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Sequencing / Story Events

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read a story and use sentence strips to order story events.  In this sequencing lesson, students learn new vocabulary words centered around the story Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, preview the story, make predictions...
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Scrambled Eggs Super!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study rhythm and rhyme. In this rhyming lesson, students read Scrambled Eggs Super! by Dr. Seuss. Students explore the rhythm of rhyming words found in the book. The students decorate eggs and place rhyming words inside to use...
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The Three Bears

For Teachers K
Students explore the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In this Goldilocks and the Three Bears lesson, students study aspects of reading through the story with companion rhymes. Cross curricular activities are included.
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Speaking Skills

For Teachers Pre-K
Students listen to The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and use a teacher created puppet for a listening activity.  In this Hungry Caterpillar lesson, students recall the order of events in the story with the puppet and cards of the...
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The Lorax

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify environmental problems. In this natural resources lesson students participate in several activities that support critical thinking about the environment and natural resources. The students write, list, and verbally...
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Mini-Unit: Natural Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how their choices affect others.  In this character development and ecology lesson, students debate choice-making issues.  Students listen to The Lorax by Dr. Seuss and identify choices the characters made...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: The Political Dr. Seuss

For Students 8th - 12th
In this historical events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons by Theodor Geisel. Students respond to 2 talking point questions.
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Bodaciously Beautiful Butterflies Take Flight

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars complete study on butterflies using real caterpillars, keep individual daily journals of observations, and complete timeline for their caterpillar/butterfly.
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Freak the Mighty - Rodman Philbrick

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read and examine the novel Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick. A variety of assignments involving this novel is offered for the students to complete with higher order thinking skills.
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Sergei Prokofiev's "peter And the Wolf": Learning And Creating

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students write their own version of "Peter and the Wolf". They explore the characters and the instruments that represent the characters. They use graphic organizing software to brainstorm ideas for characters and story lines for...
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Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. In this Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs activity, 2nd graders are given a list of words from the story to write with. Students write their own story with the words, then...
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Friendship

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore human psychology by reading a book in class. In this friendship lesson, 1st graders identify the benefit of friends and strong relationships while reading the book The Rainbow Fish. Students analyze the images from...
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners complete activities with the story The Three Billy Goats Gruff.  For this literature lesson, students listen to the story and then participate in shared reading. This lesson offers three extensions which link the story to...
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The Enormous "Kinder" Garden

For Teachers K
Students discover books about planting enormous things. In this reading lesson plan, students experience several books centered around growing enormous plants. Cross curricular activities are included
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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore weather. In this weather lesson, 2nd graders read Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and participate in four supplemental science activities. Students participate in Internet research, create weather maps,...
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Classroom Fun with Flat Stanley!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students complete various activities based on the Flat Stanley books. In this Flat Stanley lesson, students brainstorm a list of supernatural qualities as an introduction to the book, then create story webs based on the book characters...
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Parenting - Discipline and Guidance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the role of discipline and guidance in their own lives and become better able to appropriately guide and discipline young Students.
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Who's Inside the Mitten?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read "The Mitten", by Jan Brett. They discuss vocabulary presented in the story and sequence significant plot events. They make masks to represent several of the characters and act out the story.
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Express Yourself

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars share opinions about the way students behave. They write letters to the editor responding to an article.
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Story Solutions

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Reading and writing are like peanut butter and chocolate, they just work better together. Stimulate those budding authors with a fun learning exercise that requires them to read three story starters. The stories have been left...
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Make reading cool

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students look at ways of encouraging others to read and write a letter to Jacqueline Wilson. Students read a a news article on Jackqueline Wilson. They discuss ways or promoting reading. Students imagine they are an author invited to...
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Down By The Bay

For Teachers Pre-K
Students read the book Down By The Bay and sing the song that goes with it. In this Down By The Bay lesson plan, students also come up with other rhymes that could go with the song.
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The Three Bears' Voices

For Teachers Pre-K
Students explore language arts by reading a classic story. In this oral storytelling lesson, students read the book The Three Bears and identify the characters and discuss how their voices would sound. Students practice retelling the...
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You Gotta Have A Hat

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare versions of the folktale, 'Caps for Sale.' After listening to both stories, 1st graders utilize a Venn Diagram imbedded in this lesson plan to produce a graphic organizer detailing the similarities and differences...

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