In this SMART Exchange lesson, students will learn the CAFE reading strategies. This lesson may be used as an instructional tool for teaching and introducing the various strategies to students.

A unique and flexible way to introduce vocabulary. The instructor introduces three new words to the class, then as the book My School's a Zoo by Stu Smith, is read, the students raise their hands when they hear the new words. The...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart integrates a science and reading lesson on dolphins. The lesson includes wonderful interactive activities for the students activating prior knowledge and what they learn in the chart.

Students will learn the difference between making a prediction and an inference as they engage in class discussions about both reading skills, play a game, look at art, and listen to songs.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Compare and Contrast Lesson for 1st Grade Reading in Learning Focused Format.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Inferencing Lesson for First Grade Reading in Learning Focused Format.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains interactive pages to help students learn how to read and interpret tally tables. There are 7 different tally table pages with questions. There are some blank tables at the end of...

Students will learn the characteristics of fables by separating them from myths and legends, as well as view and read fables from Aesop within this SMART whiteboard lesson.

This geography unit is designed to follow the 1st Grade geography skills required in Virginia. Students are expected to use cardinal directions, read map keys and understand map symbols, as well as identify our city and capital.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a reading unit on Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant from the Macmillan/McGraw reading series. Phonics lessons on short a and i. Language lessons on commands and exclamations. Reading...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains reading lessons on Ann's First Day by Constance Andrea Keremes. Phonics lessons on initial, medial, and final consonant sounds. Language lessons on statements and questions and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A rewritten version of Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins. In this flipchart many of the animals have sounds attached to them. The bird in the top right hand corner of each page will read the text for that...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a vocabulary and recognition lesson.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is meant to model a Think Aloud. This strategy models good reading habits for readers: the teacher reads the text aloud and explains their thinking as they read. Duck for President by Doreen...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson asks the students to decide on the sentence order, then drag them into the boxes, deciding whether they describe before or after.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 2nd grade unit based on the story Chinatown by William Low from the Harcourt Trophies series. There are several lessons on the suffixes -er and -est, linking verbs has, have, and had, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson the children will identify spelling sight words by listening to the word and voting for the correct spelling. It provides great practice and assessment for reading, spelling, and teaching.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson contains pre- and post-reading activities for Jan Brett's Annie and the Wild Animals. Students identify setting and animal characters from the story and learn about Scandinavia (where the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] North Carolina kindergarten curriculum (beginning consonant sounds). This lesson provides a reading exercise focusing on beginning sound b. There is also a picture sorting activity.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Cause and Effect Lesson for 1st Grade Reading, written in Learning Focused Format.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning Focused Curriculum Setup; Teaching for letter A includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided lessons, graphic organizers, guided reading, and science tie-ins.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a follow up lesson after teaching words ending in -nd. Students will have the opportunity to make -nd words, use -nd words in story, and share -nd words they find while reading.