Be a Detective-Is It a Letter or a Word?
(View Complete Item Description)In this beginning of the year activity, students will use a word/letter finder to identify and differentiate letters and words.
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Guided Reading Modules
(View Complete Item Description)Comprehension Strategy Module Templates
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Comprehension Interactive-Kindergarten
(View Complete Item Description)For this online interactive, students practice their comprehension skills by listening to a story and answering questions about the story. There are several stories to choose from with four questions at the end of each story.
Material Type: Interactive
Stellaluna - Teaching RL standards in 1st Grade
(View Complete Item Description)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.
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Jennie's Hat
(View Complete Item Description)Students design a paper hat and participate in a hat parade.
Learning About the Seasons
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students learn that different seasons occur across all of North America, but that each region of North America does not experience the same weather patterns.
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Exploring the Seasons
(View Complete Item Description)In these activities students will understand seasons and the changes they bring. Students will learn a song about seasons and months of the year, draw and write in their science journals about the seasons to illustrate their understanding.
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Shape Hunt
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will observe their world around them to identify and construct basic geometric shapes.
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Shape Match
(View Complete Item Description)This interactive game reinforces students' knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes by having them match objects to shapes or objects to words. Students can play by memory or while seeing the objects. All cards are supported by audio instruction.
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DinoVentures: Dining With Deinosuchus
(View Complete Item Description)In this interactive activity, students match colored shapes.
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Kindergarten Mathematics Module 1, Topic C, Lesson 7
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students sort by count in vertical columns and horizontal rows (linear configurations to 5). Match to numerals on cards.
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Language of Language Arts: We're Going on a Bear Hunt
(View Complete Item Description)This book, presented in video format with accompanying lesson plans and activities, provides ELLs the opportunity to read, write, listen, speak and learn new vocabulary about a variety of language arts, mathematics and science skills including character, setting, plot sequence, patterns and research. (NOTE: You must search far down the page to find the Bear Hunt resources.)
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Language of Mathematics: Match Clocks
(View Complete Item Description)This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This short game gives students an opportunity to practice telling time. Visual cues and spoken as well as written words for the time provide language support for English learners. The game also contains a great chant-style song at the end accompanied by the changing hands of the clock which is useful for helping English language learners remember how to read the clock face.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Language of Science: Owl Babies
(View Complete Item Description)This unit plan provides activities to pair with the book "Owl Babies" by Robin Diedrichs. Connections are made to math, music, poetry, science, arts and crafts, and fine motor skills.
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1st Grade - Act. 11: Fairy Tale Riddles & Puppet Shows
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students put on a puppet show and retell fairy tales.
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1st Grade - Act. 14: Who's in Your Family
(View Complete Item Description)After reading Family by Carol A Johnson, students create a classroom graph of their family members.
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1st Grade - Act. 15: Frederick
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students illustrate a scene from a story.
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Activity Plan: Learning Food Words
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students will develop fine-motor, math, social, and language and literacy skills as they engage in discussion and activities to help them idenitfy words that describe food and familiar food products.
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Alpha Pig's Cake
(View Complete Item Description)In this video, students join Super Readers as they help bake a cake by following directions. Students learn that the steps to baking are to get the ingredients, measure and mix, and then bake. With the assistance of Alpha Pig, the Super Readers are able to use their spelling skills to find the ingredients necessary to make the cake. Alpha Pig is able to identify the different ingredients on the shelf by looking for the first letter of the word.
Material Type: Demonstration
The Biggest Snowball Fight! Lesson Plan
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will read the book THE BIGGEST SNOWBALL FIGHT! and engage in a variety of activities to develop phonemic awareness skills, reading, and math skills.
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