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Kwanzaa Language Arts: The Tambiko
Students read or hear about famous African Americans to learn about the ways in which they exemplify one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
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Alphabet Books
Students explore alphabetic principle and phonemic awareness by making alphabet books. They identify initial consonant sounds and choose pictures of objects that begin with given letters of the alphabet. Students identify phonemes...
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Can You Open the Creaky Door?
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Which One Doesn't Belong?
Third graders identify words that are related with 80% accuracy. Given a list of four vocabulary words, 3rd graders identify specific relationships between three of the four words. They also identify which of the four words are not...
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Icky Sticky and Itty Bitty
Students identify the letter i and the sound that it makes in various words and illustrations with the sound /i/. They practice writing the letter I both upper and lower case on paper. Finally, students circle the pictures with the...
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Choo Choo Train
First graders study the sound and spelling of the /ch/ digraph. They repeat words containing the "ch" before making words using their Elkonin letterboxes and letter manipulatives. Next, they clap each time they hear the "ch" digraph...
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Fish, Fish, Fish
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/...
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Emergent Literacy
Students practice speaking and spelling words, and recognize and demonstrate understanding of sounds (phonemes) that each letter contains. Students focus specifically on letter S and its sound.
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Higglety, Pigglety, Pop
Students engage in a lesson that is about the concept of reading comprehension while practicing the reading with the help of the teacher. They read the story focusing upon the rhyming words that could be used for vocabulary.
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Elmer the Elephant
First graders recognize the short vowel E in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and spell...
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Numeracy Lesson Plans
Students complete a series of lesson plans dealing with numbers, counting, and ordering. In this numbers lesson plan, students identify numbers, identify number patterns, count forwards and backwards, and more.
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Numeracy Lesson Plan: Reception
Students examine number sense by participating in identification activities. For this number value lesson, students practice counting from 1-10, identifying number flash cards, reading clocks and multiplying basic numbers. Students...