Novelinks
Wildwood Dancing: Rewriting a Fairytale
After completing Juliet Marillier's young adult novel Wildwood Dancing, class members rewrite a traditional fairy tale, making three significant changes to illustrate a theme of their choosing.
Penguin Books
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Young Readers Edition
As the saying goes, you are what you eat. A useful set of lesson plans encourage young readers to take a second look at their eating habits. Pre- and post-reading questions bring in reflective writing and discussion while extension...
Pace University
Pollution
Over the course of 10 days, scholars take a pre-assessment to place them in one of three leveled groups. Whole-class and in small groups, pupils take part in read-alouds, field trips, hands-on activities, and complete learning contracts...
Math Learning Center
Second Grade Assessments and Scoring Checklists, Common Core State Standards
How are your second graders progressing in their math skills? Find out with a series of math assessment activities. With baseline assessment score sheets for each skill, you can track how well your kids are adding, subtracting, telling...
Santa Monica College
The Composition of Potassium Chlorate
The third lesson in a series of 11 begins by using thermal decomposition of potassium chlorate to determine the mass percent of oxygen. Then a second activity allows scholars to demonstrate that the resulting residue is from a...
Curated OER
Patterning Lesson Plan
Open the eyes of young mathematicians to the patterns that are found everywhere in the world around them. After a shared reading of I See Patterns by Linda Benton, children complete a series of hands-on activities that teach them...
Curated OER
Prereading
Fourth graders participate in think-pair-share reading strategy in this lesson. They identify their purpose for reading as well as purposes for reading fiction/nonfiction. They list and discuss several prereading activities, and then...
Curated OER
Thanksgiving For Preschool
Students read books, make turkey hands, eat gingerbread cookies, and more to learn about Thanksgiving. In this Thanksgiving lesson plan, students also write what they are thankful for.
Curated OER
Librarian
Students read books, learn about the letter l, and eat pudding all to learn about how to act in a library. In this library lesson plan, students also practice tip toeing around the room.
Curated OER
Night of the Twister
Pupils use reading strategies for Night of the Twister. In this reading strategies lesson, students name five major catastrophes and books about each. Pupils complete a vocabulary section, make inferences and predictions, read the story...
Curated OER
Firefighters
Students read books, learn about the letter f, and eat ice cream all to learn about firefighters. In this fire fighters lesson plan, students also string beads to look like fire hose and visit a fire house.
Curated OER
Instruments In Action
Students read and demonstrate eight measures of four beats. In this music reading activity, students read and demonstrate through movement their mastery of eight measures of four beats. Students also classify instruments.
Curated OER
Reading My Hero Stories
Learners use the My Hero website to help them develop their reading skills. They create a KWL chart for the hero of their choice.
Curated OER
What I am puzzle - 5
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences to identify what they are describing. Students read 2 sentences and look at the pictures to figure out what the item is.
Curated OER
What I Am Puzzle - 31
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences to solve the clues to what the sentences are describing. Students read 2 sentences and figure out the word is chilly peppers.
Curated OER
What am I puzzle - 32
In this clues activity, 2nd graders read the sentences and solve the clue to what the sentences are describing. Students read 3 sentences and look at 2 pictures.
Curated OER
What I am Puzzle - 2
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the slues to what they are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures.
Curated OER
What I am Puzzle - 14
In this clues worksheet, learners read 3 sentences describing an object and they have to figure out what it is. Students have 2 objects to choose from.
Curated OER
What I am Puzzle - 15
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues for the item described. Students look at 2 pictures and decide what the sentences are describing.
Curated OER
What i am Puzzle - 20
In this clues learning exercise, students read the sentences and solve the clues to what they are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures.
Curated OER
What am I puzzle - 24
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues to what picture the sentences are referring to. Students complete 1 problem.
Curated OER
What I am Puzzle - 27
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues for what the sentences are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures.
Curated OER
What I am Puzzle - 28
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clues to what they are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures.
Curated OER
What I am Puzzle - 35
In this clues worksheet, students read the sentences and solve the clue for what the sentences are describing. Students choose between 2 pictures for what the sentences are describing.