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Grades   K – 1  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom

Students demonstrate their letter/sound knowledge by working with name cards and sharing observations about their classmates' names, giving teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit

Reading Everywhere with Dr. Seuss

Young readers create a classroom book modeled after Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham to celebrate all the places they can read.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

Using a Predictable Text to Teach High-Frequency Words

After reading an engaging yet predictable text about a child looking for his cat, students use a similar format and high-frequency words to craft tales about their own lost pets.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

Book Buddy Biographies: Intermediate and Primary Students Working Together

Students create a personalized biography for their reading buddy, and each child is the author, illustrator, and editor.

 

Grade   K  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

A Getting-Acquainted Activity Using My Teacher's Secret Life

Students build classroom community as they get to know each other and their teacher better by sharing what they like to do outside school.

 

Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations

"2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit

Junie B. Jones Introduces Literacy Mystery Boxes

Like Junie B. Jones, students will be saying "Wait till you hear this" after listening to a Junie B. story and creating mystery boxes to help retell the story.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

Exploring Sets through Math-Related Book Pairs

After reading two math-related books, students investigate their home and school environments to find examples of objects that come in sets and then create their own books on sets.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor

Students play with simile and metaphor as they study the ocean and use figurative language to write a class book about it.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

How Does My Garden Grow? Writing in Science Field Journals

Students plant a garden and study its growth using the inquiry process of questioning and exploring. As they research and study, students record their observations in a field journal.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction Using Read-Alouds

Students explore the distinction between the fiction story Bear Snores On and the nonfiction book Every Autumn Comes the Bear.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

Stop Signs, McDonald's, and Cheerios: Writing With Environmental Print

Students use logos from everyday life to identify individual letters and then create their own captions for the images.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

The Wonder of Leo Lionni: Increasing Comprehension with Prediction Statements

This lesson focuses on the strategy of "wonder" statements, asking students to stop, think, and write about what may be happening in the text periodically as they read a story.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners

Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson

Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension

Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.

 

Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose

Stapleless Book

The Stapleless Book can be used for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating vocabulary booklets . . . the possibilities are endless!