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My Family: Writing Practice
My Family: Writing Practice
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My Family: Writing Practice
Family first! This lesson encourages students to think about families and how diverse families can be.
1st grade
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Feel the Beat
Feel the Beat
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Feel the Beat
Poetry and dance come together in this fun lesson! After reading a book of poems about dance moves, students create their own poem and dance performances.
1st grade
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Dancing Dreams
Dancing Dreams
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Dancing Dreams
Let's dance our dreams! In this lesson, students read a story about a girl going after her dream of being a ballerina before composing dances to represent their own dreams.
1st grade
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Author Study: Faith Ringgold
Author Study: Faith Ringgold
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Author Study: Faith Ringgold
This engaging lesson teaches students about the famous author Faith Ringgold. Students will explore two pieces of literature, comparing and contrasting story elements, then write opinion pieces to illustrate which book they liked best.
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Winter Dance
Winter Dance
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Winter Dance
What do books and dances have in common? They can both be used to tell stories and express emotions. In this lesson, students will learn to represent scenes from a story through dance.
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Story vs. Poem
Story vs. Poem
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Story vs. Poem
What makes a poem a poem? And what makes a story a story? In this lesson, students learn to distinguish between different types of texts while analyzing the sentences and words they encounter.
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Sentence Cafe
Sentence Cafe
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Sentence Cafe
It’s time to make sentences! At the Sentence Cafe, words come together to build stories. Get ready to learn about different parts of speech such as conjunctions, possessive pronouns, articles, and more in this hands-on lesson.
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What Happened?
What Happened?
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What Happened?
Help your students' story telling abilities grow with this lesson that helps them recount what happened in a story and has them point out key details.
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Leafy Rhymes
Leafy Rhymes
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Leafy Rhymes
Your students will love to see rhyming trees! They will manipulate letters to form different words that have the same rhyme. This lesson also integrates science and could be used to discuss parts of a plant or a tree.
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Sight Word Salad
Sight Word Salad
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Sight Word Salad
Your students will “eat up” this salad of sight words! In this lesson, your students will practice recognizing words that are tricky to spell.
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Copy Cat
Copy Cat
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Copy Cat
Play a fun and interesting game with your students in this lesson! Your students will copy words that you write to become more familiar with new vocabulary!
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Reading & Writing
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Read with Beads
Read with Beads
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Read with Beads
Build words with this fun lesson for emergent readers. Using beads and pipe cleaners, your students will enjoy working with manipulatives to create three- and four-letter words!
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Play It Again
Play It Again
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Play It Again
Merging art, creativity, and literature, this lesson is sure to be a crowd favorite. Students will practice their puppetry as they create plays to retell stories in this drama-filled lesson.
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Master Decoders
Master Decoders
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Master Decoders
Being a fluent reader means being able to use different strategies to figure out unknown words. In this lesson, students learn how to use pictures and context clues.
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Fun With Blends
Fun With Blends
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Fun With Blends
Give your students the extra motivation they need to master consonant blends. Hook them in with this exciting lesson on the L blend. Expose them to beginning blends such as FL, SL, CL, GL, and BL.
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How to Do School
How to Do School
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How to Do School
Every young child (and adult!) loves being an expert in something. By helping students realize that they are experts in many areas, their confidence and writing will expand by leaps and bounds.
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Exploring Nature
Exploring Nature
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Exploring Nature
Allow students to make sense of the world through hands-on activities and play. This movement-centered lesson will let your students explore parts of nature that make up our great Earth.
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Math With Bears
Math With Bears
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Math With Bears
This bear-y fun lesson will help your students understand addition and subtraction and reward their efforts with a sweet treat!
1st grade
Math
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Predict It
Predict It
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Predict It
Engage students in reading grade-level texts by making and testing predictions. Your students will be excited to read on to find out if their predictions are correct!
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Shoe, Graph, Shoe!
Shoe, Graph, Shoe!
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Shoe, Graph, Shoe!
Ready to move your feet? Get your students moving with a graphing activity that will knock their socks off! Using a bit of “sole” searching, your students will collect, graph, and interpret data on shoes.
1st grade
Math
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It’s My Opinion
It’s My Opinion
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It’s My Opinion
Forming and sharing opinions is a vital part of self-expression. Use the following lesson to help your students write opinions and support them with three convincing reasons.
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New Word Writing
New Word Writing
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New Word Writing
Help your first graders learn word formation with this lesson that has them create a new word and write a story about it.
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SSSHHHH….
SSSHHHH….
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SSSHHHH….
Students blend sounds all the time when they speak, but a whole new level of ssshhh is possible through selected literature and picture sorts!
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Class Pets
Class Pets
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Class Pets
Have your students been begging for a class pet? Combine opinion letter writing with science as your students try to convince you to get the PERFECT class pet.
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All About Sharks!
All About Sharks!
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All About Sharks!
Do your students live for Shark Week? Help them prepare with this lesson that teaches them about all the different kinds of sharks and has them color and create their own sea!
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