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.

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.

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.

In this lesson, students will read the folk tale Jack and the Beanstalk and discuss the word giant and its beginning sound. Students then create their own lists of words that begin with the same sound. Then, students are introduced to words with the soft g sound and create a new list of words with this beginning sound. As a culminating activity, students work individually or in groups to categorize animal names into groups according to their beginning g sound.

In this lesson, letter-sound correspondences are taught within a meaningful context in an explicit, systematic, and extensive manner. This lesson uses onset-rime analogy to present word families and spelling patterns. An onset is the consonant letter before the vowel in a given word or syllable, and a rime is the vowel and consonants that follow the vowel in a given word or syllable. Thus, in the word bill, the onset is the letter b and the rime is the letters ill. Furthermore, this lesson supports cooperative and integrative learning where students and teacher learn together and carry out tasks collaboratively.

In this lesson, students learn to identify written words with similar endings by singing and reciting nursery rhymes. Students begin by reciting Humpty Dumpty, identifying two words with similar ending sounds, and creating their own lists of words with the same ending sound. Students repeat this procedure with words from Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater and Jack and Jill. Finally, students access a website to identify the word families featured in other nursery rhymes and then create an illustration and text based on their favorite nursery rhyme.

An interactive activity that supports critical thinking and problem solving while also building students' comprehension and spelling skills. Students will complete puzzles based on popular children's books.

In this lesson plan, Students will discuss the spending decisions of the animals in the story "Yard Sale" by James Stevenson. Students will learn a decision-making process and how to identify their opportunity cost.

This activity is intended for use with the lesson "Yard Sale." In this lesson plan, students will discuss the spending decisions of the animals in the story "Yard Sale" by James Stevenson. Students will learn a decision-making process and how to identify their opportunity cost.

This activity is intended for use with the lesson "Yard Sale." In this lesson plan, students will discuss the spending decisions of the animals in the story "Yard Sale" by James Stevenson. Students will learn a decision-making process and how to identify their opportunity cost.

This activity is intended for use with the lesson "Yard Sale." In this lesson plan, students will discuss the spending decisions of the animals in the story "Yard Sale" by James Stevenson. Students will learn a decision-making process and how to identify their opportunity cost.

This activity is intended for use with the lesson "Yard Sale." In this lesson plan, students will discuss the spending decisions of the animals in the story "Yard Sale" by James Stevenson. Students will learn a decision-making process and how to identify their opportunity cost.

This activity is intended for use with the lesson "Yard Sale." In this lesson plan, students will discuss the spending decisions of the animals in the story "Yard Sale" by James Stevenson. Students will learn a decision-making process and how to identify their opportunity cost.

This resource is intended for use with the lesson "Yard Sale." In this lesson plan, students will discuss the spending decisions of the animals in the story "Yard Sale" by James Stevenson. Students will learn a decision-making process and how to identify their opportunity cost.