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Counting Back and Counting On

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Read aloud your choice of books about counting on and counting back (a list is provided, or tell stories of your own). Your learners will write horizontal equations to portray what happens in the story. They build a paper chain and...
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Lengths of Ladybugs

For Teachers K
Students are read a book about ladybugs. Using the test, they estimate which page shows the longest trip the ladybug made. They assemble their own ladybug book by following directions on a worksheet. They take measurements on each...
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The Ladybug Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the traits of ladybugs. In this ladybug lesson, students read books, sing songs, and learn fingerplays about ladybugs. Students also create their own ladybugs.
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The Grouchy Ladybug

For Teachers K - 1st
Students learn about sorting and classifying objects by size while reading Eric Carle's "The Grouchy Ladybug". For this sorting and classifying lesson, students first listen to and interact with the story. They then look at cut-outs of...
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Printables
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Color Bugs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Bugs are creepy, crawly, and beautiful! Explore the world of colorful bugs with a presentation about bugs that are different colors. With red ladybugs, yellow caterpillars, and purple dragonflies, the presentation is sure to delight and...
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Ladybug Leaf

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students employ a literary hook to promote number and color mastery through a hands-on craft experience. They participate in a mini-lesson on ladybugs. Students encounter what they are, what they look like and what do they eat.
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Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate the concept of reading while focusing upon using "Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home" for comprehension exercises. They read the story and use the rhyming with the drill and practice technique of teaching. Students...
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The Grouchy Ladybug

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete a Cirlce Map about time. They recall times during the grouchy ladybugs travels, and add dots on ladybugs using turn-around facts. Pupils correctly sequence the events of The Grouchy Ladybug. Students compose new...
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The Grouchy Ladybug By Eric Carle

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a unit about ladybugs based on Eric Carle's, The Grouchy Ladybug. They complete comprehension questions, categorization activities, Venn diagrams, and choral readings of Susan M. Paprocki', Little Red Bug. As they...
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Lucy the Changing Ladybug

For Teachers K
Students listen as the teacher reads "Lucy the Changing Ladybug." Students use construction paper to create a large leaf which they divode and number four sections. Each section will be illustrated to represent one stage of a ladybug's...
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Worksheet
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Five Little Ladybugs

For Students 1st - 4th
In this counting poem, student read a poem about ladybugs and count backward from 5 until there are no ladybugs left.
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Grouchy Ladybug

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a read aloud of Eric Carle's, The Grouchy Ladybug and do a rewrite using a software program. They create an original graphic, insert text boxes, keyboard sentences and set time on a clock face while writing a...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Have You Seen Bugs? (Oppenheim)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Are your scholars interested in bugs? Get future entomologists excited about vocabulary through Joanne Oppenheim's colorful book Have You Seen Bugs? They use the informational text (although this strategy is useful for any book) to learn...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Red Riding Hood (Marshall)

For Teachers K - 2nd
It's the classic story of Little Red Riding Hood retold by James Marshall; scholars listen for six new words as you read: bouquet, charming, escort, horrid, tarry, and wicked. Introduce the words before reading so they can listen for...
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Complete Novel Guide: James and the Giant Peach

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Before your class reads the book James and the Giant Peach, check out this very handy set of learning activities. The reading guide provides you with several excellent ideas for building vocabulary related to the text and reading...
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Sorting the Animals

For Students Pre-K - K
Does a fish have four legs? Of course not! Youngsters practice their counting (and animal attributes) skills as they determine which of each set of animals has a specified number of legs. They circle animals with four, six, two, and zero...
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Glue-line Insect

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore characteristics of ladybugs. They view ladybugs in ventilated containers and discuss their observations. Students read a story about ladybugs and create a glue picture of a ladybug.
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How Grouchy are YOU!!!!!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle. With this selection, they encounter how to read with different voices. Students keep a reading journal in this class as well.
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Problem Solving 1

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this online interactive problem solving worksheet, students read a graph and use their problem solving skills in order to respond to 10 questions.
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Time: How To Tell What Time It Is

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice telling time using analog and digital clocks.  In this time telling lesson plan, students read the book The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle, and practice telling the time on a model clock that is constantly changing....
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What's the Category

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this categories worksheet, students read the group of words and put them into a category. Students complete this for 22 problems.
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Language Arts Book 1 Grade 4 Test

For Students 4th
In this language arts book 1 grade 4 test worksheet, 4th graders read 5 passages, then answer 28 multiple choice comprehension questions in standardized test format.
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Grade 4 Language Arts Test Book 3

For Students 4th
In this grade 4 language arts test book 3 worksheet, 4th graders read a passage and answer 2 questions by writing a paragraph using supporting details. 
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More Than

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
These pictures need more! Before youngsters are able to count, they can comprehend the concept of more; help strengthen pre-reading and counting skills using this drawing activity. They examine three pictures and add more to each. A...