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Butterfly Life Cycle

For Teachers K
Students describe and state the four stages of the life cycle of a butterfly. In this life cycle lesson plan, students copy words and pictures from the life cycle and then identify each stage.
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Father Time

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a memory book and acrostic poem for Father's Day. In this Father's Day lesson, students appreciate unique things their fathers do for them. Students create an original project for their father.
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Musher Madness

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discover facts about Iditarod racing. In this language arts instructional activity, students create a class musher picture dictionary selecting terms from the Musher Term list. Additionally, students create a class picture...
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Needs of Living Things

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discuss and explore the needs of living things. They choose to create a slide show with captions, create a web showing the needs of one Organism using KidPix. or make picture book by hand or using Microsoft Publisher.
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Critic's Corner

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students role-play the role of book critics in their classroom. Individually, they write an evaluation on each book they reading along with a book review. In groups, they examine a variety of professional book reviews and share their...
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The Wind Blew

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students look at a picture book and observe what the facial expressions show.  In this character's feelings lesson, students write what they think the character might be saying on each page and the punctuation they use. ...
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Heroes

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students demonstrate racial awareness. In this diversity instructional activity, students read the book Heroes by Ken Mochizuki. Students participate in a discussion about how the character was discriminated against. A follow-up reading...
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Pendemonium: the Ink on the Sphinx

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners review the forms of nouns through a fanciful video and picture book discussion. They attempt to tell a story about their family without using nouns and then create a noun pyramid of common. proper, plural, and irregular nouns...
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The Jacket: Journal Templates Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Explore this story involving prejudice and racism to enhance learners' comprehension skills. The story The Jacket by Andrew Clements involves an African American boy who is falsely accused of stealing someone's jacket. This teacher's...
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Keiko, Killer Whale

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will create a children's book on Keiko, the killer whale, that was rehabilitated and returned to the wild after living in an aquarium. In small groups, they conduct internet research to find out the history and current...
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Guided Reading: Flora's Box

For Teachers K - 1st
Young readers consider text-to-self connections. Learners discover the text-to-self connection as they read Flora's Box by Tina Althaide. They practice high frequency words, prepositions, and 1:1 correspondence.
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Taxi: A Book Of City Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a literature study that helps them to focus on the concepts of goods and services. They describe the various skills people may need at home, school, and work. Students create a map of businesses found in the city.
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“Wild Readers” Decoding Skills Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Set young readers on the path toward fluency with this phonemic awareness resource. Based on the award-winning children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, this lesson allows beginning readers to practice isolating...
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Picture Word Book

For Teachers Pre-K
Students create a book. In this vocabulary and word identification lesson, students make a book by gluing pictures on construction paper, then the teacher writes words in the book to label each picture.
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Famous African Americans ABC Book

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create an ABC book with short biographies of famous African Americans in history. They utilize teacher-selected and/or student-researched library sources about African Americans in history.
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Picture a Business

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create helpful books about local businesses to show what resources are available to their community.
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words - The Caldecott Award

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students engage in a variety of activities as they study illustrators, how illustrations enhance a studenT book, and the Caldecott Award. They write a report about their favorite illustrator.
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The Me Book

For Teachers K - 5th
Students relate to the pictures as symbols so that they come to point to named pictures, explain what pictured objects are for, match pictures to real objects, categorize objects, and recognize words.
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Mercer Mayer-Just Me and My ...books

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read various Mercer Mayer books. They discuss the enhancement of family and relationships within the family. Students write a book with their peers about their relationship with a member of their family. They practice their...
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You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the purpose for reading a piece of literature. In this reading lesson plan, 5th graders view the cover of a book and then predict the order of details from the book.  Students listen to the piece of literature...
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Read It, Picture It! Reading to Learn

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the reading comprehension strategy of visualization. They practice visualization by making pictures in their mind. They draw the pictures from their visualizations with explanations.
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"All About Me Book" Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st
First graders study their teacher. In this first day of school activity, 1st graders listen to a book created by the teacher that details the characteristics of the teacher (likes, dislikes, who he/she is, where he/she lives, etc). They...
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Lesson 2: Draw a Fire-Safety Picture

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners illustrate fire safety practices. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify fire hazards within the home, and discuss fire safety. Learners read mini-books based on fire safety, and then illustrate fire safety...
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Writing a Book Review

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students examine the different formats book reviews can be presented. As a class, they brainstorm what they already know about writing a book review adding to a concept web. They write their own review using the tips giving to them and...

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