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Teaching Word Meaning Synonyms, Antonyms, and Analogies
Strengthen and enhance your class's vocabulary with a guided lesson on word relationships. Focusing on synonyms and antonyms, the lesson demonstrates ways to compare and define different words, including word analogies and thesaurus skills.
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Big Words
Young scholars discover philanthropy. In this philanthropic lesson, students read Martin's Big Words and explore voluntarily being nice to people. Young scholars discover how they may perform acts of service for others. Extension...
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All Kinds of Books
Young scholars engage in a variety of book making activities to foster creativity, literacy, and fine-motor skills. For this book-making lesson, students author a book about the days of the week, illustrating the activities that they...
Middle Tennessee State University
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? A Comparison in American Culture
As part of their study of the Progressive Era, class groups examine a 20th century version of "The Three Little Pigs" through a New Era lens and identify how ideals such as the value of hard work, creativity, and problem solving, etc.,...
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A'planting We will Go
Germination is an amazing process that results in amazing things. The book The Tiny Seed is the inspiration for a set of activities that will help build early literacy, observation, language, and writing skills. The class observes how...
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Let's Sing, Read, and Write
Learners sing and read the old favorite song Wheels on the Bus, and write new song text for a poster and a class book.
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A Small Book of Small Things
Students explore size relationships as they collect pictures of the small things in their world. For this early childhood math and literacy lesson, students gain an understanding of size differences and develop fine-motor and literacy...
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Big Hat People
Students investigate visual arts by reading a children's book in class. In this collage lesson, students read the book by Keith Haring titled Big and discuss the themes and settings. Students discuss how adjectives are used to describe...
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Big Machines! Big Buildings! Lesson Plan
Students read a book and understand the cumulative events of the story through sequencing. For this lesson about cumulative texts, students are able to read the story and understand the sequence of the events. Students listen to the...
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Dogfighting Lesson Two - Bite Prevention and Community
Young scholars discover how to prevent dog bites by completing worksheets and watching a video. In this animal safety lesson, students view a video called Dogs, Cats and Big Kids, taking notes throughout. Young scholars take a quiz and...
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Earth Day Lesson
Students analyze Earth science by answering environmental study questions. In this Earth Day instructional activity, students read the book The Lorax and identify the themes within it. Students define several recycling vocabulary terms...
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Big Words
Students read the book Big Words and do literacy based activities that are based on the book. In this literacy lesson plan, students read the given book and do activities that include synonym matching, word building, maze finding, mood...
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Books by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell
Students complete a selection of activities based on the books by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell. In this author study lesson, students are introduced to eight books by the authors, then complete worksheets to find synonyms, make...
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Books by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell
Students complete a selection of activities based on the books by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell. In this author study activity, students are introduced to eight books by the authors, then complete worksheets to find synonyms, make...
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The Big E!
Students study the correspondence ea=/E/ by examining picture cards that show examples of items with the long "e" sound. They listen to a read aloud of Nancy Shaw's, Sheep Out to Eat before writing words that contain the "ea"...
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Clifford's Big Idea: Be Responsible
Students become aware of how important it is to be responsible at home and school through meaningful reading and language experiences. In this Clifford Gets a Job lesson plan, students author their own booklet regarding responsibility at...
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Better Attitudes and Skills in Children
Little kids often have very big feelings, and need help expressing them. A set of social emotional lessons provide tangible ways for young elementary learners to visualize their emotions, focus on clear communication, and channel their...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Think Positive!
Following an attention-grabbing read-aloud, scholars brainstorm ways they can change negative thoughts into positive thoughts. Small groups plan and perform a skit that showcases one of the new ideas to uplift one's feelings....
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Let's Learn About Plants!
Students discover different plants and plant parts by observing their campus. In this plant life lesson, students take a guided walk around their school with a magnifying glass examining everyday plants as well as photographing them....
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How Much Is A Million
Help young learners visualize the concept of "a million." To convey concepts of numeration and literacy, they will listen to the book How Much is a Million? by David Schwartz. They should be able to make self-to-text connections....
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K-W-L Chart
After choosing a topic of interest, young learners use the K-W-L thinking process to create an informational, illustrated, big book. K-W-L, a three-part thinking process, asks the learner to respond to three questions: What do we know...
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Lilly's Big Day
Students read the story Lilly's Big Day and do language arts and math activities based on the book. In this language arts and math lesson plan, students read the book given and do activities that include matching activities, number...
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The Great Big Especially Beautiful Easter Egg
Students make predictions about the book The Great Big Especially Beautiful Easter Egg by doing a picture walk. In this comprehension lesson plan, students read the book, see if their predictions were right, and draw pictures of their own.
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Basic Knowledge of Big Cats
First graders create a KWL chart on big cats. In this animal science lesson plan, 1st graders brainstorm what they already know about big cats and research big cats using various suggested websites. Students fill in the last column of...