with short letter "a" sounds. They then listen to the teacher read "A Cat Nap" and identify the words that have the "a" sound. ...
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Red Fish-Blue Fish Make a Wish
Students to read and pronounce words correctly. They investigate the letters that stand for phonemes so that spellings map out the phoneme sequence in spoken words. Students attach sounds to appropriate letters. They have some sounds...
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A Baby is Crying...Aaa!
Young scholars explore phonemes. They discuss the phoneme /a/ (short a). Students read and write words containing the phoneme /a/. They identify /a/ in written and spoken words. Young scholars recognize the letter symbol for /a/ and find...
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The B Beat
Students recognize letter b in print and respective phoneme /b/ in spoken words, such as tongue twisters. Students then listen for phoneme in spoken words, and practice writing letter b.
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AAAAAAAAAAA! Stop Crying!
Students practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken words. They interact with the book, "A Cat's Nap," and a poster with Abby and Allen on it that are asking animals for apples, and cards with words on them like at, mad, went, bag,...
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Boo.....AAAaaaa!!!
Young scholars complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter A. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the word containing the short /a/...
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Creaky Door E
Students recognize the short vowel "E" in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and fill in the...
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A Punch in the Gut
Students recognize /u/ in spoken words by observing a meaningful representation and a letter symbol. They then practice finding /u/ in words. They listen to the story "Fuzz and the Buzz" and identify the words they hear with the /u/.
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Don't Wake Mama
Pupils identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...
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Fish, Fish, Fish
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/...
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Look at that BIG PIG!!!
First graders give examples of words that have the /i/ sound. They make the /i/ sound with their mouths and follow along as the poster is read which contains /i/ words. They read the poster together stretching out the /i/ sound and...
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Emergent Literacy: Open Up and Say Aaaah!
Students, through modeling, explore how to make the short /o/ sound. They practice /o/ sound tongue twisters and recognize the sound in written form as the letter 'a'. They practice writing the letter 'a'. They pick out the /o/ sound...
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"Gazunheit!"
Learners study the /a/ phoneme by determining how the mouth move when it makes the sound by imitating a sneeze. They recite a tongue twister, practice writing the lowercase "a" and listen to a story while identifying the letter sound....
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Can you cry like a baby?
Students practice the strategies of phonemes and spellings maps to sound out new words. They work on the short vowel /a/ sound with a sentence strip with "Allie the Alligator sat on a mat eating apples," on it and the book, "Cat in the...
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The Cat in the Hat
First graders participate in an emergent literacy lesson to gain skills essential for the beginning reader. They practice the phoneme of the day or letter "A". The sound and recognition of the letter is the focus of the lesson.
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The Squeaky Creaky Elevator
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson in order to help develop the skills of letter recognition and corresponding sound of the phoneme. This is done with the use of a tongue twister using the phoneme of the letter "e".
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Play Ball
Students calculate baseball statistics and ball field dimensions. In this Pythagorean Theorem, percentages and metric conversion lesson plan, students are given formulas to find earned run and batting averages for White Sox baseball...
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Class Tales
Students improve their reading comprehension by role-playing a bear hunt story. For this reading comprehension lesson, students pretend to go on a bear hunt and complete an art project for the story.
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Verb Baseball
In this verb game activity, students follow instructions to play a game using irregular verbs correctly. Players make correct sentences using verbs shown on circles and tense shown on a spinner.