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Language of Science: Earth Day Celebrations!

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This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In “Earth Day Celebrations” - a brief Listen and Read nonfiction story - students learn how children in New York City, Costa Rica, South Korea, and Russia celebrate Earth Day, a holiday that honors our natural environment. The reading activity includes text, images, and audio, so students can read along while listening to a narrator. At the end of the story, a Sound It Out section lets students listen to these vocabulary words a second time: "parade," "trees," "drums," and "recycling."

Material Type: Interactive

Author: Scholastic

Popcorn Words

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Through this lesson, students will be exposed to a variety of basic sight words or "popcorn" words. First they will watch a variety of videos to be introduced to the words. Then they will play a fun game on popcorn words. To end the lessons, students will identify their popcorn words.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Kristin Contant

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Sight Words- Personalized Learning

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Kindergarten Standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy, RF.K.3.C   Read common high-frequency words by sightLearning Objective for student: I can read my sight words!This tool provides 7 lists of kindergarten sight words that can be color-coded to keep track of student growth. Checklists for assessment and progress monitoring are provided as well as cards to be hole punched for each individual child. The teacher can use the activities within this resource for small groups that are working on learning sight words. The intervention strategy, Simultaneous Oral Spelling, is also provided with step-by-step directions and should be used with any student who struggles to learn sight words through the typical reading and building activities. 

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: LYDIA CRYSTAL

Clifford Interactive Storybook: Here, Clifford

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Students can practice their reading skills as they read stories with high-frequency words; interact with the computer to create new text; understand that changing one word in a sentence can change the meaning of the entire sentence; recognize consonant sound-spellings; distinguish easily confused letter pairs; and recognize common short and long vowel sounds as they participate in this interactive reading of Clifford's beloved stories.

Material Type: Interactive

Clifford Interactive Storybook: Emily Elizabeth Goes to School

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Students can practice their reading skills as they read stories with high-frequency words; interact with the computer to create new text; understand that changing one word in a sentence can change the meaning of the entire sentence; recognize consonant sound-spellings; distinguish easily confused letter pairs; and recognize common short and long vowel sounds as they participate in this interactive reading of Clifford's beloved stories.

Material Type: Interactive

Make Pairs of Sight Words

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For this online interactive, students recognize and recall dolch sight words by flipping the cards and making a pair of the matching words. This activity is desgined to sharpen students' memory skills and build their vocabulary which aids in improving their reading skills.

Material Type: Interactive

Author: TurtleDiary.com

Myself and Others, Chapter 1: How Do We Get Along With Each Other?

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The Kindergarten text is meant to be explored visually by students like a traditional “big book”. Some teachers may also want their students to have a copy of the book as a digital text on an iPad, Chromebook, or other digital device. Either way, the way students interact with this book is different from other MI Open Book materials.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Annie Whitlock, Carol Bacack Egbo, Cindy Frakes, Lisa Abramowski, Lisa Gutowski, Sandy Freeland

No, David

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In this lesson, students listen to a story about David whose mom always says no. Students follow David as he jumps on his bed, walks mud through the house, and breaks plant pots. Students describe how civics skills would have improved David's behavior.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

David Goes to School

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In this lesson, students listen to a story about David manages to fill each school day with trouble. Students learn how behavior does not always reflect understanding of civic skills and values.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Shippin' Shapes

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For this fun interactive, students help their jelly friends package and sort out shapes! Students must match the name to the correct shape while avoiding accidents and angering the manager. Please note you will need to have flash enabled on your browser to use the resource.

Material Type: Interactive

Author: Fuel the Brain