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What is a Haiku? How Do You Write a Haiku?
Haiku poetry is explored in this language arts lesson. Yong readers identify the characteristics of haiku and read several examples. Students make connections between their study of Japan and the poetic form of haiku, and they write...
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Phonemic Awareness: Segmenting
You ever feel like your going in circles? Because this lesson seems very much like others I've seen. First graders put up a finger as they count each phoneme the teacher emphasises as she says a series of words.
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Hard C and Soft C
Students categorize different words that contain a hard c and a soft c. In this hard and soft c lesson plan, students also pick words from each of the categories and write a story with those words.
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Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Blending
This resource is more of a suggestion than a full lesson. It explains how young pre-readers can work with their teacher to practice blending phonemes to make words. The class watches the teacher as she says and orally segments a word...
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SWOOP Reading
First graders read fluently. In this phonics lesson students practice reading strategies for fluency. They write a response in their journal about the book read in class.
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Alphabet
Students state the letters of the alphabet individually and in new words. In this alphabet lesson plan, students use the alphabet in a variety of ways during reading.
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Word Family Nuts
Students explore the English language by participating in a word match activity. In this word family lesson plan, students write a specific word family on a paper squirrel and write words that belong to the family on a paper acorn....
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Fairytale Homes
Students create homes for fairytale characters. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop literacy, language, and problem-solving concepts as they create block structures related to specific fairy tales.
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Move the Sounds
Use cut out letters to make beginning sounds, blends, and word families that ultimately make new words. Learners move around physically as they hold the letters to make the specified blend or word. Assessment suggestions are included.
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Instant Spelling Activity: 1st Grade
First graders practice their spelling skills. In this spelling instructional activity, 1st graders explore onsets and rimes as they complete an activity regarding double letters.
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A Turkey for Thanksgiving - Lesson #2
Second graders investigate realistic fiction, holiday celebrations, making tally charts. For this multi-disciplinary lesson, 2nd graders listen to a story about Thanksgiving and one about the Chinese New Year to develop an understanding...
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Anansi and the Tug o' War
Combine art, math, language arts, drama, and delicious Jell-o with a instructional activity based on the African folktale Anansi and the Tug o' War. Kids make predictions and discuss plot points of the story before joining in...
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First Letter Changes
Students use the books of Eric Carle to change the first letter in a word to see a new word. In this phonics lesson plan, students change the beginning letters in poems and books.
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Anansi and the Tug O' War
Read a short book with your first graders! Anansi and the Tug O' War is the focus of this lesson plan. After reading the African story together, they complete language arts activities to practice reading comprehension. A...
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Word Family Jamboree
Students explore rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. For this word family lesson, students identify beginning and ending sounds. Students draw pictures of words and use phonetic spellings to write stories. Students use Dr. Seuss...
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Can You Compose?
Fourth graders investigate musical notes. In this music lesson, 4th graders compose a short song while clapping the rhythm and singing the syllables using the appropriate notes or rests.
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Dolch Work Bingo
Young scholars play Bingo using Dolch sight words on their game cards. In this sight word lesson, students create their own Bingo card, filling it out with dolch words from their provided list. When a student has gotten...
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Enormous Turnips
First graders complete activities with the story The Great Big Enormous Turnip by Alexel Tolstoy. In this language arts lesson, student view the story as a Cloze passage and work with a partner to fill in the blanks. They check to...
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Peg and Hen
Young scholars navigate a website to practice the short e sound. In this short e sound instructional activity, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.
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Phonemic Awareness: Isolation
Teacher and class work together to build strong phonemic awareness. They say a series of words, isolate the initial phoneme, and say its sound. This lesson is super short but does have a decent extension activity suggestion.
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Two Vowels Making one Sound
First graders become word detectives and find words with the vowel combinations: "ee" and "ai". In this phonics lesson, 1st graders read the words they find and create pictionaries of the words read.
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Fun in the Sun
Young scholars learn about safe summertime play and responsibility. In this Clifford-themed lesson plan, students read Clifford Keeps Cool, use a time line to discuss the story, and participate in a summertime picnic activity.
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Something's Fishy
Learners study fish habits and traits. In this marine life lesson, students complete four learning centers of a fish memory game, a fish habitat study, draw and glue fish craft activity, and a fish read-a-thon. Learners complete their...
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Recognition of the Letters
Students practice writing words and brief sentences. In this phonics lesson, students write letters phonetically spelling the words legibly.