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Friendly Relationships
Students compare and contrast the difference between a stranger, an acquaintance, and a friend. Through class discussion, they identify the difference in how you behave around strangers, acquaintances, and friends. Student participate in...
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Flavorful Friends
Students read a book about friends, talk about good friends, and make "flavorful friends" out of food. In this friends lesson plan, students make their "friends" out of cookies, raisins, m&m's, and more.
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Friends
Students complete vocabulary activities about friends. In this vocabulary lesson, students introduce themselves in a ball game format and discuss the topic of friends. Students complete a worksheet with related vocabulary and read a...
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Conflict Resolution Trade-book
Students discover ways of dealing with conflicts at school by reading a guide. In this psychology lesson, students identify how conflicts are started with fellow classmates by reading a trade-book with their class. Students read each...
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Letter Writing -Traditional and Modern
Third graders study the parts of a friendly letter and how to address an envelope. They write pen pal letters using traditional and modern mailing practices.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, OLIVIA'S FRIEND
Students study Eleanor Roosevelt the person. They explore how she cared about people. They examine what she looked like and some basic good qualities about her.
They study three historical facts about ER, such as: Eleanor Roosevelt...
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My Worst Best Sleepover Party
Students read the book The Best Worst Sleepover Party and discuss their feelings about bullying. In this bullying lesson, students discuss anxiety bullying, and what qualities a friend should have. Students design classroom expectations...
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Friendly Neighbors
Students identify the sequence of events in a text. In this literacy lesson, students read the book Miss Tizzy and sequence the events from the text. Students reflect and write about the philanthropic acts in the book.
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Every Day Edit - Arthur and His TV Friends
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Arthur the television show. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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My Friend Robot
Can you do better than a robot? Teams write instructions for a hypothetical robot to build a structure. They test their instructions by acting them out to see if they produce the desired structure.
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The Relatives Came: A Family Read-Along
Students read the book, 'The Relatives Came' by Cynthia Rylant to revive memories about their own summer vacations and family customs. They write a friendly letter about a fantasy summer vacation--"What I Wish I Did on My Summer...
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The 3 Little Pigs
Second graders create new endings to The Three Little Pigs. They read and discuss The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and compare it to the original version. After comparing the two versions, they write a friendly letter to the wolf...
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Christmas Makes Me Think
Third graders discover that Christmas is a time for giving and sharing. In this Christmas spirit lesson, 3rd graders read a book about a child who is excited about Christmas trees and presents, but comes to realize that Christmas is...
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Dino-Friends
Students learn about dinosaurs. In this dinosaur lesson, students participate in an interactive read aloud of The Giant Book of Dinosaurs. They make play dough dinosaurs and write a dinosaur story about their sculpture. They dance around...
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Sarah's Appointment Book
In this appointment and daily schedule worksheet, students fill out an appointment book. Students read the paragraph that tells about a daily routine and fill in the correct task next to each time.
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Writing A Letter Using the Book Mole's Hill
Pupils listen to the book, Mole's Hill, and identify the problems and solutions in the story. They choose characters from the book and write letters using Interactive Writing procedures, then create a display of the setting of the story.
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Quick Literacy Centers for Back to School
Use a set of quick and easy to use literacy centers at the beginning of the year as you start to assess your students. The 13-page packet provides writing and reading activities with simple directions that allows new class members to...
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One
First graders listen to the story One and design a favorite color graph. For this language arts lesson, learners answer comprehension questions and discover the importance of standing up for a friend. They complete a worksheet about...
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Making Independent Reading and Book Reports Motivating
Here are some exciting ideas to get your students motivated to read independently.
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ASL: Lesson 10
Focus on learning how to sign cardinal and ordinal numbers, nouns, and lexicalized fingerspelling. Here is lesson 10 of the series on learning ASL. Provided, are multiple links that provide a visual guide to proper signing. Teach your...
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The Summer of the Swans
The Summer of the Swans, by Betsy Byars, is a 160-page chapter book about a family going through a difficult time. Complement your reading of Byars' book with this detailed outline of each chapter. Every section includes comprehension...
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Bring Science to Life With Lesson Plans for Eric Carle Books
An Eric Carle author study can lead students to study a variety of subjects including ocean life, life cycles, and symbiotic relationships.
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Straight Talk On Tough Issues
Students engage in a activity that is focused upon the concept of breast cancer and research is conducted using a variety of reference sources. They reflect upon how different people deal with the tragedy of cancer and then students...
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Summer Reading Activities
Provide parents with the tools they need to bridge the summer learning gap with this collection of fun activities. Whether it's creating an alphabet poster with illustrations for each letter, playing a game of sight word concentration,...