Construct-a-Word
(View Complete Item Description)Using Construct-a-Word, students learn letter-sound correspondence by combining a beginning letter or blend to a word ending to create words.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
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Doing Our Jobs
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will learn that there are rules to be followed or jobs to be done in the classroom. Students will also learn how to listen and speak to others.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Don't Be Scared of Bats
(View Complete Item Description)An interactive nonfiction book Don't Be Scared of Bats that students can read independently or listen as it is read to them. Students can compare illustrations and information presented in the text.
Material Type: Interactive, Lesson, Reading
Draw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing
(View Complete Item Description)For this lesson, students read the wordless picture book, Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola telling the story themselves as they read the pictures. Next, they draw a picture of a person doing something, and tell the story of their picture. Working at their own pace, they continue the story by drawing pictures showing the problem and solution. When all the pictures are complete, students put them in order and write or dictate the story that goes with them. Finally, students create an accordion book from their drawings and text.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Exploring Sets through Math-Related Book Pairs
(View Complete Item Description)Students read two math-related books used in the lesson to give real-world contexts to the strategy of grouping objects to be counted. Students, then, explore their school and home environments to find and represent their own examples of sets. In the culminating activity, students create pages for a collaborative class book of sets.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Expressing Thoughts & Feelings
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students will explore five different "Discovery Buckets." These buckets will give them opportunities to practice expressing both their thoughts and feelings.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
GEDB Needs and Wants: What Are Needs and Wants? (Lesson 1 of 5)
(View Complete Item Description)Analyze the differences between needs and wants.This lesson was developed by Michelle Allen as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
GEDB Oh the Feet You'll Meet-Shoes: Needs and Wants (Lesson 2 of 5)
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson helps students recognize the perspective of others, explores the negative aspects of not having shoes, and reviews the concepts of needs and wants. It is also where the shoe collection project is introduced to the class.This lesson was developed by James Agner as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students explore books and magazines for words that have the "ig" rime, in addition to brainstorming their own words. Furthermore, assessment is included as students incorporate learned words in context and isolation.
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Going on a Shape Hunt: Integrating Math and Literacy
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea of shapes through a read-aloud session with an appropriate book. They then use models to learn the names of shapes, work together and individually to locate shapes in their real-world environment, practice spelling out the names of shapes they locate, and reflect in writing on the process.
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Guess What’s in the Bag: A Language-based Activity
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students practice describing a series of objects. They then take turns reaching into a bag to describe a hidden object, using only their sense of touch. After five clues are given, the other students try to guess what is in the bag, based on the descripive language used by their classmates. Finally, after the hidden object is guessed or revealed, students discuss additional ways to describe the object.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Hop, Skip, and Jump
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will learn why and how bugs move to obtain what they need. Students will learn the anatomy of an insect. They will create fantasy drawings of a moment in the life of a bug. They will describe what is happening in their drawing to the class.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
I Grow
(View Complete Item Description)The "I Grow" activities in this lesson will help students understand the abstract concept of time passing. Students will listen as the book When I Was Little by Jamie Lee Curtis is read aloud. They will then write and illustrate a book about themselves using a predictable pattern of text such as, "When I was little, I ____________. Now I ____________."
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words, Body Parts Game
(View Complete Item Description)In this game, students indicate if a spoken word rhymes with another word. Students also say another word that rhymes with a spoken word.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Ins and Outs of Tops and Bottoms
(View Complete Item Description)Using nursery rhymes and a finger play, students will learn about spatial relationships and commonly used position words. Curriculum extension activities/adaptations/integration include common objects in the classroom.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Integrating Language Arts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will read Laura Joffe Numeroff's 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' to combine word-skill work with prediction and sequencing practice. Students learn about cause-effect relationships during a shared reading of the book and then complete a cloze exercise that uses context and initial consonant clues. Students then create story circles that display the events of the story and use these circles to retell the story to a peer. Finally, the students compose their own stories featuring themselves in the role of the mouse.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Insect Models
(View Complete Item Description)This 5-E lesson introduces the use of nonfiction materials from the library with a maker component. Students willexamine nonfiction materials,draw diagrams,make models,ask questions of others,and explain their work.
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Thanksgiving Literacy Fun!
(View Complete Item Description)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.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
Super Why! | The Three Little Pigs
(View Complete Item Description)Using this Super WHY! vidseo episode, students see the importance of making friends using the story of The "Three Little Pigs". Students also have the opportunity to practice the alphabet, identify the letters W, O, L and F, rhyme using words from the "ALL" family and use opposites to change the meaning of the story. Students follow along as Pig is building towers with blocks and Jill keeps knocking them down. The Super Readers fly into "The Three Little Pigs" story to have a discussion with the Big Bad Wolf, who certainly knows a thing or two about knocking things down. When all the huffing and puffing is done, Pig learns an important lesson about friendship.
Material Type: Demonstration
Exploring Seasonal Apple Trees
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students study how an apple tree changes through the seasons usign imaginative role-play, listening and responding to read alouds, and completing a colorful craft.
Material Type: Lesson Plan