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Good Grape Soda--Gulp, Gulp, Gulp

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the phoneme /g/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /g/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /g/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme /g/ in various...
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A Visit to the Doctor

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel O in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Yellowish Fish

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners engage in an emergent literacy lesson in order to obtain the skill of phoneme awareness to become better readers. They practice blending different phonemes in order to eventually form words.
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Crying Baby Sound

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words from the story...
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Say aahhh....said the doctor

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel O in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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There's a Mouse in the House! Aaa!!!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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I Hear a Baby Crying

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Dive into Reading During National Book Month!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Cultivate a passion for literature with fun, easy to incorporate reading activities.
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Closing Up Shop: the End of the School Year

For Teachers K - 12th
How to say goodbye, stay organized, and handle stress as the school year comes to a close.
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Watercolor and Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars create a watercolor painting of a color or an object that make the student feel a certain way. They describe how this color makes them feel through writing a short poem.
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Halloween Candy Sort

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use their Halloween candy to practice sorting and classifying. They compete a Venn diagram comparing their candy wrappers. They develop ways as a class to catorgize the candy in different ways.
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Algebra Wizards

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are exposed to algebraic thinking by exploring the concept of a variable. They tell how many years have passed since they've seen a favorite teacher and then examine how they arrived at this number. They write equations.
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Oobleck

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore Oobleck. They manipulate and observe the properties of Oobleck. Students discuss the differences between solids and liquids. They investigate Oobleck. Students write a sentence describing what they observed about...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Nonsense Poetry and Whimsy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Primary learners are introduced to Lewis Carroll's whimsical poetry. They read "The Nursery Alice" Carroll's adaptation for younger readers, view story illustrations, listen to poetry and write whimsical verses of their own about food.
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Making Your Point Using Dialect

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Explore the sounds, importance, and effectiveness of dialect in literature.  Active participants read, listen to poetry, and explore dialect by developing a formal definition, discuss the benefits of its use, complete a Venn diagram...
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Land Use Unit

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify factors in human society and the natural environment aree interdependent. They analyze interdependencies demonstrated in various situations and occurances.
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Why the Grinch Stole Christmas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write paragraphs highlighting reasons why the Grinch may have stolen Christmas.
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Butterflies and Frogs

For Teachers K
Students identify patterns found in nature.
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Ugly Bug/Snuggly Bug

For Teachers K
Students demonstrate an understanding of rhyming words by creating buggy pictures and a sentence containing rhyming words. They listen to the story, 'Creepy Beetles,' then engage in an activity where they identify the rhyming words.
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The Path of Water

For Teachers 3rd
This project is designed so students can learn about the sources of water, the path it takes to get to homes and businesses, and the ways we use water. Students will begin by expanding their awareness of the hydrosphere as they research...
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Landscape Observation: How Portland Has Changed

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars read The Lorax and discuss how populations change the environment. Using given photos, students use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the Portland of yesterday to present day Portland. They write a comparison paper...
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The Path of Water

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss the sources of water, the path it takes to get to homes and businesses, and the ways we use water. Students begin by expanding their awareness of the hydrosphere as they research the water cycle, the sources of our...
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The Lorax

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, while working in groups, identify five sets of words that rhyme in order to write and illustrate a storybook using rhyming words through a journal entry. They assess proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation in their...
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Once Upon a Thank You

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students are encouraged to revisit their favorite books and recall just what it was about the author who wrote each book or the characters they created that made the story so special. They then celebrate their chosen authors and/or...