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Firefighters

For Teachers Pre-K - K
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.
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Pilots

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter p, and have 'p' snacks all to learn about pilots. Students also pretend to fly and draw what they would see if they were flying up in the air.
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Insects

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter i, and eat raisins that represent ants all to learn about insects. In this insects lesson plan, students also observe an ant farm and play follow the leader.
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Rabbits

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter r, and eat carrots all to learn about rabbits. In this rabbits lesson plan, students also do the bunny hop and make rabbits out of play dough.
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Hamsters

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars read books, learn about the letter h, and eat apples all to learn about hamsters. In this hamsters lesson plan, students also use play dough to make hamsters.
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Frogs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners read books, learn about the letter f, play with plastic toys, and more to do with frogs. In this frogs lesson plan, students also play a game of leap frog.
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Clowns

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter c, and eat with clown noses on to learn about clowns. For this clowns lesson plan, students also have a parade where they dress like clowns.
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Raccoons

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pupils read books, learn about the letter r, and eat trail mix all to learn about raccoons. In this raccoons lesson plan, students also use construction paper to make raccoon tails.
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Ladybugs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter l, and eat bug crackers all to learn about ladybugs. In this goldfish lesson plan, students also color pages and decorate ladybug cookies.
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Reading and Writing Poetry: Seeing Many Facets of Fresh Water

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create an original poem about water.  In this Robert Frost and water lesson, students read examples of Robert Frost's poetry, write an interpretation, and look for imagery that appeals to the senses.  Students use a...
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Word Center

For Teachers K - 2nd
Construct spelling words through a Making Words activity. Learners create words at various levels using onsets, rimes, suffixes, long and short vowels, and word families. They write words as they create them and compare the words with...
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Mapping Out the Story

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Discuss the reading comprehension strategy of summarization with your elementary schoolers! They read a chapter from their social studies textbook, Regions Near and Far, and create a map, or word web, for the chapter. They identify...
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The Ocean Floor

For Students 7th - 8th
Practice reading comprehension by approaching oceanography through 2 pages of informational text. The text compares the ocean floor to the Grand Canyon to gives students perspective, and gives a brief coverage of the earth's crust and...
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Time

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Introduce kids to the wonders of telling time. A variety of time telling devices are used to show what time it is. Kids will read each clock or watch to determine the correct time. Tip: This would be a great tool to use at an independent...
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Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, Phoneme Counting Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pre-readers use the provided cards to say and sort based on the number of phonemes in each word.
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Medial Phoneme Dominoes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Matching medial phonemes can be as easy as playing a game of dominoes! These dominoes contain pictures of items children can say. As they say each word aloud, they work to match the medial sound to one on an adjacent card. Just like real...
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Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Flash

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars work in pairs to drill and practice alphabet sounds, keeping track of their progress on a chart. Working one at a time, each partner flips letter cards, saying the sound and letter. If they get it correct, it goes in the YES...
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Match Maker

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pre-readers identify and match initial phonemes. Scholars take turns choosing one card from each of the three stacks. They say the name of the image on the card, then keep whichever cards have a matching initial phoneme.
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Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyming Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars practice their rhyming skills with a game. Players roll dice to move along the board game, stopping to rhyme words and find a match.
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Phonics, Letter-Sound Correspondence: Letter Bag

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An activity focuses on final sounds sorting. Scholars pull objects out of a bag, identify what letter sound the object ends with, then draw the picture under the appropriate column.
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Phoneme Quest

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this phonics activity, little learners glue picture cards under the initial, medial, and final phonemes represented by the lead sound cards. An image of a shark broken into three parts represents the initial phoneme /sh/, the medial...
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Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Sound Detective

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Play letter sound detective with your class, and snoop out sounds, onsets, blends, and rhyme. In pairs, children take turns choosing a card from the pile; as they sound out part of the word, their partner attempts to figure out which...
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Alphabet Borders

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Help young scholars name the letters of the alphabet. They use the provided alphabet border and letter cards to take turns saying and finding various alphabet letters. This simple game can be extended by having learners focus on the...
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Blending, What's My Word?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
At a listening station, learners listen to a pre-recorded script; they follow the directions and number each picture on their picture chart corresponding to the segmented phonemes they hear.

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