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Military Conscription in World War I: Alabamians Express Their Opinions
If called, would you go? Should the US government have the power to impose a draft during any war? The Selective Service Act of 1917 (aka the Conscription Act of 1917) authorized the drafting of men into the military for only the second...
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Letter and Rhyme a Day
There are so many fun activities for alphabet learners! Use nursery rhymes, letter hunts, and the name sort to have learners interact with the letter of the day. Your learners will never get bored with the variety of activities provided...
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Alphabet Letters in a Can
Let's practice the alphabet! In this letter recognition lesson plan, young writers create uppercase and lowercase letter cards. Students sort the cards into alphabetical order and complete other literacy activities with them.
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Vocabulary Instruction: Identify and Sort Common Words into Categories
Kids learn about the concept of nouns. They practice identifying nouns by sorting words into categories. As the teacher holds up each word, the class reads it in unison, then they take turns identifying it as a noun or non noun word....
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Colors And Letters
Students click on the hyperlink to enjoy some games on the names of colors and the name of letters. They sing the alphabet song, sort objects by color, and match like letters.
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Reading Proficiently and Independently: The Power of Setting Goals
Scholars reflect upon their reading strengths and challenges to create personal reading goals. Participants use goal-setting verbiage in an accordion-style graphic organizer, a first step in writing a letter that details their reading...
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S Letter Ideas
Students participate in activities that start with the letter "S". They also expand their vocabulary.
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Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: On-Demand Informational Writing
Lesson 7 focuses on building academic vocabulary and writing an explanatory letter with supported textual evidence. For the first five minutes of the instructional activity, the educator reminds the class of how to read and refer to the...
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Bright Mice
Kindergarten through second graders explore the long i sound. In this phonics lesson, they read The Mother's Day Mice, sing "Farmer in the Dell," and play I Spy with long i in order to explore the target sound. Additionally, there is a...
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Billy Brown and the Belly Button Beastie
How would you feel if you lost your belly button? Read about Billy Brown in Billy Brown and the Belly Button Beastie by Bobby and Sherry Norfolk. Young learners retell the story, answer questions, focus on the letter B and parts of the...
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Pilots
Students read books, learn about the letter p, and have 'p' snacks all to learn about pilots. Students also pretend to fly and draw what they would see if they were flying up in the air.
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Billy Brown and The Belly Button Beastie
Students read the book Billy Brown and The Belly Button Beastie and complete a variety of activities related to the book. In this reading lesson plan, students complete activities including discovering body parts, bubbles, retelling,...
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Short a and short i
Pupils participate in a lesson used in order to strengthen reading comprehension skills. They use spelling lists in order to sort them to the corresponding studied sounds. Vocabulary is used and students read them in context.
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I SPY Art from A to Z
Students explore the Alphabet and acquire basic English vocabulary through the exploration of art. They find the alphabet in a variety of visual art images the teacher provides for them. Students count, sort and categorize Alphabet...
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American Lives in Two Centuries:What Is an American?
Students decide what it means to be an American. In this historical perspectives instructional activity, students read Crevecoeur's "Letter from an American Farmer," and interviews with everyday Americans from the Works Progress...
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Pattern Power
Young elementary students will discover there are patterns all around them in their daily lives. In groups, they sort pattern blocks by size and color. Using the internet, they create their own type of patterns and share them with the...
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The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie: A Close Reading
Andrew Carnegie's "The Gospel of Wealth" provides high schoolers an opportunity to engage more complex text. After a close reading of the essay and an analysis of Carnegie's argument that the rich are superior because they earn money,...
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Introduce /aw/
Students investigate letter combinations focusing on /aw/. In this letter combination instructional activity, students examine /aw/ as letters that go together and make a sound. They look at images and sort items by whether they contain...
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I Like Bugs!
Students explore the story I Like Bugs! For this language arts lesson, students sort bugs from the story into the correct category. Students draw pictures of bugs and create a retelling booklet.
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Travel Buddies
A travel buddy is some sort of animal or stuffed character that is transported from one school to another and another. A journal accompanies the buddies and the students make journal entries as if they were written by the buddy at each...
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Spelling Patterns: Or , Oor, and Ore Words
Fourth graders complete word work with words that contain the /or/, /oor/, or /ore/ spelling pattern. In this spelling pattern instructional activity, 4th graders participate in the weekly spelling list activity in which they sort words...
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I Saw A Ship A-Sailing
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the reading of the story while focusing upon the development of vocabulary and reading fluency. They practice reading while running their finger underneath the text to follow along with...
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A Multigenerational Pen Pal Program
Students discover the benefits of writing letters to multigenerational pen pals. For this pen pal lesson, students identify a need for communication among the generations. Students begin a pen pal program with the elders in the...
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Organizing Writing to Convey a Central Idea
Fourth and fifth graders practice the skill of organizing their writing to convey a central idea by sorting 14 facts about the dogwood tree into four categories of facts. The categories, which are written on the board, are; Governmental...