In this lesson, a combination of children's literature, learning centers, and activities focus on learning about the letter m. Students will learn about phonics by participating in an integrated array of activities, including reading, writing, mathematics, music, art, and technology.

In this unit, students will become aware of the importance of retelling and essential story elements through teacher modeling and progressive levels of independent work. Students demonstrate their understanding of stories through the use of online interactive graphic organizers and present story elements of an individual book through a book talk.

In this lesson, students learn about animal habitats. Students will play a "Concentration" type card game, matching animals with their "place to be."

In this lesson, students will demonstrate an understanding of the characters, setting, and plot in the story by creating costumes, props, and sets for a Readers Theatre performance.

Students will learn how to do basic research on animals that they have read about in a Jan Brett book.

After reading books about different cultures (the differences/similarities in language, dress, homes, food, art), the teacher and class will discuss how people in different cultures dress differently, eat different foods or foods that are made in different ways, live in different homes, and have different celebrations.  The teacher could make a simple slide show or get some images from the internet to show students different cultures and their dress, foods, celebrations, etc.  The higher level students will read Don’t Laugh at Me by Steve Seskin and Allen Shamblin and participate in a seminar discussion.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

This lesson integrates literature with science by reading "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble." Students will also learn to describe rocks by using different physical properties.

In this introductory critical literacy lesson, students will consider the perspectives of central but silent characters in the picture book Stevie, by John Steptoe. They will look at the story from these characters’ points of view and give voice to their thoughts and feelings, thereby gaining much deeper understandings of the story and realizing that every story truly gives just a partial account of what happened.

Read "Sneezy the Snowman" to students and discuss cause and effects throughout the story. Allow children to complete the craft "my snowman melted because___." 

identify and discuss elements of a storydiscuss and understand new vocabulary wordsparticipate in activities in a group and individually

This is a resource that can be used for whole group, small group, independent practice to help students monitor their comprehension. Teachers can adapt it and make it fit the needs of their classroom. It has suggestions for how to use/integrate the resource, but as mentioned above, can be adapted to teach a variety of RL standards. 

In this lesson students create large story maps to retell and familiar text. Students record themselves and place QR codes along the story map. Students then code Sphero Robots, dressed as main characters, to make their way through each part of the story.

A great resource to introduce, review, or prepare students for the Thanksgiving holiday. This is an activity students should be able to do completely independently and some follow-up/partner/whole-group activities are also suggested. Students will need an iPad to do the activity.

In this activity, students will click and drag to retell the story of The Three Little Pigs. On the second slide, students will use details to describe the Big Bad Wolf. 

In this lesson, student will listen to the book, "A New Coat for Anna". Students will learn about resources, scarcity, costs, trade/bartering, and decision making through a young girl, Anna, whose mother wanted to buy her a coat but did not have the money. Students will explain how families have needs and wants and various ways in which people earn and use materials, such as money, for goods and services. Students will see how supply and demand effects the choices families and communities make.

This is a short video introduction for students about what makes up a fairy tale and fractured fairy tale. The website PBS Learning Media has several resources including games and videos of fairy tales and fables.

In this lesson, students will see how the setting influences a story in several ways: the plot, the characters, and the tone. Students will use the illustrations and details to describe the setting of a fiction story. Students will practice writing narratives using complete sentences and visual displays that help to clarify ideas.